Posted by J.O. Aho on 12/31/05 04:20

spo wrote:

> Above that, there is another section, entitled 'Members Who Visited
> Today', which is self-explanatory, but within this section, there is the
> line 'Members online now' - there is often a list of members showing
> there, but they are not presently on the site. What is this line telling
> us exactly?

What is done is to look when a user last time loaded a page on the site (this
is temporarily stored) and he block does display those who has been there X
minutes ago until now, the X can vary depending on settings.


> Is it possible that the site is 'aware' of a member being connected to
> the 'net, even if he is NOT on the forum?

No, it aren't able to do this.



//Aho

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