Time Spent ONLINE for VB5

[mito22]

Very interesting mod on old version of VB....

https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=238154

But nothing on 5....


Glenn?

[mito22]

Anyone?

[glennrocksvb]

This looks like a complicated mod to implement. How can it accurately record the time spent online if the user became idle and left their computer or phone open while in the forum and then their user session timed out?

[mito22]

This looks like a complicated mod to implement. How can it accurately record the time spent online if the user became idle and left their computer or phone open while in the forum and then their user session timed out?

When the user is in ONLINE LIST..... the mod count.... when he go offline or hidden, don't count

[glennrocksvb]

Yeah but the tricky part is when a user goes offline due to inactivity. A user also goes offline when he logs out. That's fine, the server would know about it and can do something when that happens. But if a user doesn't log out and just becomes idle and his session times out on its own, the server wouldn't know it since the browser does not inform the server. It's a passive action of the user that the server would not have any knowledge about.

[Snowhog]

It's a passive action of the user that the server would not have any knowledge about.

Which was likely true in pre-vBulletin 5, so the function then that did the time tracking would have had the same limitation. That just means that the 'time online in Forum' wouldn't be entirely correct. But all users would be affected by this, so all would be treated equally.

[mito22]

Which was likely true in pre-vBulletin 5, so the function then that did the time tracking would have had the same limitation. That just means that the 'time online in Forum' wouldn't be entirely correct. But all users would be affected by this, so all would be treated equally.

Sure.... and it's a funny stats that the users appreciate so much!

[mito22]

glennrocksvb?