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No displays of who is online, nothing
complex. Just something somewhere on
the front page that discreetly tells you that
there are X users online.
Like I said in
the summary, this is because I want to
know if theres even anyone around to
potentially read a new idea I post.
active users
active_20users
by Boab Kiddley. Not the same. [calum, Jun 28 2005]
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Hey, I can call my own ideas useless
thank you very much. Have you never
heard of a <plug>Time Blimp?</plug> |
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I like the one with the Croissant Nunchuks, but I'm cheap like that. |
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This idea is a good one too[+] |
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what UB said. always a pleasure to see kaz. |
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I'm here now, but I don't have IM coz I'm at work. I do have IM at home, but it's not always on coz I forget. Anyway, my HB screen-name isn't the same as my IM name.
If I just annotated something, I'm probably online. Plus, I might be online even if I haven't just annotated something.
Does that help? |
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I'm pretty sure I'm online. Either that or
you're all suffering from mass
hallucination. |
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How many, I wonder, log in but are not active. With broadband connections I can't see much reason to log off (is that a mistaken idea?). Then the display of who is online becomes who hasn't logged off. |
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I'll bet few log off. I don't. |
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Presence indication usually requires an IM like connection or, at the very least, logic that logs users off of a site after a set amount of inactivity so that the act of logging on can be used to indicate presence. |
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I log in about once a year, if I have to clear my cookies to make something work that's broken. No way do I want to log in everytime I take a look. But it can be done automatically; a news site I frequent occaisionally pops my user profile up on the online list after the first article I read, without my doing anything. |
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I'm not online right now, but I'll probably check in later. |
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//I think [kaz] has a pretty good idea how the place works. You might like to sneak a peek at [kaz]'s profile page. // |
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Heh... this was the person asking bakers to put more info on profile pages. Don't think it'll help much if you don't look. |
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Could you need more information that a
halfbaker's geek code? |
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Simple HTML-based websites like the halfbakery work based on individual requests, not based on steady connections. It's less like a phone call, more like passing notes in class. So, you'd have to come up with a pattern that means that someone is "reading the site," say, X accesses in Y minutes. |
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More philosophically, this would be a feature that enhances the social aspects of the halfbakery - makes it feel more like a place that people hang out at to socialize, less like a database. Basically, it would push us further on the way towards becoming a chat room. And I can't stand the bloody things. |
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In short, if you see me implement this, it would be safe to conclude that alien brain slugs have taken control of my body. |
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And that is far worse than the domestic kind. |
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Thinking about it, I know that I'm
logged on at a couple of different
locations so really using my own idea, it
would appear that I'd be highlighting
the flaws in it. Ah well. |
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fishin' supplies shops might have them. |
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I don't view animation so your drawings will never grace my lines of sight. |
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