most members ever see 136

[Pred]

just logged on, and weekends are normally dead on acorn, however just seen
136 members and 470 guests online!

136 members!
never seen that many regulars on here!

is there a party going on somewhere on forum i dont know about ?

 

[Ashton]

Oh shit, who told him about the party....

 

[mbignell]

Must be a good one, 154 members and 575 Guest, why wasn't i invited ?

 

[retired_member13]

I think it's that the "Logged in" period has been extended so users stay active for longer - if you look at the last activity time for the people listed as being online now it now stretches back to 11am this morning - normally it's only XX minutes maximum.

See here http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/online.php?order=desc&sort=time&pp=200&page=1&who=members for the logged in members ordered by last activity time.

Might well be wrong though.

 

[Admin]

Yes I extended the period as people asked me to, this is a consequence.

aDMIN

 

[boxerdog]

so whos online now and who isnt, last activity goes back hours for some, plus i liked to click on "Domainers online" and see what people are up to.

 

[fish]

so whos online now and who isnt, last activity goes back hours for some, plus i liked to click on "Domainers online" and see what people are up to.

ditto. Now however (with admin administered new settings) it is not a true representation of who is currently using the forum.

 

[Admin]

I've put it back to how it was and will see if there is another way to allow people to stay logged into VB.

Admin

 

[jimm]

What I do is default the remember me tick box to on.
The implications are that the session will never time out which may be an issue on a shared computer, but then if the user is on a shared computer they should logout before leaving it anyway.

 

[Admin]

What I do is default the remember me tick box to on.
The implications are that the session will never time out which may be an issue on a shared computer, but then if the user is on a shared computer they should logout before leaving it anyway.

Thanks for the input but does this do it though? Members are telling me it differs by browser....

I must admit I use Chrome and it never times out..

 

[jimm]

Yep, works on all my forums. Only exception is people with corrupt cookies, people who log out (as that destroys the cookie at logout) or people who untick the remember me.

 

[rjs_essex]

I can't even remember the last time I logged in to the forum!... The 'remember me' tick box works like a charm!

Rich

 

[willbon]

Firefox on mac never times out. Also forumrunner on iPhone doesn't time out with old settings.

 

[Admin]

Can people with the time-out issue please try the tick-box and let me know if it's a fix.

Thanks

Admin