Re^4: PMplanet has a new home

[theorbtwo]

"Other users" defines you being online by activity, not by having hit "log in" but not "log out". I never hit log out, but I haven't been here continiously for the last 10 years, either.

(Wow, it's really been 10 years?)

[Gavin]

"Other users" defines you being online by activity"

What exactly constitutes activity?

As just having a page open in a browser does not seem to be sufficient to keep a user showing in both "Other Users" and therefore showing on the map.

[almut]

What exactly constitutes activity?

Requesting a page from the server.

As the HTTP protocol is stateless, the server simply cannot tell whether you've kept the page open in the browser after having fetched it.

[Gavin]

almut That also answers some other questions, thank you.

For example now I know how this could be done

It's just a matter of loops!