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Active ? Anyone

kaoskaos New
edited October 2009 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8
Is anyone active like mark and member's can you add an online list as i see there is a plugin for it as it help's when seeing how many people are online :)

Comments

  • MarkMark Vanilla Staff
    I'm personally not a fan of "who's online" plugins as they can actually be detrimental to the health of a community.
  • kaoskaos New
    Ah ok cool
  • garymardellgarymardell ✭
    @Mark I won't take offense. :)
  • LincLinc Admin
    @Mark could you elaborate? I'd love to hear your thoughts on that one.
  • SubJunkSubJunk ✭✭
    @Mark I agree that with inactive communities they can be harmful, but in active communities it can be fun
  • MarkMark Vanilla Staff
    @Lincoln - Subjunk got what I was hinting at. It all comes down to appearances. A forum might not have more than 1 person on it at a time, but that doesn't mean it's not a popular forum - A who's online plugin might make new people think that a forum like that isn't worth participating in since "there's no-one around right now".

    At the opposing end of things, there are forums that have 50+ people on at a time, and who's online _can_ be fun on those - but if you've got that many active users, I always find it's just more fun to be jumping from discussion to discussion playing constant catch up with all of the conversations. Personal preference is all.
  • SubJunkSubJunk ✭✭
    @Mark - Playing catch-up is really fun. Sometimes I spend wayyy more time doing that than I should.
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