Remove who's online feature...

[Bulldog]

I've noticed since the Who's online hack has been added the forums have gone VERY slow. This hack is only a Beta and could be the reason for this. I know when I pinged my UBB after I added this feature, pings were up by 50ms. This hack isn't that useful, and I know it would take a long time to remove, but for our modems sake can't it be deleted?

Sign all those in favour.

[MarkG]

ping doesnt have anything to do with the actual speed of the machine, but with it's connection to the internet...

[phoenixcager]

I kind of like the feature actually. It let's me know who's likely to respond to a post I make.

I also like seeing my own name in that section. It's a pity that it only shows up on it when I post from home. At the office, it doesn't work. I think it's 'cos they disabled javascript.

[Lazarus & the Gimp]

I didn't like the feature at all, but I was relieved to discover that it could be turned off at will. I haven't noticed any slowdown.

[Builder]

It takes more time to load --> I'm for!

[mark13]

Nope, no slowdown for my computer (not noticed anyway). Anyway, I quite like the feature, it let's you know whether someone is likely to reply or not.

[The Call of Snapcase]

Just out of curiosity, how do you turn it off?

(add me to the slows down sites/rather useless crowd. You should add the spellchecker hack instead.)

[Caesar the Great]

ROFLMGDAO!!!

I don't care either way...

ROFLMGDAO!!!

[Urban Ranger]

Bulldog,

It's Perl, which means once it's loaded in memory, it runs like lightning. The problem is when the script gets loaded initially. But Markos is right, ping usually isn't a reliable indicator of your machine loading since you get all that junk in between. The only possible exception is when you have a direct connection to your server, but then you don't need ping to find out the load

[MidKnight Lament]

I like it too. As long as it's not causing any huge slow-down I'd prefer it was kept.

[Bulldog]

So how do you turn it off?

[Locutus]

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So how do you turn it off?
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Click on 'preferences' in the top right corner of the main forum page.

[Sophanthro]

Haha. Funny stuff Bulldog

Slows down the server

[Makeo]

hehe

[MarkG]

something related: you can hide yourself from others on the listing, but the admins can ALWAYS see you on the listing....