Re: Online Now
Reply #1 –
I do like your idea, and think it's pretty interesting, but I guess I'm pretty old school in that I like the who's online list. Whether or not someone knows any of the names of the people when they scroll down to see who's online; if there are a bunch of members that are online, it may help to make newer members feel that it may be an active community- thus maybe wanting them to become more engaged themselves.
In my opinion, when I log onto a site where the list of online members is disabled, it just feels sort of cold and almost as if I'm on the forum all by myself.
Re: Online Now
Reply #2 –
Got to agree with both messages, lol
Re: Online Now
Reply #3 –
That looks like a rather subjective thing: what I usually do to guess if a board is active or not is a quick look at the dates of the topics, if they all are from ages ago it means the board is dead, otherwise is active.
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Reply #4 –
The idea would actually make who's online more prominent. I would put it on on every page since it's only loaded when you click on it via JS.