Re: Other Users List

The idle time to drop off the other users list is set to 3 minutes. But the fact that you do not show immediately after you log in is that when the page is being 'compiled' your "last here" time is the one from the, well, last time you were here, so on the next page hit, that time will reflect the time of your log-in, if it is within the 3 minutes limit, you will show on the Other Users nodelet, if it's not, you will on the next page hit within a 3 minutes time.

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Re: Re: Other Users List by theorbtwo (Prior) on Oct 27, 2002 at 01:03 UTC
There's a little more to it then that: the Other Users list is cached -- it's expensive to create (you have to query the entire users table to find those who have done somthing lately), and gets loaded a lot (because it's a default nodelet). Because of this, it's only updated every 5 (?) minutes. Warning: Unless otherwise stated, code is untested. Do not use without understanding. Code is posted in the hopes it is useful, but without warranty. All copyrights are relinquished into the public domain unless otherwise stated. I am not an angel. I am capable of error, and err on a fairly regular basis. If I made a mistake, please let me know (such as by replying to this node).	[reply]

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Re: Re: Other Users List
by theorbtwo (Prior) on Oct 27, 2002 at 01:03 UTC

There's a little more to it then that: the Other Users list is cached -- it's expensive to create (you have to query the entire users table to find those who have done somthing lately), and gets loaded a lot (because it's a default nodelet). Because of this, it's only updated every 5 (?) minutes.

Warning: Unless otherwise stated, code is untested. Do not use without understanding. Code is posted in the hopes it is useful, but without warranty. All copyrights are relinquished into the public domain unless otherwise stated. I am not an angel. I am capable of error, and err on a fairly regular basis. If I made a mistake, please let me know (such as by replying to this node).

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