People who don't think this is a problem must be those people who never look at other users. For the people that do care, these permanent residents do diminish its value.

The proposed solutions so far, seem are a bit extreme to me:

  1. Logging in as an XML ticker makes you completely invisible, for whatever you do, be it surfing on the site or talking on the chatterbox. It is behaving less than ideal.
  2. Making a special nodetype for the fullpage chat frame pages, as castaway proposes, would behave perfectly, but it seems like a lot of work to me. So I think it won't happen.
The solution I'd like to propose appears to be less intrusive, but I don't know how hard it actually is to implement, as I'm not a pmdevil. It is that a special parameter could be added, "autoreload" (or maybe something with a little bit of a shorter name), which would have to be recognized by the site, and which would make a page fetch, for any page, appear to be anonymous.

If you then add this parameter to the URL for the refresh for the pages in Fullpage Chat, then these pages fetches that are automatically done by the browser, would be ignored for other users, while manually loaded pages, would be visible. It seems perfect.

In reply to Re: Users who don't log out by bart
in thread Users who don't log out by diotalevi

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