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in thread PMplanet has a new home

ambrus Don't think it can be a "cache" issue regarding delay from login to appearing in Other Users as I have been logged in for a couple of hours and appear to come and go from Other Users during that time, eg at the time of writing I do not appear in Other Users.

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Re^4: PMplanet has a new home
by theorbtwo (Prior) on Feb 03, 2010 at 16:22 UTC

    "Other users" defines you being online by activity, not by having hit "log in" but not "log out". I never hit log out, but I haven't been here continiously for the last 10 years, either.

    (Wow, it's really been 10 years?)

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      "Other users" defines you being online by activity"

      What exactly constitutes activity?

      As just having a page open in a browser does not seem to be sufficient to keep a user showing in both "Other Users" and therefore showing on the map.

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        What exactly constitutes activity?

        Requesting a page from the server.

        As the HTTP protocol is stateless, the server simply cannot tell whether you've kept the page open in the browser after having fetched it.

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