invisible for real

[VaaKo]

let's say I have set myself to be invisible, no one in the forum can see me online, however, when the users look at:

Currently Active Users: 16 (13 members, 3 guests and 0 spiders)

they can see 15 members visible, but yet it's saying 16, they will know that there is a user setting himself to be invisible.

is there a way not to count the invisible users within the online users count?

This is the reply I got at vb.com :)
There is no option to exclude invisible users from that count. However, this should be possible with a small plugin for the forumhome page. For help with this I recommend you post on www.vbulletin.org.

[Boofo]

You would also need to do it for the Who's Online, too, I think. ;)

[VaaKo]

You would also need to do it for the Who's Online, too, I think. ;)

yea, I guess so, but is it possible? (of course it is :P)
anyone has done it yet or maybe willing to do it?

[Chris M]

This will hide the number of invisible users to those who can't see invisible users... :)

Chris

[Boofo]

What about for the Who's online, too? ;)

EDIT: NM, I just looked at the plug-in. ;)

[VaaKo]

thx chris!

has it been tested before?

[Chris M]

I tested it on my forum and it appeared to work as long as you can't see invisible users - It makes sense that you can't lie about the number of invisible users if you can see them :p

Chris

[Boofo]

Chris, how could I do the same thing for certain member IDs (like mine) from everyone, whether they can see invisible users or not?

[Chris M]

Chris, how could I do the same thing for certain member IDs (like mine) from everyone, whether they can see invisible users or not?

You would have to (most likely) alter functions_online.php to remove referencing to the usergroup permissions when your userid is online :)

Upon investigation I have narrowed it to:

// ###################### Start userlocation #######################
function fetch_user_location_array($userinfo)
{
This function - There are no hooks inside the function so a file-edit is probable if not manditory :)

Chris

[aciurczak]

This will hide the number of invisible users to those who can't see invisible users... :)

Chris

Works perfectly! Thx!

[Ascor]

works good in version 3.6, big thx Chris :)

[Pamela]

This will hide the number of invisible users to those who can't see invisible users... :)

Chris

Does anyone know how to get this to work in vB 3.5.4?

Thank you!!! :)

[Masiello]

This will hide the number of invisible users to those who can't see invisible users... :)

Chris

I've installed but it can't hide the Admins number from "Whois online" module, how I can do that please?
After installed this, I show myself (Admin) are 2 users online but in real is only one (me)

[girlspeedo]

I've installed but it can't hide the Admins number from "Whois online" module, how I can do that please?
After installed this, I show myself (Admin) are 2 users online but in real is only one (me)

Did it work for you with vb 3.6? It doesn't work for me either in FroumHome or Who's Online. Can anyone help?

Thanks!

[illkeyone]

It doesn't work for me :( can anyone please help me with this?

Thanks a lot :)

(Note that I use vb.3.6.7, thanks :))

[illkeyone]

Isnt there anybody here? :(

[gutelaune]

*** installed ***

thanks

[Iguana Goddess]

This will hide the number of invisible users to those who can't see invisible users... :)

Chris

Just plugged this in on my site running 3.8.6 so far I haven't noticed any conflicts with my other modifications.