The only concern I have in using this product is it might make a forum appear inactive to guests. If guests can see who's online then it serves no purpose to block registered usergroups.

I'm sure there's a way around this but I'm not quite sure what it is.

That was fast! Thank you. Now they all show as offline which is great. Is there any way to turn that useless little hover message off totally?

Guests cannot see hidden users, nor can they see users who have chosen to be invisible either.

You probably wouldn't want to have a large number of users as hidden with this product. However, there are more indicators of an active community besides the number of users seen to be online at any given moment, such as new threads/posts, etc. :)

This won't hide who has visited within the last 24 hours either.

Yes, but you'd likely want to do that for everyone, rather than just the users affected by this product, so that no one stands out as being "different."

Do you want me to add an option to turn that off for everyone?

Yes please! Or just let me know how to do it. My members consider it an invasion of their privacy to have their online status showing so I am trying to turn it off everywhere, zap every trace of it (except for Admins/Mods of course).

Update - Version 1.3.1:

• Added option to turn off online status tooltip from all memberaction dropdown links.

That was fast! I can't believe how responsive you are. Thank you again.

I feel really dumb asking this but what is the ' online status tooltip' and where are the 'memberaction dropdowns'. I've set your last setting to yes and no but don't see any difference. I can still see the little box that says "x is offline now". I hate to bother you with this but really appreciate your responsiveness.

On edit: I should add that I was looking on the postbit legacy if that helps

This last change was pretty simple to implement. :)

A tooltip is handled by an HTML element's "alt" and/or "title" attribute. It is the informative popup that you get when you hover your mouse cursor over an element with such attribute(s) defined.

The member action dropdowns are the popup menus that appear when you click a username in certain places, such as the last poster of threads you see on the forum home page, or the username in postbits.

The tooltip on the usernames is what the latest setting will turn off. If you choose to turn off the tooltip, then hovering your mouse cursor over a username with the memberaction dropdown associated with it, there will be no tooltip.

Can you post a screenshot of exactly what it is you want disabled?

Okay, I think I know what you're talking about now...

Update - Version 1.3.2:

• Amended option to turn off online status tooltip from all memberaction dropdown links to include online status indicators in postbits.

I think what I'm talking about is the tooltip then. Unfortunately, I can't take a screenshot because the minute I hit another key to take the screenshot, the message disappears. I'm currently logged in as a normal user, not an Admin. When I put my cursor over the little gray circle button next to the name, it returns the text "(name) is online" - the same way it works here when you hover over the green online status button next to a user's name.