Guys:
Please stop.

I have the AJAX shoutbox and my own version of this hack on my site, except I have the shoutbox set to refresh every 10 sec, and the onlilne list set to refresh every 30 sec and I have not noticed any difference in load..

Only problem i have is my online user hack does not work with IE for some unknown reason...

I doubt it. A single ajax call, with a single tiny indexed database query, even multipled by a hundred active users, probably only amounts to one typical full page load.

A typical page refresh runs dozens of queries, and also passes much more data to the client than an ajax xml message. If you modify this hack to run only the WOL page (online.php), it would probably actually reduce server load.

one thing you could do about server loads is make an admincp setting to determine how often its refreshed. Server loads wouldn't be that bad if it was every 10 or 30 secs since meny people ain't gunna hang arround on teh index for that long.

Alternativly you could make it a manual refresh in either an on mouse over of active users or on the click of a button.

Small forum here. I've replaced names with avatars, using this hack.

My users love it.

Will "AJAX Who's Online" still work for me, updating the avatars displayed instead? That'd be hella cool.

have installed ajax whos online, was wondering if it is possible for the usernames to fade on, rather than pop on, anyone know how to do this?

cool mod, like it:)

also will u be adding to this mod?

maybe have it do the same thing but also on the viewthread and viewforum

thanks for sharing man but it didn't worked for me...

Just in case anyone's wondering, my forum's on the small side so I have less concern about server load.

That said...

As an update to this query:

I went ahead and tried it, and these hacks work GREAT together. The avatar display updates on it's own every 60 seconds, without refreshing the whole page! VERY cool indeed.

As far as server load goes, the Who's Online page (online.php) has a default auto-refresh setting (every 60 seconds) that many admins leave on... I don't see how this is much different. Compared to that, this is actually sending less data!

Not many folks leave their browser on the forum home anyway, I don't think... they'd be more likely to stay on UserCP, or inside one of the forums where new threads appear.

In any case, as I mentioned above, I have a small forum. And this is a great hack for me, I appreciate Red Blaze sharing it, and I'm happy that it works so well with the avatar hack I'd already installed!

Okay I have installed this and I don't even think it's working properly. Are you sure this works fine on v3.5.4?

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