Last online for hack author
 

I think it would be handy if the first post of a hack showed (the date) when the author was last online - so people have an idea of whether they are likely to get a reply to support questions. I have seen numerous hacks where a question has been posted, but the author has not been seen for months (or longer in some cases).

yeah thats a pretty cool suggestion, maybe "highlighted"

Sounds good, but it can also have a negative effect. What if an author is shortly online and for whatever reason don't have the time to reply to a question. People would be complaining that the coder was online, but didn't 'want' to answer their question.

Maybe a system that will only show 'Was online in the last month', '..the last 6 months' or 'It has been longer then 6 months'

Try to be positive towards a suggestion for once. :p

I was suggesting something that just showed the date they were last online.

i.e. ;

Last online: 15 Jul 2005

Only a complete muppet would interpret that as currently online.

(You could drop the 15 I suppose, so it just said Jul 2005, if you are really that paranoid).

I like the idea, and if people complain about the author being online and having no time to answer questions, you might have to put them in their place. ;)

It's an indication, I don't think it's supposed to guarentee support at that exact time. :)

If the author doesn't want his online time to be known he could always browse the board as a hidden user ;).

It might be worth adding, I did a plug-in for this a few weeks ago for the postbit so I'm already a big fan of it :D

great idea :)

Bump this when we are using 3.5 and we may add it. :)

actually, i like this and it was a thing adding in 5 secunds to custom code, so i added it :)

Nice :)

Now a more descriptive one would be better ;)

I.e. 15 July etc :p

or make it use the Yesterday/Today format:

Last online:
Today
Last online:
Yesterday
Last online:
13th Jul 2005
etc :D

Satan