Once again: Since the session is the thing that vB determines by whether a user is currently online or not, you can't do it without sessions. Just as you can't show threads without the thread table or posts without the posts table. Like it or not.
So, I'm sorry this does not qualify as a great addon on your scale, but I can live with that. Sadly I have to work with what vB makes possible, not what you wish for. You can always file a suggestion in JIRA, and good luck with that.
Adding a button in the profile to do what the cronjob does for a single user would not be that hard. But what I really can't follow is why you'd rather click on a button in every user's profile every 15 minutes than to have that done automatically with a cronjob, but hey - each to his own I guess. Do you have partners to click through the nightshifts?
Anyway, I still find your attitude extremly annoying. If there was someone out there who coded a perfectly working addon for free on my request, I would surely not continously post that I felt it was too complicated, not comfortable enough and done the wrong way.
And now, just when you're finally forcing yourself to at least "appreciate the effort" and mutter a "thank you", you can't resist to state that you can perfectly understand why it is "only beta" and really not a great addon. As I said before, its miserable figures like you that make coders think twice before offering help.
Just for the record: This addon is no longer beta, and from now on, is (really) unsupported - maybe I'll do bugfixing if a bug in current functionality should be found. It is what it is now, and will not be improved upon. It works as it is, so take it or leave it.
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