It looks as though a lot of people would like their main forum page to indicate how many users are online, or in some cases, show their names.. Regardless of whether or not you show each and every username in the chat, or just show the amount of users, a Who's Online Module 'hit' is consumed. Shortly, I'm going to be working on someone elses site to do something just like this. In order to minimize the quick usage of Who's Online hits (and keep from saturating RaiderSoft's servers) we'll need to figure out a way to set up a simple cron so the data is only updated every 5 or 10 minutes or so (or however the end user would like it set up) Either way, it looks like a version 1.1 is in order, and I'll be getting started on it shortly. I'll send out an update as soon as it's online! Thanks for all the great comments and suggestions!
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