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Paul M · #1 07-15-2005, 04:34 AM

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).

Dream · #2 07-15-2005, 04:37 AM

yeah thats a pretty cool suggestion, maybe "highlighted"

Marco van Herwaarden · #3 07-15-2005, 05:00 AM

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'

Paul M · #4 07-15-2005, 05:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

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.

Try to be positive towards a suggestion for once.

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).

Tony G · #5 07-15-2005, 07:45 AM

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.

Brad · #6 07-15-2005, 08:12 AM

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

sabret00the · #7 07-15-2005, 08:13 AM

great idea

Erwin · #8 07-15-2005, 10:37 AM

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

Xenon · #9 07-15-2005, 04:33 PM

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

Chris M · #10 07-15-2005, 04:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xenon

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

or make it use the Yesterday/Today format:

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

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