What is it?
This modification will add a counter to your forums that will record/track how much time your users have spent online. And output it in various sections of the site (EX: Time Online: 5 Months 2 Weeks 1 Day 15 Hours 44 Minutes 33 Seconds).
Features
Total Time Online in Postbit & Ministats block in the profile
Average Time Online (Per Day) in Postbit & Ministats block in the profile
Leader Board Displaying Time Online & Average Time Online (Per Day) for all the sites members
Cumulative Time Online on Leader Board & Stats box of FORUMHOME
Use Short Phrases (Ex. "1 Min 5 Secs" instead of "1 Minute 5 Seconds")
Use Micro Phrases in Postbit (Ex. "32d 12h 44m")
Display Cumulative Time Online on Leader Board/Forumhome
Leader Board/Navbar Link Enabled
Installation/Upgrade See included file.
Release Notes
Version 1.1.1
Added the average time per day function
Added 4 settings used for controlling display of the Time Online and Avg. Time Online for both profile and postbit.
A few optimizations for memory/performance
Version 1.2.0
Added Leader Board Displaying Time Online & Average Time Online (Per Day) for all the sites members
Added Cumulative Time Online on Leader Board
Added Cumulative Time Online on Stats box of FORUMHOME
Added Numerous new settings for controlling the system
Version 1.2.1
Fixed a Bug resulting in the timestamp for date installed not setting correctly.
Version 1.2.2
Updated postbit template code.
Version 1.2.3
Added Postbit Micro Phrases
Added Template Group
Version 1.2.4
Moved functions to a file.
Added Time Spent Online to the Who's Online.
vBulletin 3.8 Version Released
Version 1.2.5
Fixed a timestamp flaw in the average time spent online function.
Known Bugs
Currently none.
Resolved Bugs
Function definition problem causing scripts that utilized the postbit factory without the vbulletin global file being initialized, such as the vBcms commenting engine, to display errors. (version 1.2.0)
Bug resulting in the timestamp for date installed not setting correctly. (version 1.2.1)
Planned additions
We currently are talking about making an average time per day (similiar to the posts per day) (Added in version 1.1.1)
We also have plans to make a leaderboard for so people can see who spends the most time floating around the site. (Added in version 1.2.0)
We are planning to add in more settings at some point to give quite a bit more control over the system.(Added in version 1.2.0)
Support
This modification is released for free and as such we don't officially support it, but as time permits we will try to offer support on it. You are more likely to get a response over at our site as we wont be checking this thread frequently.
It seems statistics in first day is not so accurate but after next day it comes much closer to reality. Average will become real in some days...
Did anyone think a user seeing how much time he spend online he might decide to come not so often?
The stats the first day are spot on accurate, the reason they don't look accurate is that most people expect the numbers to get smaller when divided out, but because you are dividing by less than a whole day, your are actually multiplying.
EX. If I spend 6 hours of the 12 hours its been installed online, then mathematically, you would get that I spend an average of 12 ( (6/12)*24 ) hours online per day. However, after a couple of days, if I have only spent 12 hours online, then you would see that I only spend 6 ( (12/48)*24) hours online each day.
As far as making the users come less often, I haven't heard any cases of that, but I have heard cases of users competing for most time online.
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As far as making the users come less often, I haven't heard any cases of that, but I have heard cases of users competing for most time online.
I have already addiction problem on forum. I even created a Detox ban where user is banned for 10 days only upon request so he can take a break
Many thanks, counter is counting and I new the mathematical calculation, just
I think I have a bug affecting calculations on forum. I had users banned on 15 points where automatic ban goes on at 20. Also total time at begging seems a bit off, but this is because of my bug not because of your mod.
Great one, damn if I had this 3 years ago now I had total time more than a century
I agree with the others, it's pretty addictive! I have disabled the display of "show in postbits and profiles and no link in Navbar"
I think i will drop the bomb for my members until the modification has been active for a week or so. I think it will be quite entertaining to see their reaction!
I installed it on two forums vb 3.7.4 and 3.8.6, works perfect!
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07-07-2010, 03:10 PM
