Implemented Online status icon in postbit

[Alpha1]

A handy feature that my members have gotten used to is a small icon in postbit to indicate if a member is online or not. Please add this function.

 

[Alpha1]

I like the concept of a round light that's on(green or blue) or off(grey) similar to what vb had. (but more modern)

 

[The Sandman]

Clear Style?

It's a completely transparent style suitable only for forums for espers.

 

[Allan]

Clear Style?

Sorry, I meant light style.

 

[Shelley]

Sorry, I meant light style.

Should be/ I'm almost sure it would be fine on light styles if your referring to the colour used in that example. It's fully css (box-shadow) so it would be a matter of changing the colour.

 

[Adam Howard]

I would not mind seeing this as an option. I can see some sites needing this and some site who would do everything possible to remove it.

 

[Mike Edge]

I've been playing with the online/offline thing again so it got a like from me.

The add-on recommended above btw is very good and your able (pending your comfortable with css and photoshop) can craft out many new forms of online status. Point being it's good as a temp solution until this is/may be accommodated.

Oh I like! Are you going to release that off/on using your rank ribbon?

 

[Shelley]

Yeah sure, I don't see why not. I've deleted the css since then because I'm tinkering with a few designs atm but I'll replicate it all again and post it when I'm done on a final design for my own site.

 

[Sheldon]

Had something like that for SD, but it wasn't for being online....

 

[0ptima]

I like this

 

[Shelley]

I like this

The only issue I am having with that (still trying to find a fix) is that the avatar becomes unclickable. It's no real biggie for me because there's 3-4 other llinks (username, posted by username) in the vicinity that opens the membercard but I'm still trying to find a fix regardless.

 

[Sheldon]

The only issue I am having with that (still trying to find a fix) is that the avatar becomes unclickable. It's no real biggie for me because there's 3-4 other llinks (username, posted by username) in the vicinity that opens the membercard but I'm still trying to find a fix regardless.

Are you creating it and using it as like, an overlay? Or is it set behind the avatar?

 

[Shelley]

Are you creating it and using it as like, an overlay? Or is it set behind the avatar?

The add-on places it infront of the avatar so it's technically stopping that area becoming clickable. Setting it behind the avatar is what I am wanting to do without template editing but it looks likely a template edit may be needed or a request to the add-on author to have an option placed behind avatar for this specific design.

 

[Vicros]

I like the one with Online and Offline above the avatar

 

[Devilwillcry4you]

I agree with others that online/offline should be a core feature.

 

[Allan]

I agree with others that online/offline should be a core feature.

Yes !

 

[nrep]

I would also like to see this feature (well, my members would at least!), along with usergroup control (i.e. don't bother showing the status to guests). I've tried a couple of mods, but they both add a proportionally large loading time to the page, whereas there could be more optimal ways of doing this if it was part of the core.

 

[Alpha1]

Yes, usergroup permission would be great.

 

[Ludachris]

Anyone know if this other add-on works with 1.3, and if it will be ok on larger forums?
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/online-status-indicator-within-threads.8813

I just want something simple, and am considering changing it so that there's a simple colored border around the avatar.

 

[Alpha1]

It seems that the addon you link to uses the same approach as this addon.

I asked @xfrocks to create a new addon for me and this was his reply:

Actually it's pretty simple to do that without any add-on and good performance. Of course the online status is not exactly correct but it will be good enough in most case.

What you want to do is you check for {$post.last_activity} to make sure user is active within 15 minutes then show the icon as needed. A template modification is enough.

 

[Ludachris]

Interesting... I guess that could work. Any idea what the syntax would be for checking that?