"Ville" says:
Hey guys, hopefully I'm allowed to suggest things here as well... read the whole forum through and couldn't find these anywhere so I'll post this topic now.


How about a possibility to see if a user is online or offline? There could be a simple red/green symbol in the forums for example. You would be able to hide your session (not shown online). This would be needed for my second idea..

..which is a chat function. Not necessarily talking about large TMX chatrooms but something to work next to the PM system. Sometimes it feels funny to PM a user about a small and often not so important thing that you still want to say. With a chat system it'd be just one click and you would be able to tell your business. If the user was offline, you couldn't chat with him/her, but you could still send a PM of course.

"Bucky" says:
If I recall correctly, chat was already suggested somewhere, and last I heard, ff was looking into it. As far as the online/offline idea, I don't see that being any harm to the community, so

"fastforza" says:
The online/offline idea is as far as "Total Visitors" which is based on users active over the last 20 mins (default length of a session). I may extend upon this idea with a list of users and their status (online/offline).

As for the chat, there is this one specific jQuery plugin which is by far the best I've found. I'm keen on *testing* it, but I'm not sure how much it would pound the database.

"Bucky" says:
if it turns out to be too much, users' can always send pms like "gogo msn!"

"Ville" says:
Alright, sounds good!