[jimnyc]

If I place my name in the hidden list, will the rest of the moderators still see me, those that have rights to see "Who's online"? I would like for them to see everyone who is online, but still somehow hide myself when I login.

Thanks!

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by jimnyc

If I place my name in the hidden list, will the rest of the moderators still see me, those that have rights to see "Who's online"? I would like for them to see everyone who is online, but still somehow hide myself when I login.

Thanks!

If you put your username in the list of hidden users, then only those users you set (either by usergroup or username) as those from which no one is hidden will see you online.

[jimnyc]

Originally Posted by MarkFL

If you put your username in the list of hidden users, then only those users you set (either by usergroup or username) as those from which no one is hidden will see you online.

Sweet, thanks. Installed!

[MarkFL]

Update - Version 1.1:

• Added option to show hidden users as guests.

[MarkFL]

Update - Version 1.2:

• Hidden users shown as guests now moved to the end of the guest list on Who's Online.

[chloe101]

This works very well but do you know how I can totally remove the popup text that says x is online now (or x is offline now)? I don't even want that to popup. Thanks for another great mod!

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by chloe101

This works very well but do you know how I can totally remove the popup text that says x is online now (or x is offline now)? I don't even want that to popup. Thanks for another great mod!

Yes, I see what you mean...that is certainly a hole in this product, and I will fill that in tonight, and publish an update ASAP. Thank you for alerting me to this.

[chloe101]

Thank you! You really rock. Btw, I'd "like" your replies more often if VBulletin would let me.

[MarkFL]

Update - Version 1.3:

• Fixed reported issue of memberaction dropdown giving away online status.

[In Omnibus]

The only concern I have in using this product is it might make a forum appear inactive to guests. If guests can see who's online then it serves no purpose to block registered usergroups.

I'm sure there's a way around this but I'm not quite sure what it is.

[chloe101]

That was fast! Thank you. Now they all show as offline which is great. Is there any way to turn that useless little hover message off totally?

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by In Omnibus

The only concern I have in using this product is it might make a forum appear inactive to guests. If guests can see who's online then it serves no purpose to block registered usergroups.

I'm sure there's a way around this but I'm not quite sure what it is.

Guests cannot see hidden users, nor can they see users who have chosen to be invisible either.

You probably wouldn't want to have a large number of users as hidden with this product. However, there are more indicators of an active community besides the number of users seen to be online at any given moment, such as new threads/posts, etc.

This won't hide who has visited within the last 24 hours either.

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by chloe101

That was fast! Thank you. Now they all show as offline which is great. Is there any way to turn that useless little hover message off totally?

Yes, but you'd likely want to do that for everyone, rather than just the users affected by this product, so that no one stands out as being "different."

Do you want me to add an option to turn that off for everyone?

[chloe101]

Yes please! Or just let me know how to do it. My members consider it an invasion of their privacy to have their online status showing so I am trying to turn it off everywhere, zap every trace of it (except for Admins/Mods of course).