Hi! I'm quite new here, but I've already sent a few messages, for which I have not received answers yet, and I wondered whether it would be possible to see people who are online, because then, it would be much faster to make friends, since those people would get your messages the instant you send them, and not a month later... We can already see if someone is online or not, but there is no list of people online, which could be an option in "find friends". What do you think? Of course, I don't know if it is possible, since I don't know how difficult it is to implement...

Subject created by musichien on May 03, 2008 @ 11:17

I can't tell you if the administrators of polyglot can do it, but I can tell you that it is possible with a delay of some minutes because HTTP is a stateless protocol. So if someone is showed as online on a page which I'm working at, it's possible that he has left the page 5 minutes ago.
It would be possible to make the time much more exactly by the usage of AJAX, but this would lead to heavy traffic due to all the small HTTP requests and answers every minute even if the user doesn't do anything.
So it depends on the admins, how accurate they want to make it and how hard it is to do then... Just to give you an overview before a real answer will maybe be written by an administrator.

Comment written by Brati on May 12, 2008 @ 01:52