# Voeg kleur toe achter gebruikersnamen die verandert om de tijd sinds de laatste login aan te geven
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-colour-behind-user-names-which-changes-to-indicate-time-passed-since-last-log-in/184561
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [27 maart 2021 om 07:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-colour-behind-user-names-which-changes-to-indicate-time-passed-since-last-log-in/184561 "2021-03-27T07:03:50Z")
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### Author:  [@KrisW](https://meta.discourse.org/u/KrisW)
#### Post date: [27 maart 2021 om 07:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-colour-behind-user-names-which-changes-to-indicate-time-passed-since-last-log-in/184561/1 "2021-03-27T07:03:50Z")
So, of course this is easy to explain but might be enormously difficult to implement.
**Can the background of user names at the top of each post be changed to indicate how long it has been since they participated?**
I’d suggest colours for activity within 1 week, within 3 months, 90-365 days, over 1 year (although teachers might want 23h).
Why? This would be a super-quick visual reference to help us determine if a user is still around often. Most useful for me in cases of reading backwards, when seeing a Really Interesting old post I’d know “hey, that person is pretty active now so I won’t be launching a Zombie Thread if I reply and add my thoughts or questions.”
This is not duplicating information already on the User Card, but adding a layer of information. Current User Card info gives Posted x days ago, Recent read time (within the last 60 days) and read time (since the creation of the account). Plus, we already get a notification before posts that says “We haven’t seen KrisW …” so clearly The System logs time already.
For me, in this case “ **participation** ” = presence; logging on, eyes on the page. Wallflower voyeur. I’m not trying to get some tally of clicks, words composed, or number of responses. I just want to know that the person has been there on the other side of the screen recently.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [17 januari 2022 om 21:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-colour-behind-user-names-which-changes-to-indicate-time-passed-since-last-log-in/184561/2 "2022-01-17T21:19:29Z")
This already happens – new users have a light grey username, that’s been in Discourse since 2013. Beyond that, you will need to click or tap on the username to bring up the user card for the user.