# Discourse Who's Online

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-whos-online/52345
**Category:** Plugin
**Tags:** official, whos-online
**Created:** [November 2, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-whos-online/52345 "2016-11-02T00:59:53Z")
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#### Post date: [September 7, 2025, 10:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-whos-online/52345/451 "2025-09-07T10:14:18Z")

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> [@Jagster](#):
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> But if Who’s Online, which is just visual marker, will affect away-time of notifications, that would be a bug.

That does make sense. Thanks.

I know Google analytics uses like around 15 to 30 months for active visitors. So wanted to match this without affecting email notifications.

What you said does seem like how it should be. It’s a plugin so shouldn’t affect the core.

Also kept the default “only when alway” for notification preferences and made a post to let users know how they can cut that back even more. For example if we visit daily, we don’t always need a weekly digest. Or you may want to set it to monthly.

Thankfully the notifications options offer sensible defaults and options.

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