# No online status in Topic List

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-online-status-in-topic-list/229528
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** whos-online
**Created:** [May 14, 2022, 5:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-online-status-in-topic-list/229528 "2022-05-14T17:06:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![Fma965](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fma965/32/259795_2.png) [@Fma965](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Fma965)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2022, 5:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-online-status-in-topic-list/229528/1 "2022-05-14T17:06:50Z")

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Hey, it seems the [Discourse Who's Online](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-whos-online/52345) Plugin doesn’t work well on my theme? Discourse Air (modified, but original is the same)

I’m using CSS tweaks to show OP avatar instead of Latest Poster avatar but even without these tweaks i never see Online status in Topic List

You can see in the topic list no one is online

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/2/8/a28db2d1eac70f4c2904d412bcf3066bd9e3c6a9.png)

But if you go to a topic or look at the “online” list you can see they are online

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/5/5/455c23b6f0b062739c366ea1f6445d8a0eabeb7e.png)  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/0/3/703f4cf1c553690602575a0295520afc61e489d6.png)

UPDATE: Infact I’m slightly confused, this also does not appear to work for me on the default Discourse theme, has there been some breaking change in recent discourse commits?

Or does this not work on desktop? if it doesn’t work on desktop the wording needs to be updated in the plugin settings to reflect this

> - **whos\_online\_avatar\_indicator\_topic\_lists** : display avatar indicators in **mobile** topic lists, and the “Categories & Latest” view. Defaults to off.

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-online-status-in-topic-list/229528/2 "2022-06-09T15:12:59Z")

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@Fma965 - I’ve split your post off into a new #Support topic to hopefully get some more eyes on it. 🤞