# \[Suggestion\] Give users page dual purpose - as a 'who's online' page

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-give-users-page-dual-purpose-as-a-whos-online-page/40635
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [March 6, 2016, 1:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-give-users-page-dual-purpose-as-a-whos-online-page/40635 "2016-03-06T01:18:08Z")
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### Author: ![purldator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@purldator](https://meta.discourse.org/u/purldator)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 1:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-give-users-page-dual-purpose-as-a-whos-online-page/40635/3 "2016-03-06T01:31:37Z")

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In the context of a strict “whos online” feature you describe, aye, I agree with the why and what your implementation does. But this, in general, has already been discussed into the ground, past the mantle, drilling clean through the core then tunneling back out the other end into another land.

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/presence-features-for-forums/12](https://meta.discourse.org/t/presence-features-for-forums/12)

This topic below; somewhat related.

> [@See who all are writing replies to a topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/see-who-all-are-writing-replies-to-a-topic/38884):
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> Hello everybody! What I want: See who - apart from me - is using the “Reply” dialog box to write a reply to a particular topic. Like, on Quora, whenever I am browsing a question, I can also see people who are writing an answer to it. Why I want this: Often, it happens that I post a reply to a topic only to discover that some other person has already written the same response 5-10 seconds ago. Sometimes, it also happens that the other person posts his/her reply while I am still writing my reply…

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