# \[Suggestion\] 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:** [06.Март.2016 01:18:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-give-users-page-dual-purpose-as-a-whos-online-page/40635 "2016-03-06T01:18:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 6

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![AstonJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/astonj/32/215041_2.png) [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)\
**Post date:** [06.Март.2016 01:50:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-give-users-page-dual-purpose-as-a-whos-online-page/40635/6 "2016-03-06T01:50:40Z")

</div>

There would hardly be a million visitors with no content - let’s talk real figures and real boards Jeff.

Have you asked yourself why it seems a disproportionate number of Discourse forums don’t last very long? I wondered why that might be the case when I looked at the “Visit our forum” topic recently.

Truth is people like to be part of an active community, and anything we can do to show that would be a positive thing surely?

_I think it’s quite telling that one of the most downloaded plug-ins for other forum software is the who’e been online plugins._

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-give-users-page-dual-purpose-as-a-whos-online-page/40635)._