We don’t have plans for anything like this in core at the moment (I’m not sure we’d want to? we tend to prefer asynchronicity, and knowing what everyone’s doing at any given moment is kind of the opposite!)
Anyway, it should be possible in a plugin… we’ve recently added a PresenceChannel API that makes this type of thing easier:
I didn’t say it should be core feature, I asked if this is possible as plugin or a theme component.
And, your argument is a little bit odd, because when you are in a topic (or in a pm) and someone is writing an answer you can see that this user is writing at the moment. So the system knows what each user is doing atm.
I’m not familiar with Ruby so I can’t make a plugin.
True, my mistake! I read too much into the mention of it as a built-in SMF feature.
Right, but you’re required to be in the same place at the same time… there’s a little barrier there. The utility to seeing that someone’s typing in the same topic also seems clear to me… on Meta, for example, if I see someone from our team typing a response I can comfortably move on to something else.
A separate page with presence makes it significantly easier to stalk or micromanage someone, and the utility aspect outside of that type of behavior seems less clear to me. Is there a use-case you’re trying to cover? Knowing that may help.
That’s ok! there might be someone else in the community interested in building it, that’s one of the benefits about working through features publicly.
ich bin gerade erst auf das “Wer ist online”-Plugin aufmerksam geworden, und obwohl es mir ziemlich gut gefällt, finde ich es zu viel verlangt, dass Benutzer ihre Anwesenheit komplett verbergen müssen (Mein öffentliches Profil und Anwesenheitsfunktionen ausblenden), um sich abzumelden.
Meiner Meinung nach sollte es möglich sein, sich einfach von “Wer ist online” abzumelden.
Das ist die vernünftigste und verantwortungsvollste Option für die Benutzerbetreuung, die ich im Laufe der Jahre in anderen Foren gesehen habe.
