# "Who's online" widget in Discourse - my version

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/whos-online-widget-in-discourse-my-version/31722>\
**Category:** Marketplace\
**Tags:** wordpress\
**Created:** [4 Agosto, 2015 02:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whos-online-widget-in-discourse-my-version/31722 "2015-08-04T02:25:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [4 Agosto, 2015 09:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whos-online-widget-in-discourse-my-version/31722/8 "2015-08-04T09:05:05Z")

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If I needed to design a whos online thingy I would use an outlet at the bottom of the categories page, and then have a message bus channel that posted once in a while updates to the list.

Presense … correctly… is actually a tricky problem.

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