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Kyrne

You had to know this was coming:

3.1.1

Online users widget in 100% real-time! Requires Widget Core to work.
- Only users will show up but the list is viewable by all
- Note that this is a standalone widget, you do not need the Online Users Extension. Everything is inside this update
Allow guests to view typing indicators inside discussions
Fixed lack of color on placeholder avatar images
Fixed a translation issue
Other super exciting changes like moving files around

After updating please clear your Flarum Cache and restart the websocket server.

Tags for people that were interested @ctml @[deleted]

ctml

Kyrne You had to know this was coming:

Booyah! 🕺 Thanks a ton @Kyrne !

GreXXL

Kyrne really like the feature. Is it intentional that you cannot see yourself in the user online widget? As a guest you can see yourself online 🙂 Also if you have enabled websockets only for logged-in users the widget breaks for guests and shows always loading. Should be disabled then?

Additionally: would it be possible to include "and X guests" to show how many non-logged in users are online.

MikeJones

Kyrne dang... This is getting interesting been watching for a bit...

This hard to set up on an nginx server?

ctml

GreXXL "and X guests" to show how many non-logged in users are online

That would be ~~nice~~ sweet!

One small issue, when hovering the online users the username is shown rather than the display name. Won't affect all forums but for mine it does matter 🙂

Kyrne

3.2.0

Guest count will now show up on the online widget
Users can see themselves in the widget
Respect "disclose online" preference
- Will show up as a guest on the widget (increased guest count not visible from the user's end)
- Will not be shown in the "here now" discussion area
- Typing indicator will not be sent
Use display names globally
Increased time between ping/pong messages by 50% to reduce load
Updated nginx docs for new users

After updating please clear your cache and restart the websocket server

GreXXL Also if you have enabled websockets only for logged-in users the widget breaks for guests and shows always loading. Should be disabled then?

Correct, this option will need to be off for the widget to work.

Kyrne

I'll fix all this tonight 🙂

Wadera

It's leaking usernames which untick:

Allow others to see when I am online

They are still display in online widgets and in the discussions pages under currently reading section

matteocontrini

Wadera I noticed that too, I think there should also be an option to disable the feature completely, for privacy reasons. I disabled the extension in the meantime, unfortunately.

ctml

matteocontrini you mean disable the widget? If yes, you just go to the cute widget and disable it there

matteocontrini

ctml ah sorry, I was thinking about the presence thing in the discussion page, which I think has the same problem

GreXXL

matteocontrini you can at least hide it by restricting access to admins in permissions.

[deleted]

MikeJones Nope. Not at all. I can help you with that.

m4v3rick

MikeJones

Really not difficult. I could do it with a little help from @Kyrne . The tutorial on the extiverse site is quite easy to follow.

[deleted]

m4v3rick The tutorial on the extiverse site is quite easy to follow.

But it's inaccurate (unless it's been updated recently) if you want to use a reverse proxy and not a cert.

Wadera

[deleted] I would like to see public available tutorial for Apache for that reason

m4v3rick

[deleted] But it's inaccurate (unless it's been updated recently) if you want to use a reverse proxy and not a cert.

With some help installing it the first time I found it actually straight forward.
Since I haven't used it for some months because of performance issues (old flarum version) I am looking forward to set it up again. 🙂

[deleted]

@m4v3rick yes, Kyrne Updated nginx docs for new users 👍

Kyrne

3.3.0

Post events are now triggered asynchronously
- To take full advantage of this performance increase, I recommend you install and setup Blomstra's Redis Queue extension
- Performance benefits will vary based on the size of your forum. Small forums will only see a small difference, large forums will see a incredible difference.
- On the largest of forums, this extension previously crippled the posting load time
- I'm quite happy and confident in the scalability of Websocket at this point
Updated dependencies, if you had an issue with Guzzlehttp/psr7, you're good to go with this update.
Some more internal performance changes

Updating

Run composer update kyrne/websocket -W
No websocket server restart or cache clearing necessary.

ornanovitch

Kyrne

🔥

stimw

Kyrne

Just a little advise: you can update these great information to the first post, new users may not see this one

MikeJones

Kyrne To take full advantage of this performance increase, I recommend you install and setup Blomstra's Redis Queue extension

Do we need the redis one if we are using your recache extension?

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