Afrux Online Users Widget

ART994

SychO there is no choice of guests

SychO

ART994 Permissions -> Search Users -> Global -> Everyone

Spooonky

Would it be possible for you to add a function that allows the choice to be made, that the name or the photo is displayed?

SychO

Spooonky I have plans to add that at some point

TB54

Good extension! A suggestion: it would be nice, as it's not always possible to show all online users, to be able to click on "more user" (or "+# user") to display the full list of online users on a page or in the main window.

CyberGene

I haven't installed this yet but I want the widget to be visible only for the admins and mods, is that possible? Actually I don't even need this to be a widget, something in the admin dashboard would suffice. Are there any plans for that?

Wlork

@SychO I've installed this widget. It works fine.

But I need to refresh the page to update the list of online users..... It's normal ? The list doesn't update automatically?

SychO

Wlork no realtime feature by default no

Wlork

SychO OK, thank !

It would be nice if it updated in real time.... If it's possible, of course 🙂

CyberGene

@SychO , I just noticed that on my forum when I open it in an incognito window (hence not even logged and no cookies), I can see the online widget and what users are online.

However in the permissions settings I have:

Always view user last seen time - admins and mods
Search users - admins, mods and members

This is really surprising since I wanted to limit this functionality to admins and mods only. Or even if it's to registered members but not to anybody.

Is that by design or is it a bug?

SychO

CyberGene the "Always view user last seen time" means that a user A can see the last seen time of another user B even if user B has it set to invisible, it's not an absolute permission about being able to see visibility. So it doesn't factor into whether this widget shows or not.

Only the search members permission is taken into consideration here. I might add a new unique permission for the widget in the future.

CyberGene

SychO I see, that makes sense.

However I still think there's some discrepancy here, because:

SychO Only the search members permission is taken into consideration here.

However in my case the search is not public but is limited to members only, while the online users widget is visible even for non-registered users browsing the forum. Could that be a bug?

SychO

CyberGene what are you settings like in the core widgets extension?

CyberGene

SychO there’s only one setting:
“Prefer loading all widgets data with initial page response.” which is enabled. I don’t remember exactly why I enabled it but maybe the widget was slow to load or didn’t always load or something and then I enabled it and all started working OK. Is that option the reason for restrictions not applying?

P.S. I disabled it and now I see that there are no online users which is suspicious since I always have at least 1-2 users that are online and I remembered that without that option the online users widget actually never worked even though I explicitly logged in with a test user. I think I’m seeing the same problem now.

SychO

CyberGene checked the code again, when disabled, make sure the two permissions you mentioned earlier are given to members

CyberGene

@SychO , I did some investigation and I can now confirm the following: those users that have chosen not to show their online status are not visible in the widget, however they are shown as online in the User Directory to me since I am an admin and I have the permission to see their online status.

Is that a bug or the intended behavior of this widget? I see that previously you said this:

SychO checked the code again, when disabled, make sure the two permissions you mentioned earlier are given to members

Do you mean that for the widget to work, all members should be given the permission to always see the online status of all members? If that's true, this defeats the purpose of the permission because members can't hide their online status anymore. I think the widget should show different online users, according to the permissions that are given to the user who is viewing the widget, e.g. the admin should be able too see all online users, even those who are hiding their online status, whereas a regular member (that should naturally not be given the permission to see everybody's online status) should only see those that are not hiding their status.

Can you confirm what is the actual behavior of this widget?

CyberGene

I am giving this a second chance but I think something is not working as expected. I am an admin on my forum and I have all permissions. So, for instance I see 1-2 users online, then I see no users online for some time and in that time a new post appears by a user. He was not shown as online neither before, nor during, nor after his post.

I have the following option disabled:
“Prefer loading all widgets data with initial page response”

As I said, I’m admin and have permissions:
Always view user last seen time - admins and mods
Search users - admins, mods and members

Is there anything else that needs to be set? Is there any caching? Maybe the extension checks for online users each 10 minutes and will cache that for the next 10 minutes and will not refresh and miss members going on and off in the meantime?

SychO

CyberGene Can you confirm what is the actual behavior of this widget?

sorry, I really don't remember, it's very likely a bug.

CyberGene

SychO , sure, no problem, I know you are busy with the 2.0, this is not really important. When you have time after the new release, it would be good to see if it's an easy fix though 🙂

CyberGene

Looking at the code (but I'm a Java developer and haven't worked with web frameworks and PHP, so might be missing something):

           return User::query()
                ->select('id', 'preferences')
                ->whereVisibleTo($actor)
                ->where('last_seen_at', '>', $time)
                ->limit($limit + 1)
                ->get()
                ->filter(function ($user) {
                    return (bool)$user->getPreference('discloseOnline');
                })
                ->pluck('id')
                ->toArray();

Seems that we filter only those users that disclose their online status. I think this filter should be kept but with another OR-ed condition checking if the actor has the permission to always see online status of other members.

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