Online users widget & ACP

[dave1904]

Hi,

i'm quite sure I read a similar question here before but can't find the related topic or remember the answer. I notice that the number of active/online users differ between the online users widget and in the acp. Can someone explain this to me?

ACP:

Online users widget:

[baris]

The acp stats are showing active socket connections, this is a more real time stat. The widget shows people who have navigated the forum in the past 30 mins.

[dave1904]

@baris Thanks for the explanation! I just realized I named the wrong widget :D. I meant the forum stats widget, but I think that's obvious from the screenshot. I'm currently using the online user + forum stats widget. I thought that, for example, if the online user widget shows 6 users and the forum stats show 10 online users, it would be a total of 6 users + 4 guests.

Is this widget better to get a more accurate list of online users + guests? https://community.nodebb.org/topic/16280/nodebb-widget-board-stats-update

Could the ACP widget be used on normal pages?

[baris]

Widget-stats plugin uses the same system https://github.com/NodeBB-Community/nodebb-widget-board-stats/blob/master/library.js#L88-L90, users who have performed an action in the past 30 mins

[dave1904]

Is there anything against if I modify it and only use now or 5 minutes?

db.sortedSetCount('users:online', now - (meta.config.onlineCutoff * 60000), '+inf'),

[baris]

You can change it to 5 minutes in the ACP using the online cutoff setting.