Add back real-time list of people viewing thread?

[po]

Thanks for your quick reply! I had not been following your release schedule closely. When might you anticipate that release happening? I don't mean to rush you, and will use that information to decide when to inform our groups.

[julian]

How soon this can be done really depends on the champion for the feature, @baris

[baris]

This is blocked until I can figure out the issues with the socket.io dependencies. https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-redis/pull/155

[po]

Thanks @baris for working on this!

[po]

Hi guys! I have been out working on other aspects of Expii for several months, and am coming back to our NodeBB installation. Time to upgrade to your new versions.

I am curious: how far along is the support for real time display of users viewing the same thread as you?

[julian]

Hey @baris, that upstream PR was merged last month :trollface:

[baris]

Ok published 1.0.1 of the plugin, you need to pair it up with the develop branch or wait for 1.5.0. There will be a browsingUsers array in the topic route so you can modify your template and add the list of users with the below template.

<!-- BEGIN browsingUsers -->
<li data-uid="{browsingUsers.uid}">
	<a href="{config.relative_path}/user/{browsingUsers.userslug}">
		<!-- IF browsingUsers.picture -->
		<img src="{browsingUsers.picture}" />
		<!-- ELSE -->
		<div class="user-icon" style="background-color: {browsingUsers.icon:bgColor};">{browsingUsers.icon:text}</div>
		<!-- ENDIF browsingUsers.picture -->
	</a>
</li>
<!-- END browsingUsers -->

[po]

Great! I'll wait until 1.5.0.

Also, as I was watching this thread with my browser open, I noticed that it didn't auto-refresh when there was a new reply. I remember the old version used to do that in real time whenever someone replied and your browser window was open. Will that feature come back too?

[julian]

It may be that your session disconnected from real-time after being idle (another resource-saving measure)

[po]

Oh, I see! And I just saw your reply appear.