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

<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.