The little dot that shows that a user is online is a great feature. I just responded to a question from a user who was flagged as online. I thought it would be a nice feature that if a user is online when someone posts to his/her thread that there could be some visual feedback to that user that there is a new post. Not being a web programmer (and having no desire whatsoever to learn) I don't know what kind of feedback could be used. Private messages are flagged by changing the colour of Private Message at the top of the page. Perhaps something similar like changing the colour of the Username to the left of Private Messages.
Reverend Jim 5,224 Hi, I'm Jim, one of DaniWeb's moderators. Moderator Featured Poster
mike_2000_17 2,669 21st Century Viking Team Colleague Featured Poster
I guess it would make more sense to have the highlighting occur on the "Watched Articles" at the top of the page. I like the idea.
Reverend Jim 5,224 Hi, I'm Jim, one of DaniWeb's moderators. Moderator Featured Poster
highlighting occur on the "Watched Articles
Good point.
Dani 4,558 The Queen of DaniWeb Administrator Featured Poster Premium Member
This has been suggested multiple times before but, unfortunately, is too resource intensive to compute on every page load for each individual member. As mentioned previously, however, individuals can choose to use our API to generate it should they so desire.
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