Aha! and some of you said It wouldnt happen :D

[chipbgt]

So I go to Sysopts Message Board, and whats this I see? I am the only one online I printed the screen as proof but of course my ISP's ftp doesnt feel like working so its gonna have to wait Oh well...Just thought it was interesting.

[Dave_H]

I've been here for an hour or so. Don't I count?
Dave

[plucky duck]

Me Plucky Duck Here 2

[oblivion]

What am I,chopped liver?

[chipbgt]

I am sure it was just a burp in the sysopt system and I caught it sleeping..but it was still fun...if someone wants to host the pic for me temporarily let me know

[plucky duck]

oblivion, shh!!!

DOn't talk about food in the middle of the night *Stomache growling*

Yum yum...chopped liver...my favourite hehe.

Plucky

[brandon184]

chipbgt, send me the file the next time you are on ICQ if you still don't have it workin' by then.

- Brandon

<<EDIT>> I have it set to accept a file from you regardless if Im not at the computer. <</EDIT>>

[This message has been edited by brandon184 (edited 06-29-2000).]

[howste]

Hey, how does Sysopt know when you're online anyway? IP address? ICQ? People posting? Any way you look at it, how accurate could it really be?

Steve

[chipbgt]

Howste dont try to ruin it for me

[brandon184]

Its a sad state of affairs when this is what is going on this forum... hehe

[chipbgt]

Thanks for the use of internet space Brandon.....good thing you decided to hang around some more

btw, feel free to send me an instant message guys (as you can see from the pic) ..ill let you guess at my handle....

[This message has been edited by chipbgt (edited 06-29-2000).]

[howste]

Sorry, wasn't trying to ruin your fun. Actually I really do want to know how online members are counted. Scott? Socalgal? Mntsnow? Anyone?

Steve

[Warthog]

lol

Chip the dedicated Sysopt member. You are a true Ultimate member. haha j/k

...and what about those special toilets you were supposed to show me...?

Warthog

[Mntsnow]

They are counted by the forum Cookie that is used to remember who you are. If you were to want and visit and not have anyone beable to see your on-line all you have to do is disable your cookies but you will then have to type in your name and password everytime you go to post. If you ever notice there is times that you will see me posting and I will not show up on the page is because I'm using a shared computer at work that we have setup to not use cookies...but when I'm on the computer in my cubie that is locked down when I'm not there I will show up and of course when I'm here at home I show up as the cookies are enabled

[Joel Kleppinger]

It goes even further than that... the little script we use to show the "who's online" has some bugs and it resets itself at a random point.. and I've never seen it above 35, and Scott and I have a theory that when it gets above 25 it has a tendancy to reset at any time.

Since we'll be upgrading the forum to an in-house forum at some point in the coming months, that is supposed to be a feature that will be completely fixed.

And for any of you that might be concerned that EW will just be creating any old forum, they are listening to all of our ideas for the ideal forum design and promise to implement as many as possible. It should be good... though there is no official release date yet.