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#1 2011-07-21 00:44:32
- Thescratch3
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Online Detector
I think there should be a thing on the web site to detect if one of your friends are online or something. Like when clicking my stuff, it shows a little icon like maybe a check mark if they are online or nothing if they are not. Also it could/couldn't show in the see more button!
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#2 2011-07-21 01:05:42
- scimonster
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Re: Online Detector
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#3 2011-07-21 06:22:13
Re: Online Detector
I think Thescratch3 is more referring to an online/offline indicator on the main Scratch site showing if Scratch users are currently on or offline, rather than their status on the fora 
I would love that too! It would be very handy to see who's there and who isn't
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#4 2011-07-21 10:15:09
- gettysburg11
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Re: Online Detector
An online/offline system on the main site...it's something I would really like to see, but doesn't really seem doable. On the forums, it's doable, because there's never really more than 50, let's say, out of over 186,000 users.
On the main site though, (which no matter what we forumers like to think, is still more popular than the forums 
) there's over 843,000 users. Hundreds, if not thousands of them could be online.
I've seen this be suggested before, and there's no doubt in my mind it'll be suggested again, but the above argument is the main reason why people say it won't work. Now don't get me wrong, I would really enjoy seeing something like this implemented, but I'm just not sure if it's really feasible to try.
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#5 2011-07-21 11:49:01
Re: Online Detector
Good point. Facebook manage it though, as do a lot of social networking sites so it must be applicable to large groups of people... though practically it may cause more site lag than it's worth... Facebook is very rich so they can probably afford more and faster servers than MIT.
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#6 2011-07-22 22:12:08
Re: Online Detector
sparks wrote:
Good point. Facebook manage it though, as do a lot of social networking sites so it must be applicable to large groups of people... though practically it may cause more site lag than it's worth... Facebook is very rich so they can probably afford more and faster servers than MIT.
But Facebook is designed for the social networking... Scratch is about programming.
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#7 2011-07-22 22:14:10
Re: Online Detector
sparks wrote:
Good point. Facebook manage it though, as do a lot of social networking sites so it must be applicable to large groups of people... though practically it may cause more site lag than it's worth... Facebook is very rich so they can probably afford more and faster servers than MIT.
Facebook has a system that allows you to set your status on online or offline though. I suppose that could be added to Scratch, but I imagine the servers for Scratch aren't nearly as large or powerful, not to mention such a system seems rather superfluous, to be honest.
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