Habbos.net - Phew!

[---MAD---]

I was looking at the official fansite list yesterday and I saw a fansite called habbos.net which I registered on ages ago and simply forgotten about.

To my surprise, when going on it I saw it had more users than Habbox forum!!

I was going crazy thinking how is this possible and how we never knew about this and never heard about the fansite for so long!

It turns out this is because their online sessions expire after at least 1 hour! Therefore a user logged on 1 hour ago and a user browsing right now would be displayed as online on their list which explains the huge number of guests and also the large amount of users online throughout the day (they had 72, we had 67 when writing this up).

Habbox Forum has a 15 minute session expiration! Therefore we had 67 users in 15 minutes. They had 72 in the whole hour.

Now I don't feel as stupid or blind !

This is in no way bashing their forum or anything - I think it's a great community they have going and wish them nothing but the best of luck! I only wish vBulletin forced all forums to use the same inactive session expiration limit (or at least a way to find out how many users are on in the last say.. 5 minutes to really tell how active a forum is) as for the average user, they probably don't even know about session expiring times etc and just think "Oh hey this forum seems more popular, I am going to join!".

Did you know about session expiration limit option in vBulletin before reading this thread?

[Boxiel]

lol get your claws out mad...

Why don't we up our time out?

[le harry]

blates only did it too make themselves feel better about being second too hxf.

[---MAD---]

lol get your claws out mad...

Why don't we up our time out?

I don't really know how to say it without offending other forums out there but the simple fact is, we want the list updated to give true readings on the forums activity.

Although vbulletin.com itself uses a 30 minute session expiration limit, we could consider upping to that but I don't see any benefits from doing so to be honest. At least on our list if it says "Online" theres a bigger chance the user is still actually online.

Come to think of it..one benefit would be that users who don't know about the time limit would know which forum is really more popular out of the all other popular Habbo forums.

Again I want to stress I am not bashing any other Habbo fansite here only stating a few facts in regards to the online list on most forum software.

[CHA!NGANG]

;o You should go over there (FORUM) and sort them out MAD!

[Test:Tube:Baby]

That's great... :rolleyes:

[---MAD---]

;o You should go over there (FORUM) and sort them out MAD!

I know your joking but I would never want to start a "fansite war" or anything like that with another fansite. Not really appropriate and doesn't solve anything. I much rather be friends with the owners/management and share advice .

[Slowpoke]

Did you know about session expiration limit option in vBulletin before reading this thread?

No I didn't and I still don't understand what it is lol

[PHPfreak.]

I was looking at the official fansite list yesterday and I saw a fansite called habbos.net which I registered on ages ago and simply forgotten about.

To my surprise, when going on it I saw it had more users than Habbox forum!!

I was going crazy thinking how is this possible and how we never knew about this and never heard about the fansite for so long!

It turns out this is because their online sessions expire after at least 1 hour! Therefore a user logged on 1 hour ago and a user browsing right now would be displayed as online on their list which explains the huge number of guests and also the large amount of users online throughout the day (they had 72, we had 67 when writing this up).

Habbox Forum has a 15 minute session expiration! Therefore we had 67 users in 15 minutes. They had 72 in the whole hour.

Now I don't feel as stupid or blind !

This is in no way bashing their forum or anything - I think it's a great community they have going and wish them nothing but the best of luck! I only wish vBulletin forced all forums to use the same inactive session expiration limit (or at least a way to find out how many users are on in the last say.. 5 minutes to really tell how active a forum is) as for the average user, they probably don't even know about session expiring times etc and just think "Oh hey this forum seems more popular, I am going to join!".

Did you know about session expiration limit option in vBulletin before reading this thread?

Yeah happened to a forum I ran before, and wondered why it was happening until someone told me about it and to put it lower

But habbos is kind of erm "cheating"

[crans]

Yep, the default session is 900 seconds = 15 mins.