FUCKKING WP AND IT'S REGESTRATON!

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It's a bit of a myth that there's a gazillion people at WP. Many of the accounts are sock puppets of banned members, plus Alex has a few socks of his own.

Someone once said something which raised the question of the number of people online. Before the new server, there were lots of complaints about slow loading and the video, and someone mentioned it might help if the site logged people off when they left as who knows how many are perma logged on and never return. Don't think it got a response though.

...it...doesn't work that way.

[Osensitive1]

Ah. Most likely why they got no response.

[Natalia Evans]

I just wanna be a member  and i'v been trying. I get this message

"To finish the registration process you should visit the following link in the next 24 hours to activate your user account, otherwise the information will be automaticaly deleted by the system and you should apply again"

WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THAT SHIT? "you should visit th following link in the next 24 hours"  NEXT 24 HOURS? HOW AM  SUPOSED TO KNOW WHEN THE TIME IS UP AND I CAN LOG IN? why don't you send me the link in then next 24 HOURS you lazy piece of fucking shit.
Fucking Alex. Is it some kind of aspie thing he has?

does it have to be exactly 24 hours when I need to click the link? I signed up and it's too fucing late  
I think i'm a couple ours late. WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE EXACTLY 24 HOURS? JUST SEND ME THE LINK IN 24 HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!

What an idiotic sign up process. Good luck with your site Alex you fucking dumb ass.

I just realized you're Beatle Girl. Don't you already have an account there?

[Osensitive1]

...it...doesn't work that way.

Okay. Now interested in how it does work. If someone doesn't log out, how does it not effect the online numbers.

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...it...doesn't work that way.

Okay. Now interested in how it does work. If someone doesn't log out, how does it not effect the online numbers.

Member A logs in. Member A looks at a few pages, then closes the window and walks away.

From Member A's perspective, he's still logged in, but the server only "challenges" - checks login credentials - when they request a page.

So, Member A comes onto the site, opens a thread and reads it. Now, say he's reading it for 15 minutes without changing page - from the sites point of view, he's not online, because he's not made a page request in fifteen minutes, so he'll drop off the "Who's Online" list.

Whether or not you are logged into a forum isn't stored there - the login credentials are stored locally, on your machines (which is what Cookies do).

It doesn't have to be fifteen minutes, I'm just going by AFF's setting.

[Osensitive1]

Edit: Had to read that twice to get it.

Thanks for explaining.

[Gluey]

And why would you want to join there? If it's purely for the lulz, then I understand.

cuz im bored theirs nothing to do

[Mr Smith]

Yeah all it means is you have a day to click the link.

Usually the link arrives straight away, also you should check your spam because i've had WP links going there for some reason.

The reason for the time limit is to increase security of the forum, similar to the alphanumeric text you have to type in to avoid bots etc or fake registrations. Not so common on smaller forums, (Although on mine it had to be done prtty quickly to fix a spammer problem) but a huge problem on larger ones.

They just say 24 hours to imply if the link isn't sent straight away, giving you enough time to get it before it expires.

[DukeNukem]

Gluey must have eaten too much glue during childhood.

[Scrapheap]

Gluey must have eaten too much glue during childhood.

So how long did it take you to think up that witteah comment?? 

[Phlexor]

Gluey must have eaten too much glue during childhood.

So how long did it take you to think up that witteah comment?? 

Plus she admitted to sniffing it as a reason for the name. So yeah...