"Who's Online" Not Operational
 

For the last few days, a feature I use quite often...the "Who's Online" feature....appears to be disabled. I now get this message when I try to use it:

Is this unique to me or has it in fact been disabled systemwide for some reason?
Thanks....

I believe it's system wide

How am I to stalk jfe now??? :(

;)

IMHO anything that reduces the load on FT should be disabled... Perhaps turning off some of these features will bring us back to normal speed...

Huh :confused: still shows on main forum page

The names are there but if you click on their name they will appear as offline in their profile.

Basically you will know if someone is online, but wont be able to see what they are doing.

Couldnt see any point to seeing which thread FTers were viewing/replying anyway.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/member.php?userid=10046

You can always add people to your buddy list ;)

All the bells and whistles that came with the new vBulletin Board are being turned off one by one. First the Reputation Feature and then the Thread Rating and Signature Features....and now this.
I realize the other features were shut down for reasons other than speed. But they're gone nevertheless.
I've got to believe the speed issue with FlyerTalk goes a great deal deeper than checking out Who's Online. Plus this feature has been down for a week and speed hasn't increased one iota for me. Still very slooooooow at times and the next second it zips right along.
But I'm not a techie so I don't have the solution....

I could very well be wrong about this, but I think the speed problems started when the new member reviews area was opened up & a banner placed on top of each post.

Has someone tried turning that off?

The much over-used "Post Reply" button is the one that causes the main problems.

If the techs disable that FT will fly along for us all. ^ ^ ^

The total number of users appears higher than usual for the last couple of weeks. Is that the problem? Additionally, the slowness over the last couple of weeks seems to coincide with the addition of the "quick reply" feature. I hope that isn't the cause.

You can see "Currently Active Users" from the top screen at FT - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/. You can't click on their username to see what they are doing anymore, so no more asking me what I'm doing in the UN forum, Cholula. :p

I realize you can still view currently active viewers. Enquiring minds want to know WHAT they are viewing! I don't want to miss any "fun" stuff on FT.....when I see those on my Buddy List reading a specific thread, it leads me to check it out as well.
Often times, I've cruised through my normal Forums and find nothing compelling. I then check out what others who I respect on FT are viewing and read those threads.
Trust me, when you consider who's on my Buddy List, I've been sent to some VERY strange threads.....:eek:.

I just went to check on some recent posts of another member, and clicked on the "search other posts by xxxxx" icon next to their user name on the thread, and also get the stern "function not permitted" message.

Why are NOT all these things covered by an announcement? It is getting that many of the regular features have been disabled with no advice given to regular users. :confused:

I doubt this function gets much use and puts much drain on the system, but it very useful when you need to use it.