how can i get the #1 spot?

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What i find amazing is that SB2 isn't even on the list.
The odds that a list would be produced and i wasn't logged in at the time must be astronomical.

I did see Namoken on the list. I think the odds of producing a list with neither he, nor i, are on the list must be .0001% probability.

I'd keep an eye out for this myself, but i'd be on that list.

It's possible there were more than 40 people logged in, and that the screen wasn't scrolled down. Fret not.

ya, quit yer whinin' i'm not on the list either!

SB2

Is last on the list today.

SB2

How does that feel that You are last on the list.

Hang in there, bud - we've just about got 'em outflanked!

I'd say he has the session data for each of the users in a database table and the script used to generate the page simply takes a list out of the database and however the entries are entered in the table is how they appear.

I did that on a page I started once... which is very much dead. Hardly gets used anymore, and is long overdue to be completely overhauled.

that explains everything!

the last shall be first!

I had just started a new thread when it happened to me. A correlation?

Don't think so. But I don't watch as closely as some.

So has anyone figured out what it takes to get to number one yet?

i go with aaron's theory

You know, it's really frustrating to want to know the answer to something (so how are the members sorted) but not be able to understand the answer. I know the words are in English, but they make no sense to me at all. Can somebody please explain what this means, in non-technospeak? Please?

Haha, I'll try... I've been saying this in various ways and in various threads for a while now. Also frustrating to try to explain and nobody seems to notice.

When you login to WP it is stored in a 'table', which is part of a database on the WP server.
--> WP takes notes on when you visit.

After a certain amount of time you get dropped from this table. Until then, even if you log out and in again, you are still on the WP list. This time is one day.
--> After one day, you are taken off the WP list.

This is when you have the opportunity to be number one. I don't want to tell exactly how, but hopefully the above will help.

Sorry alyssa, I'll do my best to translate from the jargon.

When you log onto this website, it creates what's called a 'session', where information about your activities on the website is recorded - this info is only used to generate the "Who's Online" list and the "People Online" information, nobody but the administrator has access to this information.

The session info for each user online is stored in a data table, from which the website then takes a list of names off and displays the list as you see it. When it takes the data out for the list, whatever order it is in is how it is displayed.

How's that?

Sorry Aaron your ball.

That's cool, hermit, if mine's too complicated yours would probably work better - I didn't even see your post until after I did mine.