• sexy_peach@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think the “x users online” thing in lemmy is bugged as hell. It’s never correct for feddit.de, mostly waaaaaay higher than could be correct.

    • nutomic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Its the number of open websocket connections, so it also counts users who are not logged in or individual tabs which are opened by the same user.

      • sexy_peach@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Ah, interesting, thanks. How long does such a websocket connection last, if a user leaves the website?

        • nutomic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I think it should be closed immediately, at least in theory. Anyway we are going to remove websocket in the next major version, then that counter will probably also be gone.