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What determines "Last Active" time?

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Is it documented anywhere which actions cause the "last active" time associated with each user to be updated?

Something like, sending PM, receiving PM, viewing forum?

Can last active be updated through a non user initiated action? For instance, will keeping a tab open to a Role play request forum, or the PMs page, generate last active time updates without the user refreshing the page?
 
Basically just being logged in. The 'last visit' time will always display when that person was last logged in. Though I've found that if a person is logged in for more than 30 minutes without doing anything, it will say they're offline but their last active time will keep updating anyways.

So yeah, just being logged in, nothing else.
 
You know, I honestly do not know. I've yet to figure it out myself and there is no documentation anywhere that I've been able to find. Also, I'm fairly certain that it isn't determined by a non user initiated action. I do believe it has to be done by yourself. My guess is that has to do with when you are last logged in and doing something, but since you can remain logged in indefinitely so long as you have cookies established and all that jazz, it probably gets a bit convoluted in the time.
 
Halaster said:
Basically just being logged in. The 'last visit' time will always display when that person was last logged in. Though I've found that if a person is logged in for more than 30 minutes without doing anything, it will say they're offline but their last active time will keep updating anyways.

So yeah, just being logged in, nothing else.
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Thanks, but that is not my question. My question is not about "last visit" but is instead about "last active", as is in the subject heading for my post.
 
I have absolutely no idea what the difference between 'last active' and 'last visit' are, or what you're even looking at. o_O
 
Oh gosh... I didn't realize people even truly used the buddy list since it's virtually useless at this time (hopefully that'll change in the future though). lol. XD

Anyway, in all honesty, I am not sure what determines it. My initial answer still stands.
 
'Last active' is the exact same thing as 'last visit'. If you check the profiles of the people in your buddy list, you'll see that the last active time is the exact same time as last visit.

They're the same thing, it's just that both sections use different wording for... Some reason.

Also, what I meant by 'being logged in' is not like, logged in, but when they last had the page open in their browser. I know people can stay logged in indefinitely, but they're not really 'logged in' unless they're on the website's page itself.
 
Halaster said:
'Last active' is the exact same thing as 'last visit'. If you check the profiles of the people in your buddy list, you'll see that the last active time is the exact same time as last visit.

They're the same thing, it's just that both sections use different wording for... Some reason.

Also, what I meant by 'being logged in' is not like, logged in, but when they last had the page open in their browser. I know people can stay logged in indefinitely, but they're not really 'logged in' unless they're on the website's page itself.
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I haven't looked at last visit yet, but if it is the same as last active as you say then it cannot be simply the last time logged in, as you suggested. I see in different cases Last Active being updated NUMEROUS times in a half hour period, and so obviously cannot be due to the person logging in and out, as you first proposed.
 
I think the main point we're concluding is that we are not sure what it means. The buddy list itself isn't highly used nor truly useful at this point in the format currently being used. In the future, this will hopefully change along with a lot of other things. I wish we could be more helpful. Perhaps Vek, when he is able to read this, can shed a bit more insight being the technical mind behind everything here at BMR.
 
It's every time a user does something to active a refresh on the page. Clicking a link, refreshing the page, doing anything that loads the page. Staying on the same page without actually doing anything won't reset the last active timer.
 
Activity is logged as long as you stay on the site which will vary over the day if someone is still online.

It stops recording that as soon as someone logs out and the site notes that they aren't online.

The last activity is when they've officially logged out of the site for the day or whatever.
 
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