User Statistics

January 10, 2002 4:07 PM

I liked the little thingie that told how many users are on
MeFi at a time. What happened to it?
posted by Lynsey to feature requests at 4:07 PM (8 comments total)

Miguel killed it.
*refresh, refresh, refresh...*
posted by ColdChef at 4:14 PM on January 10, 2002

That's a feature of metafilter pro. Its $20 a year and you get to delete one post a day!
posted by skallas at 4:17 PM on January 10, 2002

I liked that too in a childish way.Like seeing a plane and wondering where it was going and who was on it I would wonder who the other 200 or so were and where they were.
I'll get me coat.
posted by Fat Buddha at 5:04 PM on January 10, 2002

It was a useless doodad that was taking up resources so I took it down.
posted by mathowie at 5:50 PM on January 10, 2002

I dispute the "useless doodad" claim. I can say nothing in the face of "was taking up resources," however. :(
posted by rushmc at 5:59 PM on January 10, 2002

I think I could classify as a useless doodad that takes up resources.
I stand before the god-like floating head in preparation for judgement.


posted by machaus at 6:09 PM on January 10, 2002

Well, it was fun while it lasted. Thanks,
Matt. I kinda figured it was a resource
issue. :-(
posted by Lynsey at 8:09 PM on January 10, 2002

It was a useless doodad that was taking up resources so I took it down.

You could cache the result and refresh it only every 5-15 minutes or so...that would hardy be resource intensive at all.
posted by jkottke at 11:40 PM on January 10, 2002