In each forum there’s a thin red line followed by “last visit”. This useful feature seems like a really simple thing to ascertain by Discourse. But apparently it’s not, as it can be wrong by several hours. Recently I was away for about 24 hours, yet in each forum my “last visit” went back only 6 hours. Why can’t this inaccuracy be corrected?
Did you have multiple devices open browsing the website? Or multiple tabs in the same browser? That’s usually the reason.
“Presence” is a 10 minute window where no web browser (where you are logged in as you) has pinged the website.
No, I use only one device, an iMac, and only one tab open. I’m still finding threads beneath the red line that I’ve never seen.
I was just away for about 24 hours. All the “last visit” lines are at 2 hours ago.
I have noticed recently the opposite problem, sort of, and I think it started when my Opera browser updated and upgraded me to Opera One.
When I open the site during the morning, the “last visit” line on all forums is about right, around 12 to 13 hours. I browse through the forums, open and read in a fair number of threads, make a few posts in some of those threads, and close the program. Later in the day, if I go in again, none of the “last visit” lines have moved to show the activity from earlier in the day. In any case, I go through the forums again in the same way. Still later again, in the evening, all of the “last visit” lines have re-positioned to about the correct amount of time.
None of this is a real problem, mostly I was wondering if anyone else has seen this effect.