# No "Last Activity" line, why? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 24, 2013, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-last-activity-line-why/667093 "2013-08-24T22:53:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-last-activity-line-why/667093/21 "2013-08-26T02:50:21Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > I just switched to Invisible mode. Can someone check my last activity? If it’s gone, as it should be, we’ll have confirmation. Don’t see it. > [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > I haven’t changed anything about mine at all. > > Weird. Yours I do see. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-last-activity-line-why/667093/22 "2013-08-26T11:47:19Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > I just switched to Invisible mode. Can someone check my last activity? If it’s gone, as it should be, we’ll have confirmation. Not shown in your profile. Does anyone else see the last activity line in **TubaDiva’s** profile? I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-last-activity-line-why/667093/23 "2013-08-26T11:54:30Z")
Here’s what an admin at [another vBulletin forum](http://forums.corvetteforum.com/help-forum/2534315-last-activity.html) says: > [@](#): > > When a user sets themselves to Invisible mode (User CP, Edit Options and “Use Invisible Mode”), that user’s online status will never be shown to other regular users. Regular users will always see those people as offline (gray indicator). In addition, those users who have set Invisible mode will not have a last visit/activity date shown on their profile to other users. > > Now, there is an override. Staff can see people who have elected to be Invisible mode. Those people who have elected be Invisible mode will show up as a red status icon to not only staff but to themselves. Staff, as well as themselves, will also see a last visit/activity date on the profile. However, no regular member can see another member online if they have elected to be invisible. > > I think this is why you are confused. You set yourself to Invisible Mode and you can see your own online status (last activity/visit date in your profile, and a red icons status). No regular user will see this. Only the person who sets themselves to Invisible Mode will see their own status, as well as staff. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-last-activity-line-why/667093/24 "2013-08-26T12:19:59Z")
> [@](#): > > Only the person who sets themselves to Invisible Mode will see their own status, as well as staff. Concealed within his fortress, the lord of Mordor sees all. His gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth, and flesh. You know of what I speak: a great Eye, lidless, wreathed in flame. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-last-activity-line-why/667093/25 "2013-08-26T15:12:03Z")
Ah, invisible mode! I thought it just didn’t show you online in real time but apparently it also doesn’t show where you were either. I never thought of that. Because it was invisible. Staffers see everything so invisible mode doesn’t matter to us, that’s why I see it and you don’t. Forgot about that too. I do apologize. This is not a bug, it’s a feature. Really. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-last-activity-line-why/667093/26 "2013-08-26T15:36:18Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Staffers see everything … Ah ha! So you _admit_ you can see PMs, do you? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-last-activity-line-why/667093/27 "2013-08-26T16:38:59Z")
Bump: > [@Musicat](#): > > **TubaDiva,** are you operating in invisible mode? If you don’t want to reveal it publicly, please PM me. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-last-activity-line-why/667093/28 "2013-08-26T22:23:27Z")
Poof! Now I should be visible again. Luckily nothing bad or embarrassing ever happens from that. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-last-activity-line-why/667093/29 "2013-08-26T23:21:32Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > Poof! Now I should be visible again. > > Luckily nothing bad or embarrassing ever happens from that. Who said that? Is someone there? Hello?? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-last-activity-line-why/667093.md?page=1)