I am as eager to see this issue resolved as everyone. The discussion about the accuracy of numbers of people visiting a forum (based on the information extracted from Joomla and displayed by
Kunena) has gone on for nearly 2 years and I think it's time we faced up to some inescapable conclusions.
Speaking only for myself, I have no interest in knowing whether the online user counts are correct or not because I simply do not look at such information when I am moderating a forum as busy as this one here.
K 2.0.0 fixes hundreds of issues with K 1.7.2. The list is far too big for me to search through the list (and the list
may be incomplete) but you can check for yourself.
github.com/Kunena/Kunena-2.0/commits/master
There will be no fix offered for K 1.7.2. We are past that stage now and this topic has served its purpose.
K 1.7.x is at end of life and support for this series will cease on 31 August 2012. For this reason, this topic is now locked and further discussion about the "wrong online users count" should take place within the context of K 2.0.
The mechanism for counting the online users is the same mechanism used by Joomla and, if Joomla has a problem with the way that sessions are counted, then people should complain on the Joomla forums. It's bizarre when we say this and people think we are offering excuses for something faulty in
Kunena. Whenever we write "the online user count in
Kunena uses whatever Joomla uses" people tell us that we are talking nonsense or in denial. Well, that doesn't change the facts.
In conclusion, I want to make three final points:
(1) The online user count in
Kunena uses whatever Joomla uses. If the online user count is wrong in Joomla then it's wrong in
Kunena and it will never be properly fixed in
Kunena until Joomla gets it right. If people want to complain about this issue then they should complain in
forum.joomla.org
(2) People can disable the function in
Kunena or, if we all agree it would be for the best, the
Kunena developers can disable this feature in future versions. Disabling the feature will probably lower everyone's blood pressure enormously (especially mine :lol:).
(3) We cannot solve this issue in K 1.7
In any event, please test K 2.0.0.