ok, with 7.0.2, details for who's online would show me everyone, lurkers, users, etc.

with 7.1, it tells me something like "7 registered (Bryce, 2 invisible) and 10 anonymous users online." yet the details will show 1 person at the most...

have tried changing the build time, etc.. seems like something is missing?

I've seen this happen on one other install. It appears it's a problem with the query on certain servers since we switched the online table to a heap table. Need to figure out a proper fix.

thank you for the feed back.

just curious, is there any time frame for this?

Drives me nuts when I see it say "XX registered users online" and I click details and it only ever shows me 1 user.

I'm trying to figure out a fix for all users. It's something mysql version specific, and so far I haven't found a query that will match under all versions. As soon as I can then I'll get a fix out.

thank you for the update.
for some reason my members seem to be really concerned about this not working.. they don't seem to understand when I tell them it is a known issue and being worked on.. oh well.

I think I may have something that will work on all servers with the table change. I'll see if I can get something posted for a short term fix in the next day or two.

Ok, it appears the only way to fix this is going to a LIKE query. You can edit scripts/online.inc.php:

Line 89 has:

WHERE t1.ONLINE_USER_TYPE = 'r'

Change that, to this:

WHERE t1.ONLINE_USER_TYPE like '%r%'

Next, line 196 has:

WHERE ONLINE_USER_TYPE = 'a'

Change that, to this:

WHERE ONLINE_USER_TYPE like '%a%'

I always figured it was a caching issue - when I clicked on the 'details' page it updated the cache and showed the correct info in the portal island

This is something different. What you're referring to is caching. This problem on some servers would make it so when you went to the online page it would only list 1 user no matter how many were actually online.