Who's viewing this forum/topic enabled

[Steven P. Administrators]

For subscribers. You'll see it at the bottom of pages (like staff related groups do).

 

We said we'd add a feature after the removal of Blogs and this is it.

 

Of course we're open to (smart) suggestions on what we can give to our subscribers, but remember this is a query that adds to the overall server load, so it'll never be enabled for all members.

 

Again, thanks to all our subscribers and members who whitelist and support Neowin. You rock :) (Y)

[FiB3R]

Could/should this be something that is optional for subscribers?

 

Maybe I don't want people knowing what I'm looking at :shiftyninja:

 

Just wondering in theory, I'm not actually bothered.

[Steven P. Administrators]

It's not optional. Staff have followed you around for years  :shiftyninja: Anyway, like I said it's a subscriber perk.. so somewhat limited in who can "follow" you.

 

Edit: if you go "Anonymous" that will hide your activity from non-staff, but it's also one less membername in the active online list on the board index (we have so many guest vs members) :/

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Could/should this be something that is optional for subscribers?

 

Maybe I don't want people knowing what I'm looking at :shiftyninja:

 

Just wondering in theory, I'm not actually bothered.

No way. We're forcing this down your throats whether you like it or not. Just kidding. It's not something that can be enabled or disabled on a per-account basis. You'd have to scroll all the way down to see who's reading a topic so if you don't want to see that, then don't scroll down. ;)