whos amung us ?

Worker Joined: Feb 18, 2006 Posts: 155 Location: Virginia

A regular user to my site has reported seeing at the bottom of his screen
on our homepage, a link with this in it:
"whos amung us / swidget / ****.gif"

It's some type of visitor tracking widget. I don't have anything like this
installed on the site. Could this be something in his browser?

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

Maybe, or it could be something a free host adds. Have you sought independent verification by asking others to check this on your site?

registered · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:18 am

I am not seeing it in the HTML when I view source and do a Find...

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:04 pm

I use it at my website for some time now Wink

http://whos.amung.us/

Pretty handy and fun nifty thing.
I know they distribute a Firefox add-on as well, perhaps he is using that?

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:03 pm

Yeah, I didn't see it in any of my source code either. I'll check with some
other users as well.

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:31 am

warren-the-ape, hhhmmmm.... that IS pretty cool. I hadn't seen this before. I wonder if it could be integrated somehow into Raven's WhoIsWhere block. I like some of the additional features.

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:55 am

Yep, think so too Cool

On my site I just included it into the footer(s) of my theme(s), didnt saw another quick solution Razz

The only problem would be, that all the stuff is hosted on another server and around half a year ago the little image was down quite some times. It feels and looks more stable since a couple of months now. I dont think everyone wants to be dependant of other servers/hosters?

I wanted to use it cause it shows how much people are online at any given moment (time of refresh), instead of the standard *nuke list which is updated i dunno every half hour or so?

I just use it as a little add-on, nothing more nothing less.

Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:27 am

Raven's WhoIsWhere block is in an iframe, so at least that wouldn't stop the rest of the site to load. However, point well taken.

Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:03 am

www.eztools.com do a nice widget though it doesn't show the number of people online in real-time but the stats generation is really nice.
Here's the stats page for my little blog;
http://counters.eztools.com/stats/?id=518338#summary

Regular Joined: Nov 29, 2006 Posts: 64 Location: TN, USA

I use the Who Amung Us widget too, but I alter it to just 2px x 2px.
Now it just looks like a 'bolded' period after "Ravennuke TEAM' in my footer. Very Happy