So, f13 is turning five! FIVE!! 5!!1!

[tazelbain]

Ya, there's that.

[WayAbvPar]

Total time logged in: 353 days, 18 hours and 47 minutes.

Meaningless numbers are meaningless.  You just have to have the browser open in the background. 

Granted, this is your baby so you should have a big number... others may/may not have lots of time online because it sits idle all day while they work. 

How exactly does it count this? Like I said, I literally almost never close my browser, and F13 is on the first tab. Shouldn't I have a much higher number? Or does it go by how long that tab/browser holds focus? I am a fast reader...

[Nebu]

How exactly does it count this? Like I said, I literally almost never close my browser, and F13 is on the first tab. Shouldn't I have a much higher number? Or does it go by how long that tab/browser holds focus? I am a fast reader...

Damn you and your ability to recognize that I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.

[MrHat]

I just don't read anything really.  Maybe 5-8 words out of each post.

[WayAbvPar]

How exactly does it count this? Like I said, I literally almost never close my browser, and F13 is on the first tab. Shouldn't I have a much higher number? Or does it go by how long that tab/browser holds focus? I am a fast reader...

Damn you and your ability to recognize that I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.

Heh. Although to your credit, you normally know more about things than most. Or maybe you just pick your spots? 

[Samwise]

How exactly does it count this? Like I said, I literally almost never close my browser, and F13 is on the first tab. Shouldn't I have a much higher number? Or does it go by how long that tab/browser holds focus? I am a fast reader...

My guess is that it's "actively browsing" time.  At the bottom of the index there's a list of users "active in the last 15 minutes".  I'm thinking it's essentially counting up the amount of time that your name is on that list.  So it's not just having your browser open, it's having your browser open and having clicked or refreshed something in the last 15 minutes.

[Tarami]

I imagine it's like this;
It has one counter for accumulated time.
It has a timestamp of the most recent login.
It has a timestamp of the most recent activity.

Every page visit refreshes the activity timestamp. If you let the session lapse (15 minutes), you will get (time of activity - time of login) added to your accumulated time next time you log in, and the timestamps will reset to current time. Meaning, if you just pull it up after the session has expired and just hit a refresh, you won't get more than a couple milliseconds of activity time, at most (unless they're set at the same time.)

[Trippy]

Meaningless numbers are meaningless.  You just have to have the browser open in the background. 

No, you need a browser window open in the background that auto-refreshes itself if you want to rack up the "logged in" time. After you "idle" for a bit it no longer considers you "logged in" until you refresh/load a page again. If you watch the Users Online section at the bottom of the main page you can see this in action as people move down the list and eventually disappear as they idle.

[Nebu]

I admitted my ignorance.  I need to be more careful next time I get snippy.

[Ironwood]

Grats on breaking 10,000, you catass. Though, the combined 10,000 posts probably add up to 3 paragraphs.

You're right.  Double What The Fuck.

[schild]

No one has commented that I brought back my first f13 avatar. Shame.

Edit: (a couple others did also, not counting Ironwood, because I don't think he ever changed it. In fact, he's still a fan of artifacts I see)

[Ookii]

Wasn't mine Jolie smoking?  I forgot.

[Ironwood]

I used to have the avatar of that Brain guy from The Onion, but that was pre-F13, I think.  I'm sure Zod has always been me here.  (Damn, I can't remember the Brain guys name...)

Artifacts ?  Me confused.

[schild]

Wasn't mine Jolie smoking?  I forgot.

Yes, yours is in that archive.

[Nonentity]

Five! That's quite a few years.

It feels like I've been here longer for that. Is that the world weariness setting in?

[Johny Cee]

Wow.  Five years, really?  Seems just the other day that I was reading Schild's intro post on Waterthread.

[UnSub]

Five years? Who's a big boy now? Let's all go out for some icecream and soda pop to celebrate!

... was Waterthread really that long ago? Wow. I signed up here just after CoH launched.

[schild]

Wow.  Five years, really?  Seems just the other day that I was reading Schild's intro post on Waterthread.

:troll:

[Triforcer]

I think my avatar has been the same the whole time...and I remember schild's VERY first LTM diaspora avatar...drawing of a squirrelly looking East European type...

[Johny Cee]

Wow.  Five years, really?  Seems just the other day that I was reading Schild's intro post on Waterthread.

:troll:

 

[murdoc]

The avatar collection is awesome. The Maxim girls are still there, I thought they disappeared in the great HDD crash of 2006.

[FatuousTwat]

I'm pretty sure my first avatar was the Japanese Ronald McDonald this one.

[sidereal]

Aw, seeing Haemish's old avatar gets me all verklempt.

I don't think this is my first avatar, but it's a goodie.

[Abagadro]

I'll go retro for the occasion as well.  Apropos of nothing, it looks like I cruised past 5k posts without even noticing.

Thanks for providing a sandbox that allows me to (mostly) keep my sanity.

[trias_e]

I still remember being quite young, reading archives of LtM and wishing I was born a few years earlier, finding waterthread and witnessing whatever the fuck went on, reading some site I can't remember (it's tag line was motherfuck you funcom) and arcadian del sol.  Goodtimes.  Glad f13 lives and carries on the lineage of nostalgia...

[ShenMolo]

Happy Birthday!

[sigil]

So, isn't it about time for Schild to run off to an industry job where he can  shack up with some midget transvetite prostitute with the server funds? 

I bet he hasn't wrriten the long rambling nonsensical goodbye post or setup his  wordpress account.


You have deadlines and standards to meet good sir. How dare you let this community grow!

[Johny Cee]

I'll go retro for the occasion as well.  Apropos of nothing, it looks like I cruised past 5k posts without even noticing.

Thanks for providing a sandbox that allows me to (mostly) keep my sanity.

Yeah for Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer!

[apocrypha]

f13.net has attained the achievement "Level 5"! Ding! Grats 

[Cyrrex]

I'm pretty sure that means I can train my AOE posting skill now.  Postcount ++ !

[Gutboy Barrelhouse]

5 years that is the holy grail, now like any TV show F13 can go into reruns at 6:30pm

[squirrel]

Huh. 5 eh? Crankiest bunch of 5 year olds I ever knowed.

Heh, my first avatar is there too!

[HaemishM]

reading some site I can't remember (it's tag line was motherfuck you funcom)

I think that was Watts' site Your Daily Dose. He had some funny stuff for a few months.

[Morfiend]

Any one else feel scared and slightly disturbed that schild is an admin?

I would just like to quickly add that my feelings haven't changed all that much.

 

[hal]

For a site I saw in a thread called under the radar. I was looking for a site to read about games that was not blocked by work (I work for the fed). The site works the forums function. The community here rocks so hard. I lurk more than I post but I do post some. I really need to thank all of you for letting me get to know you. And I really need to thank the management team for making this all possible. This site succeeds because it is successful. Oh crap the spell checker is on fire again.