Overview

Description

A lot of communities are more active than they look.

Members visit.
They browse.
They read.
They come back.

But unless someone is posting right now, that presence is invisible.

Active Members makes that activity visible - quietly and visually.

It adds a simple Active Members widget that shows real members who’ve been around recently, helping your forum feel alive without turning it into a status board.

Presence That Matches the Page

Active Members adapts to where it’s shown.

• On a topic, it shows members who’ve been active in that discussion

• On a forum, it shows members who’ve been active in that forum

• On pages that don’t track individual activity, it gracefully falls back to a global community view

Every placement feels relevant, not recycled.

This makes the widget feel contextual and intentional - not like the same block repeated everywhere.

Clean, Adaptive Layout

The avatar display automatically adjusts to available space:

• Shows as many avatars as fit

• Neatly collapses extras into a “+X” indicator

• Looks good on desktop, tablet, and mobile

You don’t need to design around it.
It adapts on its own.

Presence

Controls who counts as “active”.

• Presence time window

  • Numeric value (e.g. 24)

• Time unit

  • Minutes, hours, days, weeks, or year

Together, these define which members are considered active and eligible to appear in the widget.

Example:
“Members who visited in the past 24 hours” or “past year”.

Display

Controls how the widget looks and behaves.

Avatar Display

• Default avatar size

• Maximum avatars

• Adaptive avatar count

Visual Indicators

• Online indicator

• Online indicator color

Text Display

• Summary text

• Time period text

Widget-Level Overrides

Each widget instance can override global settings, including:

• Custom title

• Presence window & unit

• Context mode (auto / global / forum / topic)

• Avatar size

• Maximum avatars

• Online indicator and color

• Tooltips

• Summary text options

This allows the same app to behave differently depending on where it’s placed.