Display "last seen" information for not online users

[rockneverdies55]

I think it's sometimes useful to know since when user was not online.

Support for displaying the last time user was seen online would be nice to have feature.

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[k0nsl]

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[marceloschmidt]

That's available for admins. Not too hard to make it available for all.

[cyclops24]

+1

[ccfang]

@rockneverdies55 This issue should already be provided when open the permission view-full-other-user-info

[TwizzyDizzy]

@rocket-cat close

Hi @rockneverdies55

Support for displaying the last time user was seen online would be nice to have feature.

I'm not sure, whether there exists data collection to provide you with the time a person was last active. Currently the time that can be seen by getting assigned the view-full-other-user-info privilege is taken from MongoDB collection users, the attribute (dunno if that's the correct terminology) is called lastLogin and reflects the last actual successfull login process.

So I think the "feature" you requested already exists. If you do not agree, please let me know :)

Cheers
Thomas

[tahajahangir]

"Last seen" or "last online" time is not last login time. Users may have open sessions for days or weeks. Many messaging platforms (e.g whatsapp or telegram) provide precise last online time (e.g 3 minutes ago).

@TwizzyDizzy This is a separate feature (and also may need server side implementation to store last online time in a high-write-capable db, e.g redis). I think the issue can be reopened (and should not have subj: ui/ux tag).

[vynmera]

This should really be reopened. Last seen is very, very useful for teams!

Last login is not accurate to last seen, last seen should be based on something like our autoaway, not session logins, durations, etc.

Furthermore, we need to keep from abusing view-full-other-user-info. I can't stress this enough, but that permissions is an insecure overkill.
Using that permission, you can for example find out whether someone is "invisible" or actually offline. Something you really don't want!!

[Tayyaba03]

Hi, I have a question where do you see user info if view-full-other-user-info is turned on. As for me, I don't see the last login details of the user on user info.

[BenWiederhake]

This indeed should be reopened. Humans tend to be reachable in multiple ways, and this indicator is a easy and rather reliable way to tell when the other person will be online again. "Last seen 7 months ago"? Ah, better write a mail. "Last seen 3 hours ago"? Great, they actually use our group's slack instance!

From what I gather, the info is already there in the database, and users can easily opt-out by setting their status to "invisible". What's stopping this feature? Just lack of motivated implementers, or something else?