No proof at all.....I saw post from members in a forum, then they logged of and then a "last online" 2 hours ago appears......
no idea where they took the time from, its wrongly calculated
Member profile page/Last online & Mobile application
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ProphetessMio wrote:
No proof at all.....I saw post from members in a forum, then they logged of and then a "last online" 2 hours ago appears......
no idea where they took the time from, its wrongly calculated
That may just mean the displayed information is outdated (possibly by a few hours). I don't really care right now if the date is inaccurate. If it says, "Last Online: 3 hrs ago", does it mean the user was online in the last 24 hours? Or could something, like the smartphone app, make the servers think the user was online when they, in fact, weren't?
When you go to the profile page of a member (e.g. mine is https://www.chess.com/member/WhiteDrake), there is a section called "Last Online". It may hold information like "Online Now", or "3 hrs ago".
Assume a member has also a chess.com app installed on their smart phone. The app stores the login credentials to their chess.com account and periodically polls the chess.com servers for updates and so the mobile app can notify the user when they get a friendship request, when their opponents make a move in a daily game etc.
Here comes the question. When you see, let's say, "Last Online: 3 hrs ago" on someone's profile page, does it mean they actually logged on earlier that day (via a web browser or the mobile app), or could it be that their mobile app just automatically polled the chess.com servers for data but the user themselves didn't take any action? In other words, does the "Last Online" section give a proof of the user logon activity?