Answered What *really* happens when a user is "Viewing Forum List XX Minutes Ago?"

[Count Gensokyo]

Sometimes, I'll see a user "viewing the forum list 58 minutes ago," for example, and I'll still wait for them to potentially reply to an rp only for their status to finally show up as "offline" some time later. Does this status essentially mean that someone is away-from-keyboard?

 

[Chordling]

Sometimes they are actually viewing the forum list. Other times, they are just AFK. No real science behind it though.

 

[yaint]

this is the forum list
it just means someone's looking at the homepage when you see that status
if it's xx minutes ago then they're probably no longer online
that's basically it tbh