Not using a heartbeat

[bernatfortet]

Hey guys,

Just found this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13544333/how-to-track-the-number-of-anonymous-users-server-side-in-meteor

Since meteor uses sockets, in my opinion, it is much reliable and elegant to use a socket closing event to determine presences.

Did you already took a look at this? Do you think it's worth implementing?

[tmeasday]

I did consider using the socket connection but, to be honest, I can't really remember why I abandoned that method.

Coming at it fresh, I would ask the following questions:

1. Can we know the userId of the user based on their socket connection?
2. Can we attach data to the connection (Prescence.state) ?

Let me know if you find out more -- definitely worth investigating again I think.

[bernatfortet]

Hey, I've just found this package: https://github.com/mizzao/meteor-user-status
They use sockets to define the presence of the user.
It's works really well and also adds a couple of events for when a user logs in and out.

[snshn]

I believe it's worth a shot.
It surely will become much faster, using sockets, while consuming less http traffic.