New Totse

I noticed it shows who is online in each individual section, or using a certain page. Like, if I'm in Spurious and Das Troll is in Half Baked, I won't see him on the "who is online" list.

youve been taking too many lessons from googlespy and faecesbook with their propensity for stalking

Oh, hush. It's fun to see who else is currently active, and every member can log in as invisible.

Plus, this bug makes stalking easier because I can see who else is reading each THREAD.

unless someone happens to have the particular window open then gets up to answer the phone...or take a shit...or make a sammich...and isnt even at the keyboard.

It's kind of an odd bug. I fail to see your argument though. It's still reporting the last window opened on the site.

Taking a shit counts are a valid excuse.
.You should implement a 'last request' policy on which the 'ONLINE' status is based off, I am sure phpBB can do that, else if it behaves strangely give the phpBB forums a whirl and see if you can get anything useful from those folks.

I'm 70% sure the option is there. I'm sure I'll dig through settings to satisfy my curiosity at some point this evening.