[MichaelaChung]

How can you tell how many active users are online at a time?

[Robin W]

bbpress just uses wordpress login, so you can display the number of wordpress users online

eg

WP-UserOnline

http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-show-real-time-online-users-in-wordpress/

but as to how many are in a forum, I don’t know of anything that would be clever enough to do that

[timsilva_]

@michaelachung This is an excellent plugin that has a list/counter of online users: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-improved-statistics-users-online/

[Milan Petrovic]

Hi,

My GD bbPress Toolbox Pro plugin has users online status tracking feature, enhanced statistics block for forum front end, enhanced statistics widget (and a lot of other features):

https://plugins.dev4press.com/gd-bbpress-toolbox/

If you want to test plugin (admin side and front end), you can request a demo here:
https://www.dev4press.com/request-demo/

Regards,
Milan Petrovic