Not enough people have posted here for us to say whether or not I'm in a minority; I count five people who expressed approval. You could be annoying the heck out of everyone and no one bothers reading / posting here. (Also, Sean counts as 10.) With 15 minutes, it was inaccurate, but much more accurate than 30. You're catching all the people who check the MB for a minute and leave. I'm not going to go into the mathematics of it, but I'm pretty sure doubling the time more than doubles the inaccuracy.

I say "check the short posts first" because how often does someone type something that takes more than 15 minutes? I do maybe once a month. Why are we changing the way everything works to suit something that is the exception to the rule? The vast majority of posts don't take 15 minutes to type.

All we've done is changed one problem into another problem; now I have to suit the current problem, whereas in the past there was no problem. I was happy before, and everyone else was happy enough not to complain about it for the past 5 years.

Let's remove the currently active user list and the user counts from the main index if we're keeping it like this, if I'm going to have to check people's last activity time anyways. It no longer serves any purpose to display that data.