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Presence
Yes, this is supported using WebHooks.
You can register for HTTP events to pushed to your servers using WebHooks whenever a client enters, updates the...
Tue, 1 Mar, 2016 at 1:07 PM
If you're using the javascript client, ably-js, you may have noticed that if you close a tab (or refresh the page etc.), it takes 15 seconds for any...
Wed, 9 Nov, 2016 at 8:45 PM
To avoid any confusion about terminology used, the number of clients that can be attached and subscribed to a channel is unlimited. See the channel pub/s...
Wed, 7 Dec, 2016 at 8:08 AM
To avoid any confusion about terminology used, the number of clients that can be attached and subscribed to a channel is unlimited. See the channel pub/sub...
Sat, 18 Aug, 2018 at 6:05 PM
Yes, that is perfectly valid from our perspective. For example, if a user is present on a channel in their browser and also on their mobile device, then th...
Fri, 5 May, 2017 at 6:57 PM
This is not a feature we offer at this time.
Thu, 26 Jul, 2018 at 8:43 AM
Ably's presence is a powerful feature that allows client devices to subscribe in real time to presence events such as as when users enter, update or le...
Sat, 18 Aug, 2018 at 6:04 PM
You can go to https://rest.ably.io/channels?key=<redacted>, where <redacted> is the key you want to see the channels associated with.
Mon, 3 Sep, 2018 at 5:57 PM
If you want lots of people to be present, but without necessarily listening for presence change events, tokens can be used to prevent all users from receivi...
Fri, 5 Oct, 2018 at 11:03 AM
When a client that is part of the presence set disconnects from the app, due to the app being closed or the network going down, the particular client will c...
Mon, 12 Nov, 2018 at 11:22 AM