How do I see who's viewing a thread?

[Lucifiel]

Is there any way I can see who's viewing a thread?

If not, would you guys mind implementing this feature if it isn't too forum-intensive? I feel that such a feature might perhaps lead to a more balanced spread of replies.

Like: if you can see that ____ is reading a thread and that _____ is replying to a thread, then there would be less duplicate replies.

[matthew]

We had this when the forum was less active. As we grew it got to be too taxing for the server. I'm sorry. It is a cool feature, I wish we could turn it back on.

[Lucifiel]

Ooh, it's all right then. :)

It's okay, if a feature causes too much server load, then it's best to remove it. :p

[hanzj]

Matthew,
Can't Canonical just give UbuntuForums the hardware we want/need?