It does not really show the users who are online. If you close the tab or leave the website without logging you out, it still counts you as logged in.
The user online count is being inflated to make the website appear more active than it is.
And Good has proven that he's willing to lie to his users to manipulate them to do what he wants. My software may have been buggy, but I never outright lied about who was online and who wasn't.
This is a new era for SC.