Is it possible to check current online players in the realm?

Is there any way (macro, script, addon, command, API method?) to check how many online players are in the realm you're connected to?

2 Answers

The Census addon provides lovely minimalistic graphs/statistics about the realm population (classes, races, lvls, guilds). It does that by performing a series of /who so that it covers the whole population.

Each scan takes about 2 minutes (on my server) and at the end you get a small chat report that is like

Found 120 new characters and saw 580 existing

From which you can conclude that there are 700 characters online.

Have you tried /who? I think I remember that working

Edit: I found a simply LOVELY site after some googling: It looks exactly like what you need. If you need something more than a website, I think this is where my help ends