[Board Optimization] Do not show who's online for guests

[ThorstenA]

Do not show who's online for guests
for vbulletin 3.5

Integrated in vbulletin 3.6

What does this product do?

This very easy to use product turns off who's online for guests on forumhome / forumdisplay / showthread and therefore dramaticely improves forum speed if you have lots of guests. Turning off who's online for gaining speed is suggested by eva2000 in vbulletin.com > server configuration forum (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=14). My forum was slow having 150 users browsing my forum, now it's running with more than 300 users online.

Installation information

Files edited: 0
Templates edited: 0
Files to upload: 0
DB Tables changed: 0
Additional queries: 0
Changed queries: 0
Time to install: 10 seconds max


Installation / Update / Deinstallation

Installation: Import the file as a product > admincp > who's online for guests > settings. Done.
Update: Import the file as a product (allow overwrite: yes) > admincp > who's online for guests > settings. Done.
Deinstallation: admincp > manage products > deinstall. Done.


Please click Install (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/vborg_miscactions.php?do=installhack&threadid=111560) if you installed this product. So you can get information if product improves. Thank you.

Updates

1.1 (28-03-2006) option in admincp for forumhome, forumdisplay, showthread
1.0 (28-03-2006) Release


Flagged for future releases

Forumhome

Do not show events
Do not show birthdays

general

Disable search
Do not show forumjump
only disable if server load is higher than x





This hack may not be copied, reproduced or published elswhere without my permission.
Please take attention: I take no responsibility for anything of what this product could do anywhere (forum, other software, server ...).

[ThorstenA]

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[puertoblack2003]

Great hack by the way, But curiuos wouldn't it be nice to view who's online as far as the guest and that way you can tell where they are searching at..reason why i asked because sometimes i can calculate the percentage of the time where the guest goes too and maybe i can make modification to what they are intrested in and have a better chance of them registering..Just Curiuos if this hack suits me...:)

[Snake]

Sweet! Just what I've been looking for. :)

[projectego]

Very useful hack, cheers. :)

[Barakat]

thanks ... great one

[MissKalunji]

I been looking for the same thing! but wouldn't that turn off the display of the bots as well?

[ThorstenA]

Great hack by the way, But curiuos wouldn't it be nice to view who's online as far as the guest and that way you can tell where they are searching at..reason why i asked because sometimes i can calculate the percentage of the time where the guest goes too and maybe i can make modification to what they are intrested in and have a better chance of them registering..Just Curiuos if this hack suits me...:)
Registered users can see the guests surfing the forums. Only the guests do not see who's online.
I been looking for the same thing! but wouldn't that turn off the display of the bots as well?
Registered users can see bots. Only bots as unregistered users can not see who's online.

[coolnikin]

Works fine, thx 4 the plugin :)

[ThorstenA]

New update: Version 1.1 (28-03-2006) option in admincp for forumhome, forumdisplay, showthread

[puertoblack2003]

Registered users can see the guests surfing the forums. Only the guests do not see who's online.

Registered users can see bots. Only bots as unregistered users can not see who's online.

ok gotcha , i'll give it a go ;)

[Snake]

New update: Version 1.1 (28-03-2006) option in admincp for forumhome, forumdisplay, showthread
Thanks for the update again!

[amykhar]

Time for a real stupid question on my part. How does this improve upon the setting that's already in the control panel that turns off who's online by usergroup?

[ThorstenA]

Time for a real stupid question on my part. How does this improve upon the setting that's already in the control panel that turns off who's online by usergroup?
1. The setting you mentioned is just for the online.php script (see below). This product does not improve this setting.
2. This product here is for selecting the guest view of who's online on forumhome, forumdisplay and showthread.


Can View Who's Online
This permission allows members of this group to view the online.php page. This page shows a detailed list of currently active users, their locations, etc. This permission only applies to online.php, not the "Currently Active Users" list on the forumhome page.

Reported locations do take forum permissions into consideration. For example, if a user in the online list is viewing a forum that the current logged in user doesn't have access to, then online.php will only report that they are viewing a forum and not give the name of the forum.

Who's online must be enabled in your vBulletin options for this permission to have any effect. Additionally, there are several Who's online settings on that page in your vBulletin options.

[Andreas]

@amykhar
The WOL box on Forumhome still shows up for Guests, even if they don't have permission to view WOL.
Though I wonder if it really gives such a huge performance boost, as it already doesn't show up for spiders.

[puertoblack2003]

great hack installed did not notice any performance change but it did what i expected good job:banana:

[Nathan2006]

Thank you ThorstenA

Install:D

[amykhar]

Ah. I always just used conditionals to block it, and never really considered the performance impact it might have because the list is still calculated.

I guess this would be worth pursuing if you were trying to squeeze performance out of a shared server.

[ThorstenA]

Ah. I always just used conditionals to block it, and never really considered the performance impact it might have because the list is still calculated.

I guess this would be worth pursuing if you were trying to squeeze performance out of a shared server.
I also just blocked who's online for guests for design reasons. On my dedicated server forum was slow when 150 users were browsing. But now I can handle 300 users using this product. If you installed this hack, please click Install so you have faster access to updates.

[amykhar]

I have not installed it, otherwise I would have clicked install ;)

[Pagandream]

cool. works perfect for my site, now their is more speed!

[ThorstenA]

cool. works perfect for my site, now their is more speed!
Same for me. You can also just turn off who's online for guests on forumdisplay and showthread, so most unregistered users even do not notice that who's online is not available.

[WNxWakko]

hmm, I dont get it. You can just turn off guests in the VB Options and only have it show members. So this mod seems useless, unless of course I am missing something here.

[ThorstenA]

hmm, I dont get it. You can just turn off guests in the VB Options and only have it show members. So this mod seems useless, unless of course I am missing something here.

1. The setting you mentioned is just for the online.php script (see below).
2. This product here is for selecting the guest view of who's online on forumhome, forumdisplay and showthread.


Can View Who's Online
This permission allows members of this group to view the online.php page. This page shows a detailed list of currently active users, their locations, etc. This permission only applies to online.php, not the "Currently Active Users" list on the forumhome page.

Reported locations do take forum permissions into consideration. For example, if a user in the online list is viewing a forum that the current logged in user doesn't have access to, then online.php will only report that they are viewing a forum and not give the name of the forum.

Who's online must be enabled in your vBulletin options for this permission to have any effect. Additionally, there are several Who's online settings on that page in your vBulletin options.

(see also #14 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=936189&postcount=14))

[Brandon Sheley]

nice
/me clicked install

[ThorstenA]

Two days after release around 60 installs and it seems to work everywhere nice ... :D

[dsotmoon]

installed this a couple days ago and is working great

[cuphongle]

wow, thanksss

[WNxWakko]

Ah, got it. Installed, thanks for the explaination.

[Wayne2k1.com]

Installed :)
Thanks man

[ThorstenA]

I am planing to add this features:

forumhome

Do not show events
Do not show birthdays


general

Do not show forumjump

[RaZor Edge]

Great ideas ThorstenA!!

Just click install!!

[Rickie3]

just found this by mistake reading HOTM for april,ive installed and works great,won my vote cheers

[Speedy131]

for me, the who's online thing only shows up in the forumhome

for the forumdisplay and showthread it's more like "who's browsing this forum/thread" right ?

installed it, gonna see if helps to speed up the forum and keep an eye on the new registrations if they drop or not

[BANDiT600]

/me installed this hack! And think that it's a great hack!!!

[Xajel]

Just a stupid question...

what the diff. between this plug-in and the built-in forum permission option to hide Who's on-line for Guest/unlogged users ??

[beano33]

I am planing to add this features:

forumhome

Do not show events
Do not show birthdays


general

Do not show forumjump


If you're going to add all that, might as well add search, and make it conditional on server load. :D

[Unexplained.tv]

Installed and working perfectly!

[jmw]

If you're going to add all that, might as well add search, and make it conditional on server load. :D

Agree, please add SEARCH too if you can. It would be nice if it would display instead a short message in color like "register to use this feature" or "you can't use this feature as you are not registered. Please register now". I guess it would increase sign ups... Text should be optional and with CMS.

[dinodonk]

Installed.... Thanks alot..

[ThorstenA]

Thanks for your suggestions. I will take them into consideration.

[ThorstenA]

Just a stupid question...

what the diff. between this plug-in and the built-in forum permission option to hide Who's on-line for Guest/unlogged users ??

1. The setting you mentioned is just for the online.php script (see below) ;)
2. This product here is for selecting the guest view of who's online on forumhome, forumdisplay and showthread :)


Can View Who's Online
This permission allows members of this group to view the online.php page. This page shows a detailed list of currently active users, their locations, etc. This permission only applies to online.php, not the "Currently Active Users" list on the forumhome page.

Reported locations do take forum permissions into consideration. For example, if a user in the online list is viewing a forum that the current logged in user doesn't have access to, then online.php will only report that they are viewing a forum and not give the name of the forum.

Who's online must be enabled in your vBulletin options for this permission to have any effect. Additionally, there are several Who's online settings on that page in your vBulletin options.

(see also #14 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=936189&postcount=14))

[Cyn]

Works perfectly. Thanks!!

[Guest210212002]

/me clicks install

[HBC]

works great! sweet!

[utw-Mephisto]

/me clicked install too

[almukmin]

Can you also shows a message there that says something like "Available to Members Only"? That'd be awesome.

[xss illz]

I just noticed it doesnt show the online stat at all would adding just the stat defeat the mods purpose??

It would be a nice add on to let those browsing know rather the forum is highly active or dry.

[Coast to Coast]

I've installed this on the Above Top Secret forum -

[Martin64]

* Martin64 licks install

BTW, what's the difference between this hack and just turning off who's online per usergroup for guests? j/k ;)

[ThorstenA]

* Martin64 licks install

BTW, what's the difference between this hack and just turning off who's online per usergroup for guests? j/k ;)

1. The setting you mentioned is just for the online.php script (see below) ;)
2. This product here is for selecting the guest view of who's online on forumhome, forumdisplay and showthread :)


Can View Who's Online
This permission allows members of this group to view the online.php page. This page shows a detailed list of currently active users, their locations, etc. This permission only applies to online.php, not the "Currently Active Users" list on the forumhome page.

Reported locations do take forum permissions into consideration. For example, if a user in the online list is viewing a forum that the current logged in user doesn't have access to, then online.php will only report that they are viewing a forum and not give the name of the forum.

Who's online must be enabled in your vBulletin options for this permission to have any effect. Additionally, there are several Who's online settings on that page in your vBulletin options.

(see also #14 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=936189&postcount=14))

[Martin64]

Hehe I hope you know I was kidding. :p

Anyway, the hack works great, it surely makes a difference on big boards, one of our boards usually has between 500 and 1000 guests and it's flying now. :)

[ThorstenA]

Hehe I hope you know I was kidding. :p


hehe, wasn't 100 % sure, I thought it's better to just polite answer the question :)

Anyway, the hack works great, it surely makes a difference on big boards, one of our boards usually has between 500 and 1000 guests and it's flying now. :)
yeah, the same here :D This product is very easy but extremely effective ;)

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Can you also shows a message there that says something like "Available to Members Only"? That'd be awesome.

agreed :)

< /me clicks install :)

[Mistah Roth]

Does this reduce any queries?

[ThorstenA]

Does this reduce any queries?
Of course, it reduces the (rather big) queries for showing who's online and therefore improves forum speed.

[COBRAws]

I am planing to add this features:

forumhome

Do not show events
Do not show birthdays


general

Do not show forumjump

Looking foward to this =D

[The Reefkeeper]

Thanks.

[snowbird]

Installed. Thank you for this nice product. Can you also shows a message there that says something like "Available to Members Only"? That'd be awesome.I agree too. :)

[ThorstenA]

seems to work with vbulletin 3.6

[nymyth]

nice work...installed

Peace

[ThorstenA]

Actually, Jelsoft integrated this product into the actual vbulletin 3.6 release :D

[Djamil]

Actually, Jelsoft integrated this product into the actual vbulletin 3.6 release :D

Where did you get this information from ? Couldn't find anything about it on vb.com.

Djamil

[ThorstenA]

Where did you get this information from ? Couldn't find anything about it on vb.com.

They didn't mention it in their announcement forum. You can disable who's online for guests on vb 3.6 in admincp > settings > forumdisplay / showthread

[Djamil]

They didn't mention it in their announcement forum. You can disable who's online for guests on vb 3.6 in admincp > settings > forumdisplay / showthread

Czesc,

that's very good news, thank you very much for posting this!

Djamil

[ronoxQ]

Nice work! Installed.

(Uses 3.5 for the mods :P)

[zeroality]

What about going into the ACP and disabling it for the Unregistered / Not Logged In group via User Manager?

It lets me click 'no' on "let this group view who's online".

So why is this MOD necessary? Am I missing something?

[Pathor]

Installed, thanks! :)

[ThorstenA]

What about going into the ACP and disabling it for the Unregistered / Not Logged In group via User Manager?

It lets me click 'no' on "let this group view who's online".

So why is this MOD necessary? Am I missing something?
1. The setting you mentioned is just for the online.php script (see below). This product does not improve this setting.
2. This product here is for selecting the guest view of who's online on forumhome, forumdisplay and showthread.


Can View Who's Online
This permission allows members of this group to view the online.php page. This page shows a detailed list of currently active users, their locations, etc. This permission only applies to online.php, not the "Currently Active Users" list on the forumhome page.

Reported locations do take forum permissions into consideration. For example, if a user in the online list is viewing a forum that the current logged in user doesn't have access to, then online.php will only report that they are viewing a forum and not give the name of the forum.

Who's online must be enabled in your vBulletin options for this permission to have any effect. Additionally, there are several Who's online settings on that page in your vBulletin options.

Please note: This product is integrated in vbulletin 3.6. If you have vbulletin 3.6 installed, there's no need for installing this product.

[zeroality]

Ah I see.

[ThorstenA]

As this product is integrated in vbulletin 3.6 there is no need to further develope it.

I have another product which saves one query each time forumdisplay is presented. It turns off annoucements on forumdisplay which is nice if you have no announcements at all in your forum. Forumdisplay is maybe around 30-40 % presented in all of your sites, so deleting a query in 30-40 % of all your site visits can improve your forum speed :)

Here is the link to the new product for vbulletin 3.6.4: (Forumdisplay) Turn off announcements & save 1 query (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=136134) Enjoy :D

[kellyandmike]

Thanks! Great! Just what I didn't know I needed!!!

[ThorstenA]

Thanks! Great! Just what I didn't know I needed!!!

It's completely integrated into vbulletin 3.6 However, if you are using vbulletin version 3.5 you are gaining so much speed with this small product.

[tanyeri24]

great work. awaiting future releases as described in your first post.

[blackberry]

<font color="Blue">woow thanks alot </font>