It depends on your settings. If you leave it at the default settings it will add four small queries on each page refress, and three large queries once a day. If you change the delay setting in the admincp options to 10, it will do four small queries once every ten minutes. So it can be made very efficient, you just sacrifice some of the real-time nature is all.

Newst members are the wrong way round but this is what it says.

Welcome to our newest 5 members, lastyearsman, borofan16, messi, NedvedShevchenko, foxy lady
Welcome to our newest member, foxy lady

When foxy lady was the 5th last person to join the forum. lastyearsman is the newest member.

Will this be fixed?

You've done some customization of the template, because in the default install newest member isn't shown anymore. It is replaced by newest x members. I recommend removing it. There is no reason to show both. Just set 'newest members' to 1 in the admincp options if that is what you want.

FANTASTIC! Thanks a bunch

The same issue is back in the new version that you fixed in the old version...vbseo and my arcade link....what did you change to make it work before?

vbseo was screwing up the datastore, breaking the cache possibly? I moved everything to a cron job. But, I decided that is not a practical solution. I'd suggested taking it up with vbseo. I will see if I can remember/give you more details.

Hmm, this update isn't working for me at all. When I first installed, I noticed that the trend stats were completely gone and replaced with my regular forum stats. I just went in and did a manual template update, and it just displays a blank box there now. I completely uninstalled and reinstalled, and I turned auto template edits off.

Okay, just an FYI to let you know 2.0.1 is in the works. It will add some minor, but useful updates, like:
1) Number formating (10,000 vs 10000)
2) If you make the manual template edit, disabling vbTrends will no longer leave the stats box empty - instead it will revert to use the original template.
3) Will attempt intelligent datastore unserialization - hope it helps with some of the problems a few of you have been having. vb made a real mess of this IMHO.

Revert the FORUMHOME template - it auto-replace worked before it should still work. Then make sure you download the latest zip, even though the version hasn't changed a number of fixes have been done and uploaded. Then if a full uninstall/reinstall still doesn't fix things for you we'll see what the next step might be.

Reverted the template, which got my original stats back, but nothing works to get the trends up. I did a full uninstall/reinstall after re-downloading the zip from here and it doesn't indicate any problems, it just doesn't show up on ForumHome.