So what exactly is the point of this modification?

It is simple this plugin shows how many people visiting/browsing the thread on forumdisplay.

Yep you can download new one

Wait, are you running a query per thread to do this ?

yea and i just implented vB's source to it, Atakan KOC has same mod but his mod gives wrong information btw uses 2 hooks and same per query.

So you're running an extra 25 queries per page by default? Thats abit excessive.

But is there another option? Any other working mod that would give the same result? :( i guess not.
For me this is worth

Well all mods will use same way i dont think is there any way to use? of course we need to do use query and for me 1 query is not so big deal and i dont think it will lower speed of forum we do not use p2 machines for hosting only 1 and simple query and it uses just 1 hook as i said there is another mod tries to give same info made by Atakan KOC and its using 2 hooks and 1 query...
PS: Atakan KOC's plugin: here