Define 'expensive'

A name is only listed once, no matter how many times they read the thread - 300/400 readers per thread is quite a lot, are you sure all your threads are really read by that many ?

Anyway, 300 names will be about an extra 9K/Bytes on the page (as a reasonable guess).

Since he has 14.931 members I would say that is highly possible. Wow! That is a huge number for daily traffic for shared hosting.

I am pretty sure because I read the number from... your script ;)
Some threads (announcements of new functions) have more than 550 readers...
(even if in the weekend the traffic is lower)

thanks. Since the visualization is allowed just for the admins (two of us), I guess this is not a big deal.

Ehm... the names visualization is the only thing that affects the bandwidth? :o
I mean enabling (without visualization) or disabling it, from the bandwidth point of view is the same?

Sorry if the question sounds trivial or dumb, but I really like this hack, it is very useful for administration purposes.

Few days ago we shifted on a VPS, same hosting; now we are comparing the bandwidth used beetween the old and new server, this is why I am asking these trivial questions about the bandwidth usage (I added this hack after the "moving on").
BTW, the hosting is doing a really great work, even if when we were on their "pure" shared hosting, the website was always fast and reliable (and the support very quick, that is what I like the most, as per vbulletin, both .com and .org :up: ).

Thank you guys! ;)

The extra bandwidth is because the list of names is passed as part of the page, if you disable the display of names, then there will be no exta bandwidth.

cool, thank you.

thanks for this hack ;)

QUESTION? I would like members to see who has viewed a thread as well without being able to view ip addresses. Possible?

As it says, the view IP and view readers are separate permissions ;

So yes, just set it up correctly in the settings.

Paul, when I try and upload it from my computer it says

XML Error: not well-formed (invalid token) at Line 1

You have a duff file, download it again.