waiting for it........:cool:

If you have 1000 users online you're going to need your own dedicated server. If you have your own dedicated server you can probably use memcache, and put this kind of data in memcache because memory's so cheap.

Alternatively you could use the modern scroll and load more data in each column. You preload 5-10 users in the online users box, then when the user's scroll offset is almost at the bottom, load 5-10 more.

I can understand why you're saying it could be a performance issue, but it doesn't necessarily have to be one with the correct approach :)

I completely agree, I think having content boxes with scrollbars within a page that has a scrollbar is a bad idea.

Really, most uses of scrollbars within pages like this are a bad idea in my opinion. I believe most people do not want to read content in a little box, they want to be able to quickly scan over content with their eyes, instead of having to actually interact with the content in order to read only portions of the content at a time.

I like the today top poster and top thread starter part tho

This would be cool if you didn't have the online users one. Only because it is a huge con for big sites. If you are going to display who is online then you should only display a random 5 or 10 and then have a See all online users... link at the bottom.

this is true

first of all: 3 extra queries per page is a lot dude. However, I guess you could use a cronjob once a minute to cache the results.

But still that would use a lot of extra memory/size per page.

Then there is the fact that it's just not interesting information.
The first column shows all the online users in a small list, if there are more than 500 users online, who will go through that list??

The second and third column may be a reason for people to spam with a lot of short messages and stupid threads.

its a great addon, i might try once you release this mod

I would use it, definitely. :)

nice modification .. good job