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ThorstenA

03-27-2006 10:00 PM

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

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. 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 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

03-28-2006 11:14 AM

[ reserved ]

puertoblack2003

03-28-2006 11:44 AM

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

03-28-2006 11:46 AM

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

projectego

03-28-2006 11:55 AM

Very useful hack, cheers. :)

Barakat

03-28-2006 12:06 PM

thanks ... great one

MissKalunji

03-28-2006 12:09 PM

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

ThorstenA

03-28-2006 12:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by puertoblack2003

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

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

03-28-2006 12:39 PM

Works fine, thx 4 the plugin :)

ThorstenA

03-28-2006 12:54 PM

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

puertoblack2003

03-28-2006 01:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThorstenA

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

03-28-2006 01:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThorstenA

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

Thanks for the update again!

amykhar

03-28-2006 01:20 PM

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

03-28-2006 01:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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?

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.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Manual

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

03-28-2006 01:44 PM

@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

03-28-2006 01:49 PM

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

Nathan2006

03-28-2006 02:07 PM

Thank you ThorstenA

Install:D

amykhar

03-28-2006 02:42 PM

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

03-28-2006 02:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by amykhar

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

03-28-2006 04:31 PM

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

Pagandream

03-29-2006 11:43 AM

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

ThorstenA

03-29-2006 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pagandream

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

03-30-2006 12:51 AM

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

03-30-2006 03:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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.

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.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Manual

(see also #14)

Brandon Sheley

03-30-2006 06:36 AM

nice
/me clicked install

ThorstenA

03-30-2006 07:49 PM

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

dsotmoon

03-30-2006 10:07 PM

installed this a couple days ago and is working great

cuphongle

03-30-2006 10:15 PM

wow, thanksss

WNxWakko

03-30-2006 11:02 PM

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

Wayne2k1.com

03-31-2006 12:28 PM

Installed :)
Thanks man

ThorstenA

04-03-2006 05:47 AM

I am planing to add this features:

forumhome

Do not show events
Do not show birthdays

general

Do not show forumjump

RaZor Edge

04-03-2006 07:14 AM

Great ideas ThorstenA!!

Just click install!!

Rickie3

04-16-2006 09:26 AM

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

Speedy131

04-16-2006 08:29 PM

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

04-17-2006 09:58 AM

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

Xajel

04-18-2006 02:39 PM

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

04-18-2006 07:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThorstenA

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

04-19-2006 06:57 AM

Installed and working perfectly!

jmw	04-21-2006 07:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by beano33

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

04-21-2006 07:36 PM

Installed.... Thanks alot..

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