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

Do not show who's online for guests
for vbulletin 3.5

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.

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 ...).

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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...:)

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

Very useful hack, cheers. :)

thanks ... great one

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

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.

Works fine, thx 4 the plugin :)

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