[Phalynx]

Originally Posted by MrEyes

When you say "every page" do you mean "every page" or just those pages that relate to social groups and forum lists? It seems a bit odd that if, for example, a user is viewing the FAQ pages an additional 2 queries are required.

I mean every page. This forum permission check is necessary because users will protect the content of the forums. vBulletin offers possibility on many places to "view" content of a forum. Statistics in profile, RSS Feeds, other hacks, etc...
If you don't need the forum permissions, you can disabled it via options. vBulletin does not offer Hooks in a location where I could "hang in". It has been requested, but it seems that Jelsoft don't see the benefit from it.

There is no possibility to check if a user is a member of a social group, so I have to use a query to gather this information.

Originally Posted by MrEyes

When/If this is added will this be optional, it could be extremely nasty if a social group owner gets annoyed over something and without thought kills the group and therefore kills a forum that might have some great content in it.

I wrote also that such a forum would get deleted OR archived.