[thincom2000]

Great to see that this mod is still being worked on and continued by the community. However, I have had a number of concerns with the product for a while and have been waiting for one of the coders to see where I'm coming from.

This mod has been in desparate need of a performance upgrade for years, and still looks like it hasn't been done. The fact that each threadbit adds 2 queries in event forums is not a good thing, when it can easily be avoided.

You should create a thread-event cache in the first one using the already available list of thread IDs. In other words, fetch the events and custom fields for all threads on the page in one swoop. Of course if an entry is not in your cache for some reason, you can do a second lookup, but this would still be a massive improvement. It is also possible to do for search results.

A lot of the code can also be reduced in size by simply shortening the unnecessarily long $lv_vb_event_forums, etc. variable names. And a lot of the code can be condensed and improved in other ways. Some of the plugins are very long and could help memory consumption by moving them to files (all plugin code is loaded to memory on all pages, not just the ones where your plugin actually does something).

I highly recommend having a look at this mod again from a performance perspective, rather than settling with it in a working state.

Thanks.