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Originally Posted by Mark.B

Fantastic add-on.

One thing people may want to be aware of is that each avatar adds a query to the page.
Now it's worth noting that if you are on vb4, there's a "bug" in the search files whereby, for a "getnew/getdaily" search (New Posts or Today's Posts), the avatar of the thread starter is ALREADY called, (but not used), meaning if you have 20 results per page you are adding 20 queries. This hack then duplicates that, adding another 20.

Andreas has posted instructions for fixing that problem with the search files in THIS Jira bug. If you're not used to DIFF files it can be a bit tricky, but it's do-able.

Yes I would totally agree on this and I will try and see if I can reduce the query by re-using the avatars.

For vB3.8 Mod I have made sure the queries are kept to minimum because we don't have the userid of the last poster and so instead of fetching the userid from username I have created a function to fetch avatar URL from username. You can refer to my blog post here for the same.