[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]

Originally Posted by Martin64

[high]* Martin64 licks install[/high]

BTW, what's the difference between this hack and just turning off who's online per usergroup for guests? j/k

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

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.

(see also #14)

[Martin64]

Hehe I hope you know I was kidding.

Anyway, the hack works great, it surely makes a difference on big boards, one of our boards usually has between 500 and 1000 guests and it's flying now.

[ThorstenA]

Originally Posted by Martin64

Hehe I hope you know I was kidding.

hehe, wasn't 100 % sure, I thought it's better to just polite answer the question

Originally Posted by Martin64

Anyway, the hack works great, it surely makes a difference on big boards, one of our boards usually has between 500 and 1000 guests and it's flying now.

yeah, the same here This product is very easy but extremely effective

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by almukmin

Can you also shows a message there that says something like "Available to Members Only"? That'd be awesome.

agreed

< /me clicks install

[Mistah Roth]

Does this reduce any queries?

[ThorstenA]

Originally Posted by Mistah Roth

Does this reduce any queries?

Of course, it reduces the (rather big) queries for showing who's online and therefore improves forum speed.

[COBRAws]

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

Looking foward to this =D

[The Reefkeeper]

Thanks.

[snowbird]

Installed. Thank you for this nice product.

Originally Posted by almukmin

Can you also shows a message there that says something like "Available to Members Only"? That'd be awesome.

I agree too.

[ThorstenA]

seems to work with vbulletin 3.6