[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 ...).

[puertoblack2003]

Originally Posted by ThorstenA

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.

ok gotcha , i'll give it a go

[Snake]

Originally Posted by ThorstenA

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

Thanks for the update again!

[amykhar]

Time for a real stupid question on my part. How does this improve upon the setting that's already in the control panel that turns off who's online by usergroup?

[ThorstenA]

Originally Posted by amykhar

Time for a real stupid question on my part. How does this improve upon the setting that's already in the control panel that turns off who's online by usergroup?

1. The setting you mentioned is just for the online.php script (see below). This product does not improve this setting.
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.

[Andreas]

@amykhar
The WOL box on Forumhome still shows up for Guests, even if they don't have permission to view WOL.
Though I wonder if it really gives such a huge performance boost, as it already doesn't show up for spiders.

[puertoblack2003]

great hack installed did not notice any performance change but it did what i expected good job:banana:

[Nathan2006]

Thank you ThorstenA

Install

[amykhar]

Ah. I always just used conditionals to block it, and never really considered the performance impact it might have because the list is still calculated.

I guess this would be worth pursuing if you were trying to squeeze performance out of a shared server.

[ThorstenA]

Originally Posted by amykhar

Ah. I always just used conditionals to block it, and never really considered the performance impact it might have because the list is still calculated.

I guess this would be worth pursuing if you were trying to squeeze performance out of a shared server.

I also just blocked who's online for guests for design reasons. On my dedicated server forum was slow when 150 users were browsing. But now I can handle 300 users using this product. If you installed this hack, please click Install so you have faster access to updates.

[amykhar]

I have not installed it, otherwise I would have clicked install