Next Generation Whats Going On Better Than vBulletin 4.1 WGO

[Medtech]

waiting for it........

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

I never even mentioned the word query.

But if you are going to add things like avatars, then this can have a big impact on performence (do they need to be resized?), memory usage (all these avatars into memory, retrieving from either disk or database) and bandwidth (all these images must alos be sent to the client).

Consider a board with over 1.000 users online.

If you have 1000 users online you're going to need your own dedicated server. If you have your own dedicated server you can probably use memcache, and put this kind of data in memcache because memory's so cheap.

Alternatively you could use the modern scroll and load more data in each column. You preload 5-10 users in the online users box, then when the user's scroll offset is almost at the bottom, load 5-10 more.

I can understand why you're saying it could be a performance issue, but it doesn't necessarily have to be one with the correct approach

[RLShare]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

Looks okay and some people would use it but I wouldn't... It is very bulky and having multiple scroll bars on the screen doesn't appeal to me.

I completely agree, I think having content boxes with scrollbars within a page that has a scrollbar is a bad idea.

Really, most uses of scrollbars within pages like this are a bad idea in my opinion. I believe most people do not want to read content in a little box, they want to be able to quickly scan over content with their eyes, instead of having to actually interact with the content in order to read only portions of the content at a time.

[Hornstar]

I like the today top poster and top thread starter part tho

[Bibbo]

This would be cool if you didn't have the online users one. Only because it is a huge con for big sites. If you are going to display who is online then you should only display a random 5 or 10 and then have a See all online users... link at the bottom.

[yahoooh]

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

I would probably not use such a modification. It might be nice with only a few members online, but i guess this can kill performence or bandwidth when a lot of users are online.

this is true

[waza]

first of all: 3 extra queries per page is a lot dude. However, I guess you could use a cronjob once a minute to cache the results.

But still that would use a lot of extra memory/size per page.

Then there is the fact that it's just not interesting information.
The first column shows all the online users in a small list, if there are more than 500 users online, who will go through that list??

The second and third column may be a reason for people to spam with a lot of short messages and stupid threads.

[rugby]

its a great addon, i might try once you release this mod

[Ryan Ashbrook]

I would use it, definitely.

[Mohammad Jehad]

nice modification .. good job