.josh Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 normally when you click on a thread it shows who else is reading the thread at the bottom, including yourself. but now it doesn't show anybody. is this a feature that has been turned off, or did some bug happen, or is it just me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 I actually turned it off. We're adding a few profile fields (PHP Version, MySQL Version, and a few others possibly) and since that creates an additional JOIN in the page load, I thought I'd remove a query somewhere else. I don't personally feel that this feature is all that valuable, so I removed it. It's all about performance.I will talk it over with the rest of the mod team and get a consensus, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 After some discussion, it was decided to restore this feature. Thanks for asking and I apologize for the temporary inconvenience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted June 28, 2006 Author Share Posted June 28, 2006 Ah. Sorry, I wasn't trying to get anybody into "trouble" so to speak..though seeing as how your admin such and all, i don't think that really applies [img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/laugh.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":laugh:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"laugh.gif\" /] I was just curious. I personally do find it convenient. I've been here long enough that I know where I'm at in the food chain of php skills, vs. other regulars here, so if I walk into a thread and see someone better than me is there, I generally walk back out in order to avoid stepping on other people's toes. Also, with trouble shooting in general, it just seems easier to help trouble shoot a problem in an active thread if you can see who all is in there. You could post something and next thing you know well..it could get very confusing very quickly. I think that's one thing I do like about SMF - it gives you a warning if someone posted while you were in the middle of typing out a post. Now THAT would be a useful feature. But I will also agree that it's a convenience, and far from a necessity. I'd be willing to give it up for something cooler, or for overall board efficiency. Well, that's my 2 cents, anyways, for whatever it counts towards.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 Yeah, I know I've used it in the past as well. I shouldn't have removed it in the first place, but I'm concerned about speed #1 here. We have a lot of users on a lot of the time (as you may notice when we get errors about too many concurrent connections) and I want to get people on and off of the server as quickly as possible.And as far as SMF, I think there are plans to migrate to another board, but nothing has been announced quite yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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