Suggestion like user group settings.

[Strider-GU]

Here are a few more suggestions for vB3.1:
When hover "last post" in main forum, show the topics of up to 5 new/updated threads (and how many new post each of those threads have), also show number if there are more than 5 new. Show how many new posts/views since last visit in a forum. Show in a post how many post that user had when it was made. Can make certain posts open for all to edit. Show number of times a post have been edited. Score polls - be able to choose number between numbers (eg. 1 to 5) and the averange will be shown. Show number of votes in poll in the topic list.
Set for each User Group:
Max sig size. Time delay before edit shows up. Min time between searches. Min time between posts. Max new threads per day. Max new posts per day.

[Wayne Luke]

Show how many new posts/views since last visit in a forum.


The query for this alone would kill boards over 100,000 posts.

[Strider-GU]

Well some other forums have that, at least how many posts.

Like when you see that a thread is new/updated, it can also show how many of the posts that is new. Just remembering last amount of post and take that from amount now to see how many new.

[feldon23]

Well some other forums have that, at least how many posts.

Like when you see that a thread is new/updated, it can also show how many of the posts that is new. Just remembering last amount of post and take that from amount now to see how many new.
# of posts is one thing.

# of VIEWS is the offending item. Actually, large forums have had to install a hack (whose functionality is integrated into vB3) that delays the frequency of "Views" generation to once or twice an hour.

As for "other forums" having posts/views, those forums are not database-driven.