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Was the feature showing how many people and who were viewing a certain forum removed and if so why?
That function adds long/slow queries to the database servers. It works with normal traffic but it gets really stacked up when there's a lot of users online. Queries made after that, such as reading a post or posting a reply have to wait in line. When the line gets too long the site locks up and the servers crash. The other night users online jumped from 2900 to 17,000 in four minutes and there were up to 1500 shown viewing a particular thread. I don't see how it can be enabled here unless you have an admin here 24/7 to turn it off for traffic peaks.