| One of the major burdens on the server running this forum software is, in fact, the updating of the thread views count. You can imagine, every time a thread is viewed data has to be sent into the database to increase the counter by one. In order to alleviate some server burden, I've implemented a system that delays the view count insertions to the database. This takes a lot of database queries out of the pipeline.
In otherwords, the 'views' column is now updated about once very 15-30 minutes instead of instanteously. This is a standard feature in the new version of this forum software due out this fall (VBulletin 3.0).
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