Fireboard 1.0.3 used to be really slow on my old linux webserver. It would always take 40 seconds to just be able to show the frontside categories. But I quickly figured out that it was due to the stats plugin.

When I disable it the forum could load within 5 seconds. However sometimes it would still take a long time to load. So to be sure that the stats plugin was no longer being used I renamed the stats directory. However then I got an error messages stating that it
could not find the stats.class.php file, so this means it is still being accessed.

I figured out that the problem lies in the naming of the showstats variable, it seems that the administrator backend saves this setting as showStats instead. Solution, simply change the following two files:

Change line 617 in /components/com_fireboard/template/default/listcat.php from:
if ($fbConfig['showstats'] > 0)
To:
if ($fbConfig['showStats'] > 0)

Change line 37 in /administrator/components/com_fireboard/fireboard_config.php from:
$fbConfig['showstats']='1';
To:
$fbConfig['showStats']='0';
(Remove any double created showStats enties)

Cheers,
Michel

good point. I'll look into it.
Good Job!

I found a problem with this.. if using CB Integration and you have the show Stats in the CB Tab to the User Status the User Group image does not show and neither does the Karma indicator.

Both nice addons to the User Status bar and for large communities with large forums this may prove to be vital.

Clanspot, the solution for that problem is also available here:
...com_fireboard/Itemid,38/func,view/id,23399/catid,76/

techlab wrote:
Fireboard 1.0.3 used to be really slow on my old linux webserver. It would always take 40 seconds to just be able to show the frontside categories. But I quickly figured out that it was due to the stats plugin.

When I disable it the forum could load within 5 seconds. However sometimes it would still take a long time to load. So to be sure that the stats plugin was no longer being used I renamed the stats directory. However then I got an error messages stating that it
could not find the stats.class.php file, so this means it is still being accessed.

I figured out that the problem lies in the naming of the showstats variable, it seems that the administrator backend saves this setting as showStats instead. Solution, simply change the following two files:

Change line 617 in /components/com_fireboard/template/default/listcat.php from:
if ($fbConfig['showstats'] > 0)
To:
if ($fbConfig['showStats'] > 0)

Change line 37 in /administrator/components/com_fireboard/fireboard_config.php from:
$fbConfig['showstats']='1';
To:
$fbConfig['showStats']='0';
(Remove any double created showStats enties)

Cheers,
Michel

I try this way, but there are some wrong display in msg_posts when viewing a post, ... So I must upload the original file.

this fix is not enough, if you do this you are risking to loose stats showing under user left profile inside topic view,
you have to also rename showstats in view.php line 610

there are some occurences in fbprofile.php and admin.fireboard.php and admin.fireboard.html.php files as well.