Originally Posted by tekelberry
a) Turn off the whole "What's Going On?" panel at the bottom. It's unncessary database queries.
b) Remove the (x Viewing) text next to a forum's name. This also results in unnecessary database queries.
I'm no expert in this, but it seems to me each of those would be relatively few queries. It's hardly a major thing, but I find these demographic statistics sort of interesting, so if there's a way to keep them without hitting the database too hard, so much the better. Maybe I'm just weird, though.
By the way, thumbs up on the upgrade. I'm glad everyone was patient while the first-day optimizations got worked out (it seems to be common with big site launches and the like), and the new features and just generally better behavior/user-friendliness are well worth it.