This consideration might have been important years ago, but nowadays web hosting is generally done on powerful CPUs with lots of RAM etc, and an extra SQL query (or not) is usually not so important... Just look at the Wedge codebase, literally for every page it runs dozens of preg calls, many queries, does thousands of tests, and yet you're aware that our software is extremely fast, because most of the work is done over the network and the client, more than the server, so is it that big a deal, anyway..?
In any case, I'd at least like to keep the topic views enabled for members, and drop guests altogether, I wouldn't mind that too much really, but that's really the best I can do right now, I reckon...
In any case, I'd at least like to keep the topic views enabled for members, and drop guests altogether, I wouldn't mind that too much really, but that's really the best I can do right now, I reckon...