Making posts, editing posts, deleting/moving/closing topics, all these functions work super fast now. Before, UBB would take 4 or 5 seconds, VB is like a second delay only, if that. It made moderating the boards tiresome, but now mods can do what they want in a snap.
And yes, having Who’s Online back is one of my favorite benefits. The latest version of UBB would crawl when this feature was turned on. You know, the only reason I think we got away with turning it on in the past was because we had less traffic back in the day. I remember during the “ON” merger we would see 40 to 50 people online at one time and be “wowed”. VB on the other hand handles Who’s Online so efficiently that it doesn’t effect performance they claim.