[DBTech] Forum Live Feed & User Wall v1 (vB4) [AJAX]

[DragonByte Tech]

Forum Live Feed & User Wall lets you see a continuously updated feed of activities on the forum, with a powerful set of customisation options for sources of information.

Uses
If you've wished for a Facebook-like feed for your forum, this mod is for you.

This mod adds 2 distinct features to your site. First a live feed showing actions performed by everyone on the forum, from new threads and posts to things like new avatars or signatures, your members can customise their feed and keep up to date with everything that's going on, right as it happens.
Secondly every user also has their own wall that displays what they have been up to. This lets users see what their friends have been doing and join in!
With advanced privacy configuration options and configurable preview options for each content type, this mod compliments other modifications like InfoPanels and produces a more detailed and verbose feed of the happenings on the forum.


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Complete Feature List

Lite
Forum Sidebar block type
Preview in Forum Sidebar
Ability to turn off IMG tag parsing on both main pages and Sidebar
Status updates (from Forum Sidebar or the Live Wall page)
Content types for nearly all forum actions:
Posts
Threads
Avatar changes (Only if Avatars are stored in the file system!)
Signature picture changes (Only if Signature Pictures are stored in the file system!)
Username changes
Social Group discussion
Social Group discussion replies
Status Updates (From this mod)
vBLive Status Updates
vBArcade Scores
[DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like: Button clicks for Posts
Nobody / Registered Users / Contacts Only / Friends Only display options for each content type to control who you see feeds from
Nobody / Registered Users / Contacts Only / Friends Only privacy options for each content type to control who can see your feeds
Automatically refreshing via AJAX at controllable intervalsPro
Recent Entries page with more entries displayed, no auto refresh
Ability to "favourite" stories and view them from their own page
Comments system
Comment count in the main feed with link to comment thread
Ability to post comments in the comment thread
AJAX refreshed comment threads
Ability to delete your own/others comments with usergroup permissions
Content types for nearly all forum actions:
Blog Posts
Blog Comments
User Notes
Visitor Messages
Profile Pictures

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1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[Trip3151]

Hi there got this error

Warning: require_once([path]/dbtech/livewall_pro/contenttypes/profilepictures.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/dbtech/livewall/includes/class_core.php on line 688

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/builtfor/public_html/archongaming.org/forum/dbtech/livewall_pro/contenttypes/profilepictures.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/builtfor/public_html/archongaming.org/forum/dbtech/livewall/includes/class_core.php on line 688

[DragonByte Tech]

I updated the files. Could you please re-download the .zip file and re-upload /dbtech/livewall/includes/class_core.php and see if that works?

Fillip

[Trip3151]

Nice that works so let me get this right this does not put the update status under your username in postbit? It just gives me a wall full of feeds?

[DragonByte Tech]

That is correct :)

We may implement additional display options in the future, but they will most likely be revolved around the profile and not the postbit.

Postbit space is rather limited, and we want admins to be able to allow people to post a microblog (think Twitter) length status - hence the default 140 characters ;) - without worrying about the postbit looking like a giraffe.

Hopefully that made sense :)


Fillip

[Trip3151]

sure does thanks for the feed back I will look in too this plugin more when that postbit or postbit legacy feature gets added :) keep up the good work I have spent alot of money over at your shop buying all them plugin goodies!

[Wonksta]

No plans for vB3 I assume? :(

[DragonByte Tech]

We don't have any immediate plans to port it to vB3, sorry :(


Fillip

[Wonksta]

Fooooo you're indirectly forcing me to upgrade to vB4.

Haha thanks for the quick reply and will be watching this closely!

[Markus79]

Sounds good ;)
Is this Addon show new albumpictures and does it show bbcodes? (Video, Smilies ...)

[DragonByte Tech]

There's currently no content type for Album Pictures.

It does show BBCode, all the BBCode that are allowed in "Non-Forum Areas" as per the BBCode settings.

Smilies are also supported :)

That being said, due to the fact that each content type comes with a "Preview Cut-off" setting, some BBCode may become invalidated and not parse correctly.

Example: Let's say you have a quote tag that contains more than 300 characters. When it cuts off the message, the closing [/quote] will get removed and the start tag will be left in place.

Hopefully that makes sense :)


Fillip

[Kraxell]

Whats different to this mod?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=277545

[DragonByte Tech]

You can compare the feature lists and screenshots to find out what's different - personally I'm not so good at selling things. That's more my partner Iain's thing.

I'll link him to your query and he'll answer as soon as he's able :)


Fillip

[Alan_SP]

Whats different to this mod?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=277545

From quick look at it, with DBTech mod you could set numerous options feed/privacy wise. You can decide which feeds you want to see and to whom you want to enable to see your feeds.

In pro version you also get whole comment system, where people could comment anything in feeds.

Coding wise, DBTech has produced good code so far. I'm not telling that this other coder produces bad code, I'm just telling that in my experience DBTech produced good code so far and I believe they will continue so.

On the other hand, only sure thing is that you try both mods on your testing site and see which one you like more. :)

[Markus79]

Hey,

nice work. I install the lite edition but i have some requests.
1. Statusupdate from forumhome. I put the textarea in the block template and it works fine without the maxlength.
2. A little preview at the block would be nice.

Is that possilbe?

[BlueCheri]

Many thanx, seems to be nice work.

Installed, hope everything is fine.

Now setting and checking, how it works, will post details here.

G!

[R4rifi]

Installed! working gr888, Its awesome.........Thanx a lot for such a cool mod!

[DragonByte Tech]

Whats different to this mod?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=277545

That mod seems to be a basic feed of some forum info.

Our mod is a full live facebook style wall, with user customisable content, content previews, privacy permissions for who does and doesn't see posts about you, a commenting system (in pro), as well as a full user-wall system where each user has their own wall filled with events relating only to them - again just like on facebook.

Hope that clears up the difference ^.^

Iain

[BlueCheri]

Hello Iain,

I think have done all steps correctly, still something is wrong.

Can not make it, help is required please.

The forum url is: www.offwalk.com

Thanx in advance.

G!

[DragonByte Tech]

An error message is more useful than a site URL :)


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Hey,

nice work. I install the lite edition but i have some requests.
1. Statusupdate from forumhome. I put the textarea in the block template and it works fine without the maxlength.
2. A little preview at the block would be nice.

Is that possilbe?Could you re-post these over at our forum as feature suggestion threads? That ensures they won't get lost in the mists of time as we plan new versions :)


Fillip

[tpearl5]

Any chance of getting a content type added for photopost vbgallery (http://www.photopost.com/) and vba dynamics (http://vbadvanced.com/products.php?do=productinfo&productid=7)?

I would gladly buy the pro version for those features alone.

[pete_brady]

and a content type for your Advanced Post Thanks / Like mod would be nice...

[DragonByte Tech]

We will definitely add APTL content types, that's on the todo list :)


Fillip

[lycheepassion]

Hey, nice product - I can't find where it says the "Can Administer Forum Live Feed & User Wall" administrator permission
under usergroups?

[lycheepassion]

That mod seems to be a basic feed of some forum info.

Our mod is a full live facebook style wall, with user customisable content, content previews, privacy permissions for who does and doesn't see posts about you, a commenting system (in pro), as well as a full user-wall system where each user has their own wall filled with events relating only to them - again just like on facebook.

Hope that clears up the difference ^.^

Iain

I do not see these other functions like a user wall, where is this?

[bposner]

Very nice, you guys always make nice stuff. Made a forum block with it as well.
Look forward to enhancements.
Thanks!

[GhettoTech]

Any chance on giving away a few pro versions for us to test for you, so we can provide feedback and all that :)

[lycheepassion]

Any chance on giving away a few pro versions for us to test for you, so we can provide feedback and all that :)

I'm in, that is if you would ? :)

[DragonByte Tech]

I do not see these other functions like a user wall, where is this?

Click on any users name from the wall or visit http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/livewall.php?u=XXXX where XXXX is the UID.

Any chance on giving away a few pro versions for us to test for you, so we can provide feedback and all that :)

I'm in, that is if you would ? :)

:P We already have lots of Pro users who have purchased the mod and are providing feedback on our site, thanks for the offer though!

Iain

[DragonByte Tech]

Any chance of getting a content type added for photopost vbgallery (http://www.photopost.com/) and vba dynamics (http://vbadvanced.com/products.php?do=productinfo&productid=7)?

I would gladly buy the pro version for those features alone.

Your best bet is to suggest this in a thread over at the support forums to make sure it gets noticed and taken into consideration each time we're designing a new version =)

As far as adding support for 3rd party products, that tends to be something we do after we have added the feature requests and 1st party integration, so it will probably be a bit before those get added unless there are several requests for the integration from pro customers over at DBTech.

We try to put features that everyone can make use of ahead of things like 3rd party integration that most people won't use, unless a number of our customers request the feature. For obvious reasons requests like that tend to be given priority :P

Iain

[thecore762]

Nominated.
Once again DbTech making excellent plugins!

[pete_brady]

[spoiler] tag awareness would be nice too...

[DragonByte Tech]

This mod is aware of all BBCode that can be used in non-forum areas as per the vBulletin options. We have no further control over BBCode parsing.

Note that if the text between BBCode tags go over the preview limit, BBCode will not parse correctly.

Fillip

[Kraxell]

You have a wrong URL in all of your Mod-discriptions (Translations available @ )

[tarzan22]

I can not find the option to delete unwanted messages

regards

[DragonByte Tech]

There is currently no way to delete status updates.

Fillip

[tarzan22]

Ok, then you can use it to spam, etc.

[GhettoTech]

If I have the pro version and "comment" on someone's response to a thread THROUGH the Live feed, does it post to the actual thread itself? or would these responses be separate?

[DragonByte Tech]

It doesn't, but in a future version the Pro version will display comments underneath each post :)


Fillip

[AURFSCAN]

Hi Fillip,

testing this and must say I like it very much.

I think the ability for the user to delete their status's is a must and displaying comments under/at bottom of post in thread would be great.

:)

Also a fix for resizing images on wall

add to additional.css or dbtech_livewall.css


.blockrow div.livewall_preview img {

max-width:600px;
}

[GhettoTech]

If a user uploads a picture or video, how does the feed react to it?

[DragonByte Tech]

It doesn't react at all, as there's no integration with the attachment system at the moment :)


Fillip

[GhettoTech]

It doesn't react at all, as there's no integration with the attachment system at the moment :)


Fillip

Is this a planned addition down the road?

[DragonByte Tech]

It's not currently on the todo list, but that can always change :)


Fillip

[AURFSCAN]

mod/admin editable status's and comments needed with this for sure. When i think about it, comments posted via wall not really needed to be posted to posts in thread, its pretty good as is. Attachments on wall, that would be good.

[Alibass]

Demo pics look nothing like lite version, what are they from the pro version?

Not impressed with mod, what good is it to post a status update when you cant post a comment to it in the lite version.

Lite version looks nothing more than a chat board... looks like we are going to have to uninstall this one unless there are some decent updates coming forth in the next release.

[sticky]

Nothing in the feed for when people add or remove a friend?

[Mr_Running]

These guys are smart and are great developers.
Status will be worked on :)
I would like to see an option for it to works with the forums.
Posts in thread from Live Feed

Giving the user the options of the forum view or the Live Feed view by clicking the navbar!
Somewhere down the road maybe an option to turn of forum and just view the live feed.
Now we are talking dynamite :) ...with additional ongoing additional pages :p
Maybe a Pro feature.

Edit: Whoops did I say that...:p

[Mr_Running]

Nothing in the feed for when people add or remove a friend?

I think vb still has issues (hooks) with friend.
but that would be cool :)

[DragonByte Tech]

Demo pics look nothing like lite version, what are they from the pro version?

Not impressed with mod, what good is it to post a status update when you cant post a comment to it in the lite version.

Lite version looks nothing more than a chat board... looks like we are going to have to uninstall this one unless there are some decent updates coming forth in the next release.The screenshots are indeed from the Pro version, only difference is the comments though :)

Nothing in the feed for when people add or remove a friend?That's because vBulletin does not currently store when a "relation" (i.e. contact or friend) was formed, so there's no way for me to tell if the friendship was new or old.


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Not impressed with mod, what good is it to post a status update when you cant post a comment to it in the lite version.

It still posts to the wall (and more importantly to your User Wall), letting people keep up to date with your status.

Lite version looks nothing more than a chat board... looks like we are going to have to uninstall this one unless there are some decent updates coming forth in the next release.

Not sure I follow you here... chat board? The lite version can't be used as a chat board...

I think you may have completely misunderstood the mod to be honest. The point of it is to provided a "Live Feed" of what's going on in the forum/with users. It lets users keep up with recent posts/actions in real time. If that's not what you're looking for this isn't the mod for you =)

Iain

[GhettoTech]

Demo pics look nothing like lite version, what are they from the pro version?

Not impressed with mod, what good is it to post a status update when you cant post a comment to it in the lite version.

Lite version looks nothing more than a chat board... looks like we are going to have to uninstall this one unless there are some decent updates coming forth in the next release.

You are out of your mind.

This is one of the best "Facebook Wall" plug-ins to date. I will be upgrading soon to the Pro version for the commenting as well. You can't blame them for not wanting to give the cow for free here...

If I could have only one feature added to this, it would be that the "Users Wall" would be a tab located in the User Profile section. This would encourage more people to use their pages just like in Facebook... please please please! Make it so!

[Alibass]

You are out of your mind.

This is one of the best "Facebook Wall" plug-ins to date. I will be upgrading soon to the Pro version for the commenting as well. You can't blame them for not wanting to give the cow for free here...

If I could have only one feature added to this, it would be that the "Users Wall" would be a tab located in the User Profile section. This would encourage more people to use their pages just like in Facebook... please please please! Make it so!
There is nothing wrong with the state of my mind. <Removed> Keep your personal comments to yourself and focus on commenting on the mod only.

[AURFSCAN]

Entries per page

This setting controls how many wall entries are shown before a "Load More" link is displayed.

How does this work? I dont see it on my install or on the feed @ dragonbyte tech

[DragonByte Tech]

Whoops, that was intended for a feature that wasn't able to be included for technical reasons. I will get the wording changed in the next version :)


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

You are out of your mind.

This is one of the best "Facebook Wall" plug-ins to date. I will be upgrading soon to the Pro version for the commenting as well. You can't blame them for not wanting to give the cow for free here...

If I could have only one feature added to this, it would be that the "Users Wall" would be a tab located in the User Profile section. This would encourage more people to use their pages just like in Facebook... please please please! Make it so!

That's high on the to-do list =) Cheers for the kind words.

Iain

[AURFSCAN]

I added a link in member action dropdown to view user's wall. something you might want to look at Fillip :)

edit: also added link on profile page.

[DragonByte Tech]

Good idea, I'll see if this can make it in the next version :)


Fillip

[GhettoTech]

There is nothing wrong with the state of my mind <Removed> Keep your personal comments to yourself and focus on commenting on the mod only.

Pretty sure I was commenting on the mod, but whatever.. if you don't like the mod then you have no reason to further comment in this thread.. k thanks bye...

Anyways, is there any information on when the next version of this mod should come out?

[KProjects]

Great mod - thanks! Installed!

[DragonByte Tech]

Pretty sure I was commenting on the mod, but whatever.. if you don't like the mod then you have no reason to further comment in this thread.. k thanks bye...

Anyways, is there any information on when the next version of this mod should come out?

There should be a new version on friday if all goes to plan.

Iain

[AURFSCAN]

Looking forward to the update.

Ive made some cosmetic changes to suit my forum (wall in tables) :)

Will the next update bring this out of beta? I see no problems with it.

[Dragaon]

There seems to be a inconsistent issue parsing bbcode, anyone else have this problem?

[Mr_Running]

There seems to be a inconsistent issue parsing bbcode, anyone else have this problem?

Yes, because of the limited characters and not seeing the... / closing bbcode tags.

[AURFSCAN]

Yes, because of the limited characters and not seeing the... / closing bbcode tags.

You can adjust preview character length in admincp. Keep increasing the count until you find some sort of balance between a preview and displaying a full post.. up it a little, mines set at 300.. works good

[thecore762]

I already posted this @ dbtech but I wanted to share this with the other users @ vb.org since probably some of you guys don't visit their site.

With Live Wall
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120222_6T_3AQ34/
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120222_B0_3AQ35/

Without Live Wall
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120223_5S_3B357/
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120223_ZD_3B358/

Basically what I am saying by that is that there is at least 4 seconds page render time difference.
It's pretty bad, really bad for me.

This is an excellent plugin, hopefully there will be some improvements done.

Here is what I put in the settings:


Entries Per Page 10 (def 20)
Refresh Rate 60 (def 30)

Time Between Status Updates 15 (def 5)

[Mr_Running]

You can adjust preview character length in admincp. Keep increasing the count until you find some sort of balance between a preview and displaying a full post.. up it a little, mines set at 300.. works good

Yes, I know :) thanks
I was only responding to answer the question.
Now, 300 may be a work around. If users are posting 300 or less.

I went looking and found this. :up:
This mod is aware of all BBCode that can be used in non-forum areas as per the vBulletin options. We have no further control over BBCode parsing.

Note that if the text between BBCode tags go over the preview limit, BBCode will not parse correctly.


Fillip

[blind-eddie]

The big question is will you create this for the loyal 3.8 series users?
I think I speak on behalf of most if not all 3.8 series users to say that we would really appreciate it.



Hit the https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/02/4.gif to the left if you would appreciate this for use in the 3.8 series.

[DragonByte Tech]

The big question is will you create this for the loyal 3.8 series users?
I think I speak on behalf of most if not all 3.8 series users to say that we would really appreciate it.We may create a vB 3.8 version, but there are currently no plans to do so :)


Fillip

[Alan_SP]

Basically what I am saying by that is that there is at least 4 seconds page render time difference.

I see difference only on first page load, not repeated.

Anyway, yes, optimizations if possible are always welcome.

[AURFSCAN]

Fillip & Iain

I'd like to see an option for the Entries per page (Forum Live Feed)

eg. show Last

1 hour
3 hours
6 hours
12 hours
24 hours

or similar.. :)

and possibly simlilar option for User Wall

eg. show Last

1 week
2 weeks
1 month


else pagination up to a set limit


or similar :D

[DragonByte Tech]

That's sadly not feasible for technical reasons :(
It would create a lot of server load to check the date stamp instead of just fetching the x latest entries.


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

I already posted this @ dbtech but I wanted to share this with the other users @ vb.org since probably some of you guys don't visit their site.

With Live Wall
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120222_6T_3AQ34/
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120222_B0_3AQ35/

Without Live Wall
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120223_5S_3B357/
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120223_ZD_3B358/

Basically what I am saying by that is that there is at least 4 seconds page render time difference.
It's pretty bad, really bad for me.

This is an excellent plugin, hopefully there will be some improvements done.

Here is what I put in the settings:


Entries Per Page 10 (def 20)
Refresh Rate 60 (def 30)

Time Between Status Updates 15 (def 5)Since this was cross-posted here and on our forum, I'll share the results here:

Depending on the size of your forum database, having the sidebar enabled can add load time such as the numbers reported here.

Disabling the forum sidebar block for LW returned the load times to normal, so it is 100% safe to leave the mod enabled even if you don't want to take the performance hit the sidebar presents :)


Fillip

[thecore762]

^ confirmed.
That's 100% accurate. :)

[ProFifaLeagues]

@Dragonbyte,Is there any way we can alter this so that Nothing but the Status updates get added to the Wall???
Would be great for us then for our needs on site

[CoffeeLovesYou]

Convert this to 3.8.x
Please please please

[DragonByte Tech]

@Dragonbyte,Is there any way we can alter this so that Nothing but the Status updates get added to the Wall???
Would be great for us then for our needs on siteYes, disable all other content types :)


Fillip

[ProFifaLeagues]

Yes, disable all other content types :)


Fillip

Would we need all members to do that Fillip or Is there a global way to do so sir?

[DragonByte Tech]

Do it in the Content Type Manager in the AdminCP.

Fillip

[ProFifaLeagues]

Thanks Sir,also to let others Know working Fine on 4.1.5

[DragonByte Tech]

Forum Live Feed & User Wall v1.2.0:
Feature: Status can now be updated from the Forum Sidebar
Feature: Sidebar can now display a preview of the content
Feature: Separate per-content type preview cutoff for the Sidebar
Feature: New Content Type: [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks Like: Button clicks for Posts
Change: Boosted performance of all aspects of the mod (Forum Sidebar / Live Walls) by ~90% (Based on the DBTech server - Your Mileage May Vary)

Fillip

[AURFSCAN]

great update, lots more features :up:

-possible beta bug if someone else can confirm? white page on view favourites

-future request

deletable status updates
recent entries page for user on user wall


thanks

[DragonByte Tech]

great update, lots more features :up:

-possible beta bug if someone else can confirm? white page on view favourites

-future request

deletable status updates
recent entries page for user on user wall


thanks

Just a little note that for feature requests if possible it's best to post them in the support forums at DBTech - we have a custom system there to track them to make sure they don't get lost/overlooked. Posts on vB.org tend to get lost in the shuffle/forgotten >.<

Iain

[thecore762]

This update is pure gold!
My forums are much faster now! Also the option to update the settings if your site loads slow in admincp to your liking is a huge plus

[sweetpotato]

Is it possible to exclude some certain forums to show posts on Live Feed?
Thanks,

[DragonByte Tech]

Is it possible to exclude some certain forums to show posts on Live Feed?
Thanks,That is a Pro-only feature :)


Fillip

[AURFSCAN]

<i>if possible it's best to post them in the support forums at DBTech</i>

No worries.. gotta break out of the vb.org junkie posting habit. .lol

[SpikeSaunders]

Looks quite great.
Is it possible to Follow a particular user?

We were hoping to use it like a 'soundoff' table where the latest show or release is announced by a user part of a particular usergroup with access to post. Then any other member can 'follow' that user to ensure they get notified of each show/released. :)

[ProFifaLeagues]

Any way to turn off the Wall on the Profile and Just use the One In the Forum blocks?
Would be a great way for our setup to run this mod for our needs...

[DragonByte Tech]

Looks quite great.
Is it possible to Follow a particular user?

We were hoping to use it like a 'soundoff' table where the latest show or release is announced by a user part of a particular usergroup with access to post. Then any other member can 'follow' that user to ensure they get notified of each show/released. :)The Pro version does let you view a "user wall" but it does not let you follow a user in that manner. This is due to the fact that LW simply reads off the other tables (say, for instance the posts table for Posts) and doesn't create entries of its own. That makes it extremely challenging to do notifications, but extremely easier to add new content types and does not depend on hooks being available.

Any way to turn off the Wall on the Profile and Just use the One In the Forum blocks?
Would be a great way for our setup to run this mod for our needs...There is no profile wall, you can disable the navbar tab via the settings :)


Fillip

[chimpmaster]

What do the links in the code "http://ajax.googleapis.com...." do in the script? They preload on pages and slows it down some. Is that a file that could be pulled from the server directory instead? Thanks. Great work on the mod as always. Think I will upgrade because the feature to reply from the live wall is a convenient.

[DragonByte Tech]

It fetches jQuery, the JavaScript library I use :)

Having it remote hosted is faster than locally hosted, because you can only fetch 1 locally hosted element at a time, whereas you can fetch locally hosted + remotely hosted items at the same time :)


Fillip

[DJ-Dez]

What's the chances of this on 3.8?

[DragonByte Tech]

What's the chances of this on 3.8?

High.

Iai

[meaters]

Uninstall.

Forum sidebar preview is f-ucked as content preview is not resized and images jump out of the forum borders.

[DragonByte Tech]

Uninstall.

Forum sidebar preview is f-ucked as content preview is not resized and images jump out of the forum borders.It's disappointing you choose not to let us know in the form of a feature request / bug report, but oh well. Can't please everybody I guess :)


Fillip

[meaters]

I highly appreciated you work and love your mods.

As I said threads with pics wrapped in [img] tags are not resized in forum side block and if it is a large photo it breaks the forum.

[DJ-Dez]

Love the plugin Ian, could you try get this on 3.8? How long could it take? Looks great, shame I can't use it fully though.

[Schoelle]

Same problem as with DavidsMods live feed addon.
If you have enabled quick reply and submit a reply containing special characters like the german umlauts they are totally messed up. Only after refreshing the page they are shown as they should.

[DragonByte Tech]

I am unable to replicate this issue. All special characters are working fine for me :)

It may be an issue with your database or your forum's language, I really don't know.


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Forum Live Feed & User Wall v1.2.1 (Beta):
Feature: Now available in a new flavour: vBulletin 3.8.x!
Feature: Parsing of [img] tags can now be turned off on the main feed as well as the sidebar
Fix: (vB4) Introduced a new CSS class in dbtech_livewall.css that should ensure videos / images are properly constrained within the sidebar

Fillip

[AndrewSimm]

What kind of server load does the pro version have?

[Schoelle]

I am unable to replicate this issue. All special characters are working fine for me :)

It may be an issue with your database or your forum's language, I really don't know.


Fillip

So what could be the reasen? Forum is running on german language.
It is only your mod and DavidsMod which is similar to yours causing this. After refreshing the page everythings fine. Also no problem with the advanced editor, only the quick reply has this problem.

[DragonByte Tech]

What kind of server load does the pro version have?That's impossible to tell as it varies based on server configuration and server specs, sorry.

So what could be the reasen? Forum is running on german language.
It is only your mod and DavidsMod which is similar to yours causing this. After refreshing the page everythings fine. Also no problem with the advanced editor, only the quick reply has this problem.If you are having similar problems with the Quick Reply then this further strengthens my reasoning that it is in fact not a problem with our mods. Your site is set up in a way that you are unable to use AJAX without it "breaking" special characters in that way.

Unfortunately I have zero experience with this because I have never had to deal with it - all characters work out of the box with a default install of vBulletin so I really don't know where the issue lies :(


Fillip

[Schoelle]

Sorry Fillip, my mistake! I had still DavidsMods vbLive active.
Your mod is working as it should!

[sweetpotato]

Cannot Exclude Recycle Bin and Ads forum. Only promode spams. Uninstalled.
Thanks,

[DragonByte Tech]

Sorry Fillip, my mistake! I had still DavidsMods vbLive active.
Your mod is working as it should!Ohh, no problem :) Glad you figured it out (and glad it wasn't this mod!).

We had some encoding issues with another one of our mods the other day D:

Cannot Exclude Recycle Bin and Ads forum. Only promode spams. Uninstalled.
Thanks,Exclude forums is a Pro-only feature :)


Fillip

[Robru]

Thanks for your update, Fillip :)

[R4rifi]

Thanx for Update, I have installed, images are resized within the side bar, but still if there is any text like URL, it goes beyond the side bar!

[meaters]

Forum Live Feed & User Wall v1.2.1 (Beta):
Feature: Now available in a new flavour: vBulletin 3.8.x!
Feature: Parsing of [img] tags can now be turned off on the main feed as well as the sidebar
Fix: (vB4) Introduced a new CSS class in dbtech_livewall.css that should ensure videos / images are properly constrained within the sidebar


Fillip

Thank you, images are now beautifully resized in the forum sidebar!

Awesome mod, marked as installed and voted for mod of the month.

:up:

[creppello]

Another nice one. I've got so much DBtech stuff I breath fire. Thanks again Phillip !!! I'm going to start upgrading to pro with some of our products soon. I have no issues with any of your stuff, and it's nice to work with so many mods from one source so they don't clash.

[DragonByte Tech]

Forum Live Feed & User Wall v1.2.2:
Feature: Status updates can now be deleted
Feature: Added profile tab for user walls (does not automatically update, but contains links to the full "live" user wall). This tab can be turned off via a setting in vBulletin Options.
Fix: Will no longer interfere with vBAdvanced.

For the same reason as edited posts etc don't update, deleted status updates won't vanish from other peoples' walls until they reload the page / it vanishes off their feed naturally.
This is to preserve resources and cannot be changed at this time.

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

PS: To whoever who was asking for censor to be implemented: This already worked, it is built into the BBCode parsing :)


Fillip

[GhettoTech]

Is there any plan on allowing users to post "What's on your mind" from the profile pages? I realize this page isn't "live" and updates on refresh as well. Are there any plans to make this update live as well?

[DragonByte Tech]

To my knowledge it's not possible for me to detect what tab you are currently viewing on the profile page, and it would be a waste of resources to have live updates if the user is not even viewing the updates.

Plus, I personally feel that it's sort of a waste to have TWO pages doing "show updates from user x" - especially considering the link to the person whose profile you are viewing is plastered all over the User Wall tab :)

That being said, the ability to submit a new status from your profile in a sideblock is a good idea and we'll look into it for a future version :)


Fillip

[Mr_Running]

the ability to submit a new status from your profile in a sideblock is a good idea and we'll look into it for a future version :)Fillip

Awesome!
A Status update Profile tab which would save all Status updates would be cool too. :)

Status Updates are valuable only if they are saved for the users.

It would be great to see a Status Updates profile tab with this
Forum Live Feed and User Wall mod :D

[meaters]

Youtube videos now display in the forum sidebar.

[burlesque]

Hi - I installed this on my test forum and everything was working fine, including the sidebar widget on the forumhome.

However, when I installed Everywhere Sidebar (www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=233871), the sidebar widget no longer appears.

Would you know why this is happening? I've not had any problems using Everywhere Sidebar before?!

[DragonByte Tech]

Apparently that mod is incapable of displaying custom sidebar blocks, it only works with built-in vBulletin ones. When I have the time, I'll install it on my test environment and see if I can make it work :)


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Hotfix: There was an issue with the "characters remaining" ticker displayed in the Forum Sidebar. To correct this, please re-download the zip file and re-import the XML file :)


Fillip

[meaters]

Thanks for this update, mod works like a charm, very fast and doesn't strain the server.

I also love the options in the admin panel.

[Gholsie]

Looks good so far. But, is there a way to change the tab description? It normally says "Live Feed" and then changes to "Forum Live Feed" when you click on it. I'd like it to just say "Feed"

Also, wondering if you have a widget for this as well? I'd like to add this to my CMS page.

[DragonByte Tech]

Looks good so far. But, is there a way to change the tab description? It normally says "Live Feed" and then changes to "Forum Live Feed" when you click on it. I'd like it to just say "Feed"You can edit the dbtech_livewall_navbar_link template :)

Also, wondering if you have a widget for this as well? I'd like to add this to my CMS page.Not currently, no :(


Fillip

[Mr_Running]

Looks good so far. But, is there a way to change the tab description? It normally says "Live Feed" and then changes to "Forum Live Feed" when you click on it. I'd like it to just say "Feed"

Languages & Phrases --> Search in Phrases --> Forum Live Feed --> Find

Varname: $vbphrase[dbtech_livewall_livewall]

Text: Forum Live Feed

change text to what you want :) Feed

[sniper pak]

In PRO version possible add other user activity (adding photos to album, adding video to mediagallery, adding ads to classifieds)? If yes, im go to buying PRO now ))

[DragonByte Tech]

In PRO version possible add other user activity (adding photos to album, adding video to mediagallery, adding ads to classifieds)? If yes, im go to buying PRO now ))

Those actions are not built in at this time, but if you create a feature request in the support forums over at DBTech they'll be considered for a future version =)

Iain

[DragonByte Tech]

In PRO version possible add other user activity (adding photos to album, adding video to mediagallery, adding ads to classifieds)? If yes, im go to buying PRO now ))The full list of data sources can be found at the top of every page :)


Fillip

[sweetpotato]

I have an issue. Site Admin cannot delete other's Statuses

[DragonByte Tech]

The latest update enabled that as a usergroup permission :)


Fillip

[sweetpotato]

I know, I have enabled Administrator Can Manage Others' Statuses but still cannot delete other's Statuses.

[DragonByte Tech]

Aha, I see it :)

I have hotfixed it in the download available here: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/vbecommerce.php?do=demo&productid=150

It will be fixed on vB.org in the next update :)


Fillip

[AURFSCAN]

Is this a 'pro' issue aswell?

[DragonByte Tech]

It was, but not anymore (as of the aforementioned hotfix) :)


Fillip

[sweetpotato]

Aha, I see it :)

I have hotfixed it in the download available here: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/vbecommerce.php?do=demo&productid=150

It will be fixed on vB.org in the next update :)


Fillip
Fixed it. Thank you.

[GameOverViper]

This is something that needs to replace the visitor messages on the profiles. Something more like Facebooks, rather than Twitters activity though.

[howarde]

I installed the lite version to help decide if I want to go pro. But I'm getting an invalid action when I go to the configure the settings in the adminCP.

I am a super administrator in the config.php, and have admin permissions for this plugin... so I'm not sure what I'm missing here.

[DragonByte Tech]

Please ensure you have uploaded the contents of the upload folder exactly as they are. Ctrl+A when inside the upload folder, then drag and drop this into your forum's folder. That will ensure the files are placed in their correct directories, and that error should not show up :)


Fillip

[howarde]

Whoops... I forgot to move the admincp to my renamed admincp folder.

[howarde]

If I have the dbtech userstatus, and this live feed, should a status update on a user's wall go to their userstatus automatically? Is this a pro feature or lite?

I am probably going pro anyway just to support this cool dev. Nice job.

I'm just monitoring how it does on a very active forum. We have over 1500 posts daily.

[xertox]

Everything is working well and I have not seen any errors yet. There is one little thing though...

When viewing the User Wall there is some html that is messing things up a little...

style= "max-width: 0px;"

Is there a template I can edit to remove this bit of html?

[DragonByte Tech]

Did you try searching for that code in the templates? I don't believe I added it anywhere...

Fillip

[FrancoUA]

A friend can post on my wall?

[Mr_Running]

This is something that needs to replace the visitor messages on the profiles. Something more like Facebooks, rather than Twitters activity though.

Yeah, I think it needs to tie in better with Visitor Messages and work more like a Wall.
It feels disconnected having the two tabs. Now if the User Wall had an editor and was the default tab when visiting the user profile that would be better. :)

[DragonByte Tech]

A friend can post on my wall?There's no Wall feature like FB so that's not currently possible, sorry :(


Fillip

[foreveryoung21]

All that's needed now is a like, so you can like other statuses, like FB.
I have VBSeo, is there anyway we can get this done?

[DragonByte Tech]

All that's needed now is a like, so you can like other statuses, like FB.
I have VBSeo, is there anyway we can get this done?

Adding integration with our advanced post thanks/like mod is on the to-do list =)

Iain

[donwon]

Hello and thanks for the awesome mod!

I got a problem though. I installed everything I think correctly but when I click to view the live feed links it just reloads the forum page. I can see the users wall and it's working but the live feed links are not.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[DragonByte Tech]

Could you try it on a default (unmodified) skin?

Fillip

[Mukashi]

Is the setting to be able to edit other's status something that only works in the Pro version? Doesn't seem to do anything in the Lite version we've just installed.

[DragonByte Tech]

Hmmm. Odd. The Quote tag doesn't seem to be parsing in the Forum Sidebar block for this addon. Why would that be happening? Oo;That would be because of the character preview cut-off :)

Is the setting to be able to edit other's status something that only works in the Pro version? Doesn't seem to do anything in the Lite version we've just installed.Nope, it's working fine in the Lite version that I just installed on a test board :)

Please double-check that you have configured the usergroup permissions correctly.


Fillip

[Mukashi]

Ahh, I see. So it's not actually parsing the rest of the quote, and so doesn't know to close it off? Hmmmm. Nothing that can be done to fix that?

Usergroup permissions are most certainly figured correctly. There's only one thing to configure there afterall. Unless we're just missing the exact place where we're supposed to do this editing?

[DragonByte Tech]

Ahh, I see. So it's not actually parsing the rest of the quote, and so doesn't know to close it off? Hmmmm. Nothing that can be done to fix that?Short of extending the preview cutoff, but that would just "postpone" the problem to another length of post :p

Usergroup permissions are most certainly figured correctly. There's only one thing to configure there afterall. Unless we're just missing the exact place where we're supposed to do this editing?Nope, just the Usergroup Manager :)


Fillip

[Mukashi]

I meant the editing of the user's status. But yeah, we were right about that setting, the issue wasn't there. Went back and checked again just to be sure.

[glen290]

Not a biggie for me but getting text outside of the borders on my forumblock, its only when I have posted a link..

[DragonByte Tech]

That will be fixed in the next version :)


Fillip

[ywwz]

wonderful mod!

[hpidriver]

Not sure if I missed the setting to edit this but... I have certain forum sections in which threads are visible only to the person who started the thread and staff members.

Live feed and wall posts this information even if a user has no permission to read thread or contents. Help?

[DragonByte Tech]

It doesn't post them, it simply displays the content, and it respects forum permissions :)


Fillip

[hpidriver]

I have a forum named "Contact Staff" where users have the following permissions:
Can View Forum - Yes
Can View Thread Content - Yes
Can View Others' Threads - No

User A and B are in the same usergroup with these permissions. Each can only see their own posted threads in this forum.
However when User A posts something in this private section, User B is able to see the contents of said post because it is displayed on the Live Feed and User Wall.

[DragonByte Tech]

Ah yes, it doesn't respect that particular setup, because it's virtually impossible to do so.

Forum exclusion is a Pro-only feature so there is no way to resolve this in the Lite version unfortunately :(


Fillip

[hpidriver]

So then the Pro version would eliminate this issue entirely?

[vivoperdio]

Any live demo site?

[Alan_SP]

You can check all DBTech's mod on their site.

They also have demo site where you can check ACP and test mods as an admin. But, I think that demo site is momentarily down.

[DragonByte Tech]

So then the Pro version would eliminate this issue entirely?You'd be able to exclude that specific forum from Live Wall, yeah :)


Fillip

[thecore762]

When will be the next release?

[DragonByte Tech]

We don't currently have an update for this mod planned, but we never make ironclad plans more than a month or so ahead in time :)


Fillip

[thecore762]

The reason I was asking was because you guys fixed the forum block on the right side when there are long links posted so it doesn't go outside of the box.

[DragonByte Tech]

Forum Live Feed & User Wall v1.2.3
Feature: Now compatible with vBulletin 4.2.0's Navigation Manager.

Fillip

[Robru]

Thank you for this update :)

[ddr100]

i have the pro version ... but i cant exclude forums ... i only want to display threads of one forum ... so i exclude the others... but nothing happen ... what can i do ?

[DragonByte Tech]

Please post Pro support requests in our Pro support forum :)


Fillip

[drewface]

Is it possible to remove the quotes around the status updates?

[DragonByte Tech]

Not currently, no. Sorry :(


Fillip

[Mukashi]

Just updated to the latest version of this on vB 4.1.11, and got the following error. We've noticed this error on upgrading other DBTech mods recently as well. Any idea what could be causing it? We don't have this issue with any other mods.

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in [path]/includes/adminfunctions_plugin.php on line 1557

[DragonByte Tech]

Just updated to the latest version of this on vB 4.1.11, and got the following error. We've noticed this error on upgrading other DBTech mods recently as well. Any idea what could be causing it? We don't have this issue with any other mods.

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in [path]/includes/adminfunctions_plugin.php on line 1557Replied to in the duplicate of this post in the other thread :)


Fillip

[tsptom]

In regards to permissions issue, there is a forum "spy" version of a live feed, similar the the new Activity Stream, that only displays posts in the live feed to folks who have access to that thread.

This looks very cool but without the ability to keep non-subscribed members from viewing private forums / threads, I can't use it. It sounds like the Pro version will only let us determine who can view the feed and who can't - not by thread permissions. Is that correct?

Another great mod, however. Thanks.

[DragonByte Tech]

In both the Lite and Pro versions, Live Wall will not display threads that are in forums users cannot view, or lack the password for.

If they can view the forum and thread titles, but not thread content - or if they can only view their own threads, then Live Wall will still display the thread.

The Pro version lets you flat out exclude forums from showing up, so if one of your forums matched the above exception then you could exclude that forum.

Fillip

[tsptom]

Strange. That's not what I am seeing. I have signed in as a user without permissions and completely logged out, yet both times I could still see the private threads posts in the live feed. When I click on the thread link it tells me I don't have permission to read that thread, but I can view the contents of the post in the live feed wall.

Maybe I have something set wrong? ty

By the way, I plan to buy a few Pro mods from you after trying the lites. Not only are they all cool, but your support here has been awsome!

[DragonByte Tech]

Can you enter the forum permissions manager for that specified forum for guests, and take screenshots of the permission setup? If so, maybe I can get to the bottom of this :)


Fillip

[tsptom]

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/06/2.gif

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/06/3.gif

And here are the ones with permission...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/06/4.gif


If you need anything else, let me know. If you'd like the link to the live feed I can PM you. I've changed the name from the default to keep memebrs from getting to it.

[tsptom]

This private forum is working correctly in the live wall feed and I see "Can View Forum" is set to '"no" for registered users, so that must be the difference.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/06/1.gif

I do want some of the private forums to show on the forum homepage, but I don't want registered users to be able to read the threads.

The difference between them is, one is for moderators (not visible) and the other private forums are for folks who have subscribed (paid) for access to these forums, so I want the nonsubsribers to see that there are forums they can't read unless they subscribe.

If you are looking for some input, I wouldn't mind seeing the thread title but no content in the feed for forums with "Can view forum" and "Cannot view thread" permissions. That's what Valter does with his Advanced Forum Stats mod.

[DragonByte Tech]

I can see that, would you mind reposting the input in our support forum over at www.dragonbyte-tech.com as a feature request?

That way, we can be sure that it won't get missed when we're updating the product next :)

Thanks :)


Fillip

[grzywa92]

I set to wyświetlało me the same status update, I turned on the manager sidebar blocks and columns, but unfortunately the Live Feed sidebar is not displayed at all ...

What to do?

[GONUMBER6]

I randomly get this database error, not often, just sometimes. Can you tell me what it means?

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.8:

Invalid SQL:

### INSERT QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
INSERT INTO dbtech_livewall_settings
(`userid`)
VALUES
('0');

MySQL Error : Duplicate entry '0' for key 'PRIMARY'
Error Number : 1062
Request Date : Tuesday, July 31st 2012 @ 08:11:32 PM
Error Date : Tuesday, July 31st 2012 @ 08:11:33 PM
Script : http://www.englishbulldognews.com/forums/livewall.php?do=profile&action=options
Referrer :
IP Address : 66.249.71.146
Username : Unregistered
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

[DragonByte Tech]

Please update to version 1.2.3 and see if you still receive the emails, as this has been fixed a long time ago :)


Fillip

[grzywa92]

why can not I get sidebar, if I all right?
Is there something that I particularly pay attention to?

version 4.2.0

[ywwz]

Just installed, forum/livewall.php is working fine but not working in side bar.
working on 4.2.0 as well.
hey, this might help!
https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/397462-Sidebar-not-showing-up?p=2271669&viewfull=1#post2271669

[grzywa92]

Just installed, forum/livewall.php is working fine but not working in side bar.
working on 4.2.0 as well.
hey, this might help!
https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/397462-Sidebar-not-showing-up?p=2271669&viewfull=1#post2271669

not working for me...
i have in everywhere sidebar blocks "new posts" and "new threads" , but LIVE WALL not displayed i don't know why.

Who have any idea?

[DragonByte Tech]

Have you actually added a forum block via the Forum Blocks Manager?

Fillip

[AURFSCAN]

hiya DBT

any way to disable display settings and privacy settings for members in that the feed will display everthing and they have no choice in what gets displayed

eg.
1. just me
2. everyone
3. your contacts
4. your friends

so in effect disable 1,3, and 4

[grzywa92]

Have you actually added a forum block via the Forum Blocks Manager?


Fillip

yes , sure!

[DragonByte Tech]

hiya DBT

any way to disable display settings and privacy settings for members in that the feed will display everthing and they have no choice in what gets displayed

eg.
1. just me
2. everyone
3. your contacts
4. your friends

so in effect disable 1,3, and 4That's not currently possible, sorry :(

You can disable the plugins that integrate into the UserCP, but that won't undo any existing customisations.


Fillip

[deverill2010]

DB, can I ask something.

Is this the activity stream and wall in one. I.e they are intergrated, or is it two seperate thing?

I just don't want to have an 'activity stream' and then a 'wall', they should be in one as facebook is. Ifyswim?

[deverill2010]

DB? Will this do what I want or is it two separate pages? I'm referring to the paid version by the way.

[DragonByte Tech]

Yes, it's integrated. User Wall is what happens if you click a username - you get taken to their personalised stream similar to Facebook.

If you are using the Pro version, please post support questions in our Pro support forums :)


Fillip

[deverill2010]

Regarding compatability with this mod - vBLive Status Updates which one is it exactly? As there are a couple from what I can see.

[deverill2010]

I thought I would test it out and ry to customise it. But..

How do I display the status box on showthread?

I have copied this -

<vb:if condition="$vboptions['dbtech_livewall_status_maxlength']">
<div class="collapse" style="padding-bottom:10px;">
<h2 class="blockhead">{vb:rawphrase dbtech_livewall_whats_on_mind} <a class="collapse" id="collapse_dbtech_livewall_status" href="{vb:raw relpath}#top"><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_button}/collapse_40b.png" alt="" /></a></h2>
<div class="blockbody formcontrols settings_form_border" id="dbtech_livewall_status">
<div class="blockrow">
<input type="text" class="primary textbox" name="livewall_textfield" data-command="status" style="width:100%" />
<br />
<div style="margin-top:6px;"><input type="button" class="button" name="livewall_submit" data-command="status" value="{vb:rawphrase post}" /> <span class="dbtech_livewall_smallfont">[<span name="livewall_remainingchars" data-command="status">{vb:var vboptions.dbtech_livewall_status_maxlength}</span>]</span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</vb:if>

And put it in SHOWTHREAD where the status box shows correctly, however it doesn't work. I can type in it but it doesn't post the status update.

[Draffi]

I have some questions, too:

Whats happend with:
- Blog integration
- Content (.php) CMS integration
- integration from your other mods (e.g. User Status & Moods, Quiz...)

Can you do this?

[DragonByte Tech]

I have some questions, too:

Whats happend with:
- Blog integration
- Content (.php) CMS integration
- integration from your other mods (e.g. User Status & Moods, Quiz...)

Can you do this?Nothing's happened with it thus far, we'll take it into consideration for future versions :)


Fillip

[se7o]

istalld

How can i change the font color of the user post?

[DragonByte Tech]

You'll need to edit the templates, look for the templates named "entry" for this mod :)


Fillip

[qpurser]

I might have missed something or overlooked some of the features but can you tell me what the exact difference is between the "standard" vB4 Live Stream and this Mod?
Also is there a cutoff date for retrieving data?

Thx
Michael

[sticky]

On VB 4.2.0 and it just isn't working. No link to the wall under community or quick links. No link on the profile page.

Installed correctly...

[sticky]

My bad, had to enable it manually under permissions.

The problem I'm having is images are way too big. Why doesn't the image resizer I'm using work in the feed: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=233293&highlight=image

[sticky]

This mod should also display videos that are already embedded in the forum in the full feed.

Also, post previews should be longer on the full page feed.

In the sidebar I'm not sure why but I get a horizontal scroll bar like this on posts with youtube links that don't seem to fit in the feed right:

[sticky]

The wall also does not have links in blue so all the text blends together. How do I change the link color so it looks cleaner like the VB Activity stream?

[sticky]

Can I edit the font size as well?

[sticky]

Support? Really want to use this and considering purchasing pro but my version looks nothing like the pictures DBtech has posted.

BBcode in the activity stream isn't parsing as you can see in my picture above, it shows the quote tags. Just looks messy.

[DragonByte Tech]

My bad, had to enable it manually under permissions.

The problem I'm having is images are way too big. Why doesn't the image resizer I'm using work in the feed: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=233293&highlight=imageBecause the image resizer doesn't work with AJAX-added images, it's a design flaw in your image resizer :)

This mod should also display videos that are already embedded in the forum in the full feed.It does, provided the video embed is within the cut-off limit (both the start and end tag).

Also, post previews should be longer on the full page feed.Then change the settings for the Content Types :)

In the sidebar I'm not sure why but I get a horizontal scroll bar like this on posts with youtube links that don't seem to fit in the feed right:Would you prefer it if it stretched your page? :p
This happens when a string that's not broken up by a space is posted.

The wall also does not have links in blue so all the text blends together. How do I change the link color so it looks cleaner like the VB Activity stream?It uses the same link colour style as the rest of vBulletin, I'm not sure if it's a stylevar or a CSS class. Probably a stylevar.

Can I edit the font size as well?You could do that either via the CSS or via the templates. This is a customisation that we're unable to assist with, however. If you're not comfortable editing CSS or templates, please contact your skin developer for assistance.

Support?

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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com (http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/)

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Posts complaining about the lack of support in a free mod when you're posting on the unofficial modification support channel (we don't have the same level of alerts / issue tracking available on vBulletin.org as we do on our own website, which is why we give priority to posts on our forums) is a sure-fire way of annoying the coder ;)

It's generally considered quite rude :)

BBcode in the activity stream isn't parsing as you can see in my picture above, it shows the quote tags. Just looks messy.BBCode cannot parse when the cut-off limit has been reached, for obvious reasons. If the closing quote tag does not exist in the trimmed content, then it cannot parse it.


Fillip

[sticky]

Because the image resizer doesn't work with AJAX-added images, it's a design flaw in your image resizer :)

So would you suggest a solution?

It does, provided the video embed is within the cut-off limit (both the start and end tag).

So how do I increase this cutoff limit?

Then change the settings for the Content Types :)

Would you prefer it if it stretched your page? :p
This happens when a string that's not broken up by a space is posted.

It uses the same link colour style as the rest of vBulletin, I'm not sure if it's a stylevar or a CSS class. Probably a stylevar.

Shouldn't you know which stylevar? Or if it even is a stylevar? All I know is the Activity Stream looks perfecta and this doesn't so I can't sit around guessing what I need to change you should know.

You could do that either via the CSS or via the templates. This is a customisation that we're unable to assist with, however. If you're not comfortable editing CSS or templates, please contact your skin developer for assistance.

You can't assist on how to change the font? Perhaps with some better coding you guys could have stylevars to make this simple? Not being able to change the font seems like a design flaw but hopefully it's something you can improve in future releases.

Posts complaining about the lack of support in a free mod when you're posting on the unofficial modification support channel (we don't have the same level of alerts / issue tracking available on vBulletin.org as we do on our own website, which is why we give priority to posts on our forums) is a sure-fire way of annoying the coder ;)

It's generally considered quite rude :)

So I need to buy a mod that is not working as I expect to begin with to get support? I'd like to see how your support is first before I invest any money. Hence the point of lite products right? Calling me rude when I'm considering buying SEVERAL of your products is bad for business as you may have just cost yourself several sales, at least several from me alone. This is a sure-fire way to annoy a potential customer.

BBCode cannot parse when the cut-off limit has been reached, for obvious reasons. If the closing quote tag does not exist in the trimmed content, then it cannot parse it.

So how do I increase the cut off limit? I want all the BB code to parse so it doesn't look bad like it does.

[DragonByte Tech]

So would you suggest a solution?Examine alternative image resizer solutions that are written to support AJAX-loaded images, or commission one to be created :)

So how do I increase this cutoff limit?As I said, the Content Type settings for this mod.

AdminCP -> DBTech - Live Feed -> Manage Content Types -> Edit.


Shouldn't you know which stylevar? Or if it even is a stylevar?Unfortunately it's not feasible for me to be familiar with every possible style out there :(

If your skin has customised the sidebar_content_link_color / sidebar_content_link_hover_color stylevar and yet it still doesn't work, then there is something else up with your skin and I am as in the dark as you are. I have not only no idea who developed your skin, what it's called, what customisations it applied...

You can't assist on how to change the font?For the simple reason that if we were open to providing customisations of our products, that's literally all we'd be doing.

All we can really do is point people in the direction of where to go, and adequately explain why we can't assist with the customisations. I understand that I've failed at both of those tasks, and for that I apologise.

The templates to edit are dbtech_livewall_block_entry and dbtech_livewall_block_entries to boost the font sizes used in this mod.


So I need to buy a mod that is not working as I expect to begin with to get support?Not at all. Under no circumstances does posting Lite support requests in our Lite support forums require any form of purchase, furthermore support is not included in the Pro licence fee - the licence fee is exclusively a measure of the time it took to create the modification.

While I obviously can't speak for the future, I very strongly doubt you will ever see anyone from DBTech asking you to pay for support - unless the tradition of paying for the development time of software goes away globally at any rate, which it shows no signs of doing :)

I'd like to see how your support is first before I invest any money. Hence the point of lite products right?An argument could be made for that, certainly. Personally, I put out Lite products to give people an idea of the product itself, not my support.
I suppose everyone has their individual reasons for using a Lite product first while testing for the Pro version.

I want all the BB code to parse so it doesn't look bad like it does.That's impossible to ensure unless you display the full post on your wall.

If a person posts a post that is 300 characters long, the first 3 characters is and the last 4 are , then it will display correctly for a cutoff limit of 300.

However, if they post a post that is 350 characters long, with the same configuration, the first [B] will still remain unparsed.

The only thing I might be able to do is clean up unparsed BBCode tags, but would that not simply shift the issue onto "the post is not formatted correctly"?

Calling me rude when I'm considering buying SEVERAL of your products is bad for business as you may have just cost yourself several sales, at least several from me alone. This is a sure-fire way to annoy a potential customer.If you chose to take offence from it then I do apologise, it was not intended as a personal attack. It was merely a notification that because you are posting on vBulletin.org and not DragonByte-Tech.com, where our ability to quickly provide support is severely diminished, you should not complain about having to wait 24 hours for support.

If you could see it from my PoV, you'd see that it's quite annoying to me when that happens. I chose to notify you that your behaviour was considered rude to me rather than directly insult you or ignore you - I'm sure there have been times where you've wanted to lash out at someone for making your blood boil too but have managed to restrain yourself :)

To give you a better idea of why we prefer people posting on DBTech, look at our forum home page: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php
I do believe we have it set up so guests can see the Top X Stats blocks.
I use those, plus our Forum Tabs with AJAX reloading that I've configured to only show my mod forums (for when I've been away or read threads have been bumped off the Top X Stats), plus our vBShout (which I don't believe guests can see) to ensure that I'm always up to date on threads that have already been posted and have simply been replied to.

I normally check those forums once every couple hours, more often than not several times every hour.

In addition to all of that, I receive instant email notifications whenever someone posts a thread, which has the thread title as well as the issue type.
As an example, I might receive an email saying "sticky has posted a new Bug: Installed vBShout, my forum is now down with errors
In forum: vBShout Lite Support"

I'll go "crap, this sounds serious. I better click it right away!" and the thread will usually be answered instantly - so long as I'm at the computer and working.

Not only that, but if someone posts a Feature Request, not only is it logged in our system until the end of time so it never gets lost in the pages, but I know I don't have to answer that OMGNOW like I would my previous example.

Compare that to vBulletin.org, which requires me to answer "less serious" posts before I even receive a notification that says you have replied to the vBShout vB4 thread saying your site is now down with errors.


Hopefully this gives you a better idea of why we prefer people posting on our own forums rather than vBulletin.org :)


Fillip

[qpurser]

Fillip has been so busy with Sticky he probably overlooked my posting #203 :)

[sticky]

Examine alternative image resizer solutions that are written to support AJAX-loaded images, or commission one to be created :)

As I said, the Content Type settings for this mod.

AdminCP -> DBTech - Live Feed -> Manage Content Types -> Edit.


Unfortunately it's not feasible for me to be familiar with every possible style out there :(

If your skin has customised the sidebar_content_link_color / sidebar_content_link_hover_color stylevar and yet it still doesn't work, then there is something else up with your skin and I am as in the dark as you are. I have not only no idea who developed your skin, what it's called, what customisations it applied...

For the simple reason that if we were open to providing customisations of our products, that's literally all we'd be doing.

All we can really do is point people in the direction of where to go, and adequately explain why we can't assist with the customisations. I understand that I've failed at both of those tasks, and for that I apologise.

The templates to edit are dbtech_livewall_block_entry and dbtech_livewall_block_entries to boost the font sizes used in this mod.


Not at all. Under no circumstances does posting Lite support requests in our Lite support forums require any form of purchase, furthermore support is not included in the Pro licence fee - the licence fee is exclusively a measure of the time it took to create the modification.

While I obviously can't speak for the future, I very strongly doubt you will ever see anyone from DBTech asking you to pay for support - unless the tradition of paying for the development time of software goes away globally at any rate, which it shows no signs of doing :)

An argument could be made for that, certainly. Personally, I put out Lite products to give people an idea of the product itself, not my support.
I suppose everyone has their individual reasons for using a Lite product first while testing for the Pro version.

That's impossible to ensure unless you display the full post on your wall.

If a person posts a post that is 300 characters long, the first 3 characters is and the last 4 are , then it will display correctly for a cutoff limit of 300.

However, if they post a post that is 350 characters long, with the same configuration, the first [B] will still remain unparsed.

The only thing I might be able to do is clean up unparsed BBCode tags, but would that not simply shift the issue onto "the post is not formatted correctly"?

If you chose to take offence from it then I do apologise, it was not intended as a personal attack. It was merely a notification that because you are posting on vBulletin.org and not DragonByte-Tech.com, where our ability to quickly provide support is severely diminished, you should not complain about having to wait 24 hours for support.

If you could see it from my PoV, you'd see that it's quite annoying to me when that happens. I chose to notify you that your behaviour was considered rude to me rather than directly insult you or ignore you - I'm sure there have been times where you've wanted to lash out at someone for making your blood boil too but have managed to restrain yourself :)

To give you a better idea of why we prefer people posting on DBTech, look at our forum home page: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php
I do believe we have it set up so guests can see the Top X Stats blocks.
I use those, plus our Forum Tabs with AJAX reloading that I've configured to only show my mod forums (for when I've been away or read threads have been bumped off the Top X Stats), plus our vBShout (which I don't believe guests can see) to ensure that I'm always up to date on threads that have already been posted and have simply been replied to.

I normally check those forums once every couple hours, more often than not several times every hour.

In addition to all of that, I receive instant email notifications whenever someone posts a thread, which has the thread title as well as the issue type.
As an example, I might receive an email saying "sticky has posted a new Bug: Installed vBShout, my forum is now down with errors
In forum: vBShout Lite Support"

I'll go "crap, this sounds serious. I better click it right away!" and the thread will usually be answered instantly - so long as I'm at the computer and working.

Not only that, but if someone posts a Feature Request, not only is it logged in our system until the end of time so it never gets lost in the pages, but I know I don't have to answer that OMGNOW like I would my previous example.

Compare that to vBulletin.org, which requires me to answer "less serious" posts before I even receive a notification that says you have replied to the vBShout vB4 thread saying your site is now down with errors.


Hopefully this gives you a better idea of why we prefer people posting on our own forums rather than vBulletin.org :)


Fillip

Ok I'm just going to generally respond here.

The key seems to me to be the manage content types setting. Thank you, I see what you mean here.

I made the length pretty long so basically it's like getting a stream of all posts in full which is great.

Now, if you want support requests on your forum no problem. I posted at VB.org since this is where I found out about your product and you have provided support in this thread. Some coders say support is only on their forum but you guys haven't done that hence my posting here. If you prefer it there fine, I understand.

Now what I don't understand is why do images get resized in the sidebar but not on the full feed? I'll see what I can do about having an image resizer made that works with AJAX I guess as this is important.

Now I would like to buy this product but there are a couple hurdles. First, the full comment posting does not actually post to the thread as a new reply but as a separate comment on a reply. I would much prefer if I could just use the feed and respond to everyone in threads directly from the feed never having to leave it. You could post everywhere from a single page, brilliant.

Also, I was hoping the status updates would go in a status update thread. That way the forum would have sort of a big thread everyone can quickly post in. This would increase forum activity and post count tremendously.

Would you guys consider implementing these changes?

[sticky]

Also, having this problem where if a post comes in live instead of using ' ' marks it displays the whole quote box. If I refresh it's fine:

[sticky]

Another issue, seems to have trouble with url's in quotes:

[DragonByte Tech]

As a note to anyone else, this has been handled over @ our forums :)


Fillip

[TopShelfGamer]

fixed

[DragonByte Tech]

Add define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true); directly beneath <?php in your config.php file.


Fillip

[TopShelfGamer]

Add define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true); directly beneath <?php in your config.php file.


Fillip

it was actually an problem with how i saved my config.php file.

[DragonByte Tech]

Forum Live Feed & User Wall v1.2.4
Fix: The Status input area still showed if status updates were disabled
Fix: Added DBTech Affiliate System integration
Fix: Changed link to jQuery to be SSL compatible

Fillip

[tuRiver]

Does this replace the "Activity" tab?

[DragonByte Tech]

You can, if you so choose, do that in vBulletin 4.2's Navigation Manager.

Fillip

[tuRiver]

You can, if you so choose, do that in vBulletin 4.2's Navigation Manager.


Fillip

Hi Fillip

And what about on user profile? Activity and Visitor messages should be replaced by this mod, right?

[DragonByte Tech]

No, mods have no way of disabling other profile tabs, and this does in no way, shape or form replace the data displayed in the Visitor Messages tab.

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

v1.2.5
Fix: UTF-8 characters would not display correctly when they were fetched via AJAX.

Fillip

[chaz7979]

Are there any examples of this mod in action?

What kind of load does it put on a server?

[DragonByte Tech]

Our "all mods enabled" domain, www.dbtech.co has this mod in action.

The load depends on your settings and popularity of your site, it's impossible to answer that.


Fillip

[chaz7979]

I understand that it is highly variable but, do you have any idea what kind of additional resources are needed for say 100 users using the feature?

If you had 100 users logged into the site and they were all using the feature would it create double the typle load? triple?

[chaz7979]

Where on www.dbtech.co can I see this plugin in action?

[RoC wonko]

Hi have installed this mod but get a white blank page where the wall should be any ideas what needs to be done.

[DragonByte Tech]

I understand that it is highly variable but, do you have any idea what kind of additional resources are needed for say 100 users using the feature?

If you had 100 users logged into the site and they were all using the feature would it create double the typle load? triple?That depends on the specs of your server, how many people are doing other activities on the forums, [...]

I really can't tell you any estimations, it would be 100% random and guesswork only with absolutely no basis in fact.

Where on www.dbtech.co can I see this plugin in action?www.dbtech.co/livewall.php :)

Hi have installed this mod but get a white blank page where the wall should be any ideas what needs to be done.Try putting ini_set('display_errors', true); directly beneath <?php in your config.php file :)


Fillip

[chaz7979]

That depends on the specs of your server, how many people are doing other activities on the forums, [...]

I really can't tell you any estimations, it would be 100% random and guesswork only with absolutely no basis in fact.


Lets assume there are 100 users and the are only using livewall, nothing else at all. Compare the load of 100 normal vb users (no wall) vs 100 users using only the wall.

Forget about 100... how about this very simple question. Will one user using livewall require more resources than one user simply browsing the website? The obvious answer is yes so, the question is, how much more resources? 1.5x a normal user? 2x a normal user?

If both of those questions still do not work... what can you tell me? ;)

[chaz7979]

www.dbtech.co/livewall.php :)

I cant test because I can't signup. Your keycaptcha is broken http://www.dbtech.co/register.php?do=addmember

[DragonByte Tech]

Try registering via www.dragonbyte-tech.com instead :)


Fillip

[chaz7979]

Try registering via www.dragonbyte-tech.com instead :)


Fillip

I did but, livewall is not enabled on that website.

[DragonByte Tech]

They're both the same website, just the domain selectively disables each mod :)


Fillip

[Honourable]

Hi,

I have got a problem as the live feed doesnt really display the avatar changes??

I have changed the avatar many times but it doesnt display the news

I was planning to purchase the Pro as I thought that the lite havent got this feature yet I just found it included in the Lite

I'm wondering what it may has caused this issue

using VB 4.1.12

Looking forward to your reply

Many thanks in advance

[DragonByte Tech]

It could be a conflict with another mod, can you try disabling all other modifications and see if that works :)


Fillip

[Honourable]

Hi, Is not I have disabled all modificatio even though in your demo at your majesty website it doesnt display recent avatar changes

I would really like to purchase the pro as long as you assure it does work

Many thanks in advance

[DragonByte Tech]

Forum Live Feed & Live Wall v1.2.6
Feature: Improved logging details for Control Panel actions
Fix: Fixed a Strict Standards error in the Cache class
Change: Changed the Branding display method to inject itself into the copyright footer (underneath vBulletin copyright) instead of the page footer.
Change: Changed the Branding Free Key to a more secure key.

Fillip

[FakeMessiah666]

This is one of my favorite mods, and all of DBTech's mods are well-made and really easy to use, edit and install. Great job, I'll definitely be updating to pro in the near future for comment support. :D

[Toorak Times]

Hey guys, any news on my upgrade...paid for...

[DragonByte Tech]

Hey guys, any news on my upgrade...paid for...I'm still waiting on you to check your records for any mention of the payment received so that we can check our records for the matching transaction :)


Fillip

[FakeMessiah666]

Hey, is there anyway to edit the style of the statuses in the forum blocks so they're not indented and to be able to remove the quotes around the status text?

[ardid]

what's the best method to uninstall it ? i'm testing some mods, but if I go to uninstall this product (vbulletin 4.1.2) then all crash ... i have blank screen and some error in error.log ... only when I uninstall it...

[DragonByte Tech]

Hey, is there anyway to edit the style of the statuses in the forum blocks so they're not indented and to be able to remove the quotes around the status text?You need to edit the dbtech_livewall_block_entry template, there's " {vb:raw entry.preview} "

what's the best method to uninstall it ? i'm testing some mods, but if I go to uninstall this product (vbulletin 4.1.2) then all crash ... i have blank screen and some error in error.log ... only when I uninstall it...Remove all the files that came with the product after uninstalling it in vBulletin :)

[mad4social]

My suggestion for pro version. Extend post thanks to live feed (status and comment) and add also a module for social group.

[FakeMessiah666]

You need to edit the dbtech_livewall_block_entry template, there's " {vb:raw entry.preview} "

Okay, thank you very much. Where`s the .css file so I can edit the indentation of the statuses?

[DragonByte Tech]

Under the CSS Templates template group :)


Fillip