Looks like a great mod is there a way of adding it to a side column instead of the navbar?

It could be added anywhere, but you need to consider the 200 pixel width. Obviously, the coding would need to be changed slightly, so it would function in a side-column which I assume is on vBulletin.

Hi Syrus,

Thanks for the reply looks like a great mod.

I'm running this for the side column https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=175181

I'll give it a try and see how it looks and report back if it's do'able if the coding could be done then I wouldn't mind paying for the branding free version you mentioned in the install package.

I've been using a news ticker until now but I've discovered via my host that it's causing my site to be massively slow if it can't get the rss feed, like if the site is slown or down for example so looking for an alternative and this seems ideal, if not better!

It shouldn't cause issues, because it is flash-based and only calls the feed in if available, if not then it just shuts down, it doesn't make any other calls. So if the feed is dead, it just shows nothing, but most websites feeds should show - it handles many feed types.

Sorry for the reply, but I've been busy working on another large vbulletin website.

Hi there,

Have installed it for a few days now trialling it out but I'm a bit concerned about how much traffic this is producing as firefox is constantly saying "transferring data from <website url>"

I assume it's doing this for everyone on my site surely that's producing a decent amount of traffic/bandwidth opposed to a system that just goes and gets an rss feed say once every 30 mins and then everyone uses the stored feed?

Look forward to your thoughts.

The actual coding in flash doesn't mean it is constantly pulling data externally. It only refreshes once upon a page load, some AJAX versions do actually have refresh intervals, however this one doesn't work like that. The amount of data would not change if a visitor was on any page for 1 minute or a few hours, it pulls once and that is it.

Firefox will show any flash object constantly transfering data even if it is not. The reason is because data is pulled externally via the proxy file, therefore the flash object may look to the browser that data is being continually sent/received - the fact is if the flash object was set to stop after pulling the data once then it would not show this message, but then the RSS feed would fail.

Bandwidth shouldn't be an issue, it is only the cost of the main flash object you would need to worry about, if that. The swf is designed to be compact as much as possible, this is why some people have mentioned certain languages failing, if all languages were embedded then the file size would be over 400k per page load, which is far beyond anything we would consider releasing.

Hope that explains it a bit better. :)

Installed for testing .... :)

Thanks you ... nice work ... :up:

Is there any way to make the box a little shorter, but wider? I mean, is there someplace I can set the height and width?

Also, for last posts, how many does it pull and is it the vBulletin external file that specifies that?

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