Glad to be a help TTG.

Not bad for something that is free, huh? :)

Hi Andy,

I would agree that some of the content submitted is probably not the most needed additions to Synergy and probably not what other members really want to see. You can report threads, but I think some more functionality would be needed to really improve the system.

If you have any ideas, we would love to hear them. You can submit them here:
http://network.zoints.com/forumdisplay.php?f=41

- Reid

I have installed this on 3.6.8. I followed all the instructions but the forum never gets any content placed in it. What am I doing wrong? Is the forum supposed to be a link to synergy.php?

Hi Richie, did you you fill out the token and authorization key in the vB Admin CP (that you got from Zoints)? And if you click on Synergy (from the forum index) you should go to synergy.php

- Reid

Only just installed and iv read every post in this thread and think it is a great idea.

Still trying to figure ut the best way to use it.

One idea for the not so good content on there would be like digg and have some kind of bury system. ie. If something is reported 10 times it is automaticly removed.

How much traffic are people seeing from using this?

Still a little undecided but i do think its a great mod up to know.

i didn't think this was supported or worked anymore? Am I incorrect?

Brilliant work Zoints, Im addiiiiiiiiiiiiicted , so much talents on vbulletin.org, it rocks

on question zoints, is it the official thread or there is much advanced beta version on your website network.zoints.com , I have been crawling it fastly without any luck finding it

I really do not know how much traffic increase people are getting from Synergy to be honest, but we have certainly talked about how to deal with poor content. Right now we are focusing on Zoints Local's upcoming release, but we do see Synergy as a big part of our future and would like to optimize it as it is not perfect.

If you ever have any ideas of how we could improve it, as you suggested here, feel free to share it with the team at:
http://network.zoints.com/forumdisplay.php?f=41

Zoints Synergy does still work and it is still supported. If you have any troubles getting it to work, just let us know and we can help get you going.

Thanks for the compliment class101, we're glad that some can see why this is such a cool idea. If more shared in that process, Synergy would really be ever more beneficial to those who use it.

As for your question, I am a bit unsure about what you are asking, but we do support it here on this thread, at our support forums (http://network.zoints.com) and through our ticket system (http://zoints.com/support.z). As for another version, the one you see here is the last released version of Zoints Synergy. If that did not address your question, please clarify it further and I'll try again.

- Reid

My "Last Post" on my forum's main page never changes, even when synergy updates. Is there a reason for this? Maybe I missed something?

It always says this as Last Post:

1966/67 Yamaha YDS3 250cc...
by yds3guy

You can see it here:
Dating Advice Forums

TIA :-)

Have you tried running the manual cron? For some reason, some forums seem to have this problem and I really don't know how to explain it, but perhaps running the cron will jumpstart it.

- Reid

will this work fine with vbseo?

yes works fine here with the last vbseo 3.1.0, you'll just have to write your own rewriting rules because vbseo does not convert synergy urls by default

Okay, I installed, will test it out.

a little problem here...
in who's online instead of showing viewing index it showing unknown location and the link is /forums/ajax_cron.php?rand=####### plz fix it

One small issue in the synergy forum I created everything works great except that the it seems random in the display instead of the top voted threads and the other issue is when click on Top Threads on the bottom right it errors out to page can not be found. The one below for new threads works just fine.

Great great mod just what I need, thx Zoints!

err... something wrong...all the threads are said disable...

Is this still going to work on 3.7.0 ?
I've submitted a thread on 3.7.0 and have no way of knowing if its been sent !?

Hey TTG,

To be honest, I haven't heard anything about functionality and 3.7.0 (it could of slipped under my radar though. Could you open up a ticket with us so I could try it out? If I can't figure anything out, I'll move it up to the engineers.

- Reid

Ticket submitted .. thanks Reid :up:

Product is licenced with GPL so i can modify it to work ONLY locally, am i right? If not, is there anybody know similar but local one mod?

Hi root,

The intention of Synergy is not for a local community, but for communities together to successively share their content and get more exposure for their threads of interest. There is at least one product here at vbulletin.org (I believe it is only for 3.7+ however) that is a more simple +/- thread and post rating system that is for JUST your forum, I also know of a paid modification that works on 3.6x (if interested, PM me and I'll send you the link.)

Best of luck finding a solution that fits.

- Reid

I'm thinking about installing this product but I'm a little confused as to what Synergy actually is?

Is Synergy a website like Digg?

Where do your posts/links get submitted too?

Thanks :)

Synergy really isn't a website. The content on it might one day be used in such a manner, but it's not that way right now. In concept, in terms of voting for good threads/content, it is similar to DIGG. It differs however in the sense that the content is shared on forums and not on a central site like DIGG. Let's look at a hypothetical situation:

Suppose site A,B, and C have Synergy installed.
A submits a thread to Synergy.
The thread appears on the Synergy forum for all forums apart of Synergy (when you install Synergy, you created one forum for Synergy to reside in), the members from those other forums can then view and read that thread, rate it and possibly join to comment at that site. The strength (or potential strength) lies in the forums. The content remains on your site, to discuss the content the members have to go to your site, Synergy merely acts as a way for the content to be shared between A, B and C... hopefully increasing the guest views all three forums get for their content. So unlike a DIGG, we hope that all forums can see a benefit from Synergy unlike a DIGG submission where they will be increased traffic, but discussion will stay on DIGG.

I hope this helps.

- Reid

Just installed, crashed my forum:

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/synergy.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/init.php(293) : eval()'d code on line 5

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/niggerma/public_html/forum/includes/synergy.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/niggerma/public_html/forum/includes/init.php(293) : eval()'d code on line 5

Hi Tom,

Please submit a support ticket here:
http://zoints.com/support.z

Thanks and sorry about your troubles.

- Reid

I went to the link and poked around, seems that people are having problems with Synergy and Vbulletin 3.7.

If you have 3.7 for God's sake, do not install this mod. It totally crashed my forum, I can't even open the tools.php file to try to fix it.

Not sure what I will do.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and I apologize that you've had this trouble. We are researching this issue, and attempting to determine the cause - it's unclear at this point if it's directly caused by Synergy, a result of a conflict with something unique to your site or simply a case of coincidental corruption. At this point, other users have reported problems with the plugin on 3.7.x, but nobody else has encountered as serious an issue as this.

In any case, I'm adding a warning to this plugin that there are known incompatibilities and that we would advise against attempting to install on 3.7.x forums.

-Paul Kemp
Zoints CC Lead

Can this mod be upgraded for compatibility with the new 3.8 vbulletin???

I sure hope so!!

Thanks Zoints!

Any thoughts???

This ever going to be updated?!?!? I really want this mod updated!! Please consider correcting the problem and updating for 3.8.1!!!!!