What really irks me about all this is that when i was on VB4 for 10 years, Dragonbyte just sucked the money out of me for these plugins, literally thousands of dollars. I bought almost every product they had. Now they won't support me moving to VB5. So much profit from vbulletin then they just abandon us. Sure it would more convenient for them only to build for xenforo or whatever. What about your good customers?????

In the end I think VB5 is better than VB4 and has many better features, and familiar ones, than other forum software. Not as many plugins are needed because of the flexibility to develop or customize the VB5 platform.

I don't understand them constantly blaming Internet Brands for their own decisions.
Possibly they jumped in too quickly with VB5 plugins it looks like to me.
It is possible Internet brands bit off more than they could chew on the VB5 functionality.
But now it is mostly ironed out VB5 is very well rounded now without the errors at the beginning.

I think many more people are on VB5 than they think.
Many point to the number of plugins on this forum as a gauge to how many users there are.
They don't mention what VB5 has built in that eliminates the need for many old plugins.

I have two VB5 forums and may start a third. I would gladly buy 3 copies of shout box if it was updated. Plus all their other products. But now I am in the basket of VB5 deplorables.
I'm not clear why Dragonbyte didn't reach out to it's good users to gauge their future intentions?

I am new to VB5 and installed this shoutbox yesterday. It shows everywhere but not on the home/mainpage. Also it does not do smilies eventhough the smilies option is check off in acp in the settings for the shoutbox?

Is everyone having that problem or am I doing something wrong?

Is there any other shoutbox out there?

I have mine set so that it appears ONLY on the homepage. Works fine on several vb5 forums of mine.

1) As far as Emojis, how exactly are you posting the Emojis within the Shoutbox? When I try to post one via say the Control Command Space of a MacBook Pro, the actual symbol is transformed into the word Emoji in Shoutbox.

But then, if I try to post a Mac emoji within a regular post at vb5, it does not appear at all.

2) Then I tried a second test, I put a vb5 emoji into a vb5 post, of course it appeared, but then I copied it.
I WAS able to paste the emoji into a subsequent vb5 post, but when I tried to post the emoji into shoutbox, nothing happened - would not post.

Yes I have always had smilies enabled for my shoutbox but I have never seen one in any of my chats, maybe this feature hasn't worked in a while.

I did just notice that it was only after increasing max_input_vars in php / cpanel to 10000, was I even able to save and utilize an option like Alternating Colors.

Okay I did some further testing. I couldn't tell you why, but on my test forum emojis do not work, but in my actual forum, same server, same settings, same directory/domain, MacBook Pro emojis appear fine and work fine within the shoutbox.

My vBShout has gone invisible in my upgrade to vB v5.6.2. The modules are still there

Any idea on how to make it visible again?

Drucifer, do you mean that the forum shows "Working"
https://imgur.com/OhxYc9K
at all times, as if the shout box is trying to load, and that the shouts do not appear in the shout box, because I am experiencing the same across all of my vb5 forums starting just very recently.

The shout box is there but it is empty.

In one of my forums, where I am logged in, it flags me as idle,
https://imgur.com/ZXFPTnO

and in the ones where I am not logged in it looks like this:
https://imgur.com/PeOMIOG

What is strange is that I have done nothing to the forum as far as changes of settings lately. It WAS working on vb 5.6.2 for a while, then just stopped very recently.
Max_input_vars are set to 10000 across the board.

What this means is that the shout box is unable to load. Not sure if it has to do with vb 5.6.2 or some server settings.

Within Chrome browser developer tools, I see that it is trying to Fetch the shouts from
/core/packages/dbtechvbshout/js/core.js
and is unable.

VBShout is completely missing from the screen as if it wasn't installed.

That's something different. I don't know what is causing that at your end.

The issue I describe is simply that it is unable to load the shouts, although the shoutbox itself is there, specifically, it is trying to Fetch from
/core/packages/dbtechvbshout/js/core.js
and unable.

In your case you might want to look closely at all the files you deleted when you upgraded to vb 5.6.2 Perhaps you deleted one or more related to dbtechvbshout by mistake.

I looked at my . . . . core/packages/dbtechvbshout/js/core.js and the dbtechvbshout sub-folder is missing.

What exactly is missing? I am comparing a fresh download of this software from this thread with what is up there in my server and not noticing any difference yet.

At your end, maybe you deleted something related to DragonByte software when you did the upgrade to 5.6.2 - as you know every time we upgrade vbulletin the upgrade software prompts us to delete a number of files and directories that no longer are required in the upgraded version. Within that list are many pieces that are not "expected" to be part of vbulletin - because they are not! they belong to third party apps, like vbshout. Those pieces must be maintained notwithstanding the warnings.

As far as the issue at my end the only thing we changed recently, other than the upgrade to vb 5.6.2, was lowering the innodb buffer pool size from 4Gb to 2.5Gb (MySQL buffer pool setting). I am going to set it back to 4Gb and see if that makes a difference. We lowered it five days ago, but actually recall the shoutbox working even since then - it seems to have just stopped working two days ago. As far as the vb 5.6.2 upgrade, I did that three weeks ago so I don't think the issue at my end has to do with the vb 5.6.2 upgrade, as I am pretty sure shoutbox was working until very recently.

If anyone may get this working on 5.6.2 then we will know that 5.6.2 is not the issue.