istalld

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

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


Fillip

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

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...

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/showthrea...ighlight=image

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:

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?

Can I edit the font size as well?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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

So would you suggest a solution?

So how do I increase this cutoff limit?

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 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.

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.

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.

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 [B] and the last 4 are [/B], 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

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

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?

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:

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

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


Fillip

fixed

Add directly beneath <?php in your config.php file.


Fillip

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

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

Does this replace the "Activity" tab?

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?

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

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

Fillip

Are there any examples of this mod in action?

What kind of load does it put on a server?

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

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?

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

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

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.

www.dbtech.co/livewall.php :)

Try putting directly beneath in your config.php file :)


Fillip

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? ;)

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

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


Fillip

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

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


Fillip

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

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


Fillip

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