[DBTech] vBShout v6 (vB4) [AJAX]
 

DragonByte Technologies are proud to present vBShout v6: The most advanced, Most feature-rich and most professional shoutbox ever.


Uses

vBShout is the ideal way to keep members on your forum while they wait for replies to their posts. It can be used in many ways - as a chat room for members, for staff to discuss issues in realtime, as a live-update feed of new posts and threads, as a way to track member milestones... Best of all, you can have multiple boxes in use for multple purposes!

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We appreciate the support!

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Priority support is handled at the Developers Website.

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Major Lite Features

Advanced Shout Control: You have the ability to post shouts, edit your shouts, PM shouts to other users, Ignore other users, insert /Me commands, insert smilies, Bbcode, change font, text colour etc.

Advanced Staff Control: Give your staff members customised permissions to allow them to do certain actions, on all or selected instances and chat rooms. Permissions include: Silencing users, banning users, editing user shouts, Creating/Editing "Sticky Notices", Pruning shouts and much more.

Resource Optimisation: vBShout implements an Advanced Optimisation Protocol to save your forum resources. Enabling this will further reduce the amount of resources consumed by the shoutbox. AOP was originally featured in Inferno vBShout, and DBTech vBShout takes it to the next level by ensuring that all your chats are always up-to-date without taking up needless amount of resources.

Customisable New Post / Thread Notifications: Allows you to make the shoutbox post when a new thread is created, or a new post is made. You can make this happen with all threads (Which will take user permissions into account) or only threads/posts from certain forums.

Shoutbox Tabs: New PM's or User Chat Rooms create Tabs. Tabs will highlight to let you know something new has happened, and you can even set them to make sounds to alert you.

Active Users Shout-bit: Shows the users active in the tab/instance you are, with the option to view everyone who can enter/exit the room at will (and thus see any shouts posted) in a pop-up to save resources. Perfect for seeing what's going on and who's around at a glance.

Context Menus: Many places now make use of context menus ? less having to remember /commands, one click access to the most useful and commonly used functions, and the ability for users to access their shoutbox settings directly from the shoutbox itself.

Custom Chat Rooms: Your users can now set up their own Chat-Tabs, where they get to set who can come and chat. Perfect for clubs, guilds etc. Admins can also create permanent Chat rooms for specific usergroups etc. ? perfect for a staff only chat room for instance, or to reward loyal members!

Custom Shoutbox Instances: Ever wanted a separate shoutbox just for your admin forum? Got a part of your board only for VIP members? Now you can set a shoutbox specific to those areas.

Shoutbox Sounds: You asked for it, we delivered. Customisable sounds now available on receiving shouts, Invites, PM's and more. (Requires QuickTime Plugin)

Archive: View all the shouts posted since the last pruning, Also shows you the top X shouters, a variety of interesting and useful shoutbox statistics, and allows you to search previous shouts.

Logging: Worried about staff members pruning the shoutbox to cover their tracks? Don't worry, with our advanced logging options, you can make sure a hard copy is kept of every action taken.

Revamped Thread / Reply Notices: Do you have a massive board with 100+ forums? With the revamped New Thread / Reply Notices page, you can edit exactly what forums show what notices in what instance all from one page.

Downloadable Shoutbox Archives: You and your shoutbox admins can download a complete dump of the Shoutbox' archive for all instances. With 3 supported formats (tab-delimited CSV, XML and TXT), there's something for everyone whether your purpose is review or programming.

Easy Shoutbox Notice Editing: You and usergroups with the "Can Set Sticky" permission can now edit the notice by double-clicking the Sticky in the shoutbox. Quickly fix typos or rapidly update with new turn of events, editing it is never more than two clicks away.

Shoutbox Report System: Members can now report offensive shouts by using the shout context menu. When a report has been submitted, those with the "Can Moderate Chat" permission will see how many reports need their attention via a new chat tab in the Shoutbox.

Easy User Infractions: The context menu also adds a quick link to infract users, for those who can access vBulletin's infraction system. This lets you quickly punish members who are overstepping your bounds.

Blog Integration: Give blogs a more prominent place on your forum by having the Shoutbox post notifications when someone posts a new blog or comments on a blog.


Professional Only benefits:

Personal User Shoutbox Options: Integrated with User CP, User gets to decide which things show on their shoutbox, PM's, notifications etc. Even what editor options show up for them. They also get to decide where their text input area goes for TOTAL customisation.

Ignore List: Allows users to keep track of who they are ignoring, and control this option via a list.

Custom Commands: Lets you and your users create their own commands for use. For example, create pre-set warning comments ? Staff member types /firstwarning, Text appears saying "This is your first warning for breaking the shoutbox rules. You can view these rules at [link] If you have a question about this warning, please PM myself. Thanks.

Extra Tab Options: The ability to set separate tabs for system notifications and notices is available in the PRO version, fantastic for keeping your chat tab uncluttered.

Detach Shoutbox: Lets you and your users have the shoutbox open in a seperate browser window/tab for easier use etc.

Additional Moderation Commands: The ability to add/edit the sticky notice through the shoutbox.

Advanced Archive Searching: Ability to search by any combination of username, Last X Hours, Start/End date, as well as keyword. Filter searches, sort by criteria etc.

Extended Instance Options: Allows you to have separate notices per instance, set usergroup settings for individual instances, and even set unique staff permissions for each individual instance.

Expanded Context Menus: Lets your member/staff use the context menu to add/update the sticky note, Ban and Unban users, Ignore/Unignore users and prune individual user shouts.

Extra User Chat Room Moderation: Shows a page displaying every use-created chat room, who made it, how many active members/total members it has etc, and options to close it etc.


Complete Feature List
Lite

• Shoutbox
  • Post Shouts
  • Edit / Delete Shouts
  • Shouts played using HTML5 <audio> tags
  • PM other users
    • PM tabs for convo between two users
  • View Active Users
    • Separate context-aware block that shows the people active in your specific tab.
• Smilies
  • Integrates with vBulletin smilie popup for easy overview of all available smilies.
• Update text styles
  • Bold
  • Italic
  • Underline
  • Font
  • Colour
• Slash commands
  • Built-in commands in a drop-down list
  • /banlist for a list of all users banned from the shoutbox
• Context menu for available actions
  • View Profile
  • Send PM
• Create chat room
  • Invite / Manage users that can access this chat room
  • Inviting an user sends them a pop-up asking them to join the room.
• Tabs
  • Highlights when you're not viewing them but they have new messages.
  • Chat Rooms get tabs added as you join them.
• Logging
  • Default logging logs all administrative slash commands.
• Archive
  • View list of all Shouts in the system
  • Top X Shouters
  • Shoutbox Statistics
  • Search Archive
    • Search by
      • Phrase
• AdminCP
  • Instance Manager
    • Different instances on different pages
  • Chat Room Manager
    • Assign usergroups to chat rooms
  • Edit Settings
    • Which commands to log
    • Log level
    • Shouts to display
    • Shouts to display (Archive)
    • Shoutbox Height
    • Shout display order
    • Shoutbox Refresh Rate
    • Smilies on / off
    • PMs on / off
    • Allowed BBCode controls
    • Enabled Editor Tools
    • Maximum [SIZE]
    • Max characters per shout
    • Max images per shout
    • Archive "Top X Shouters" count
    • Active Users block on/off
    • Auto-Delete Shouts
    • Max chat rooms per user
    • Global sound switch
    • Play sounds while idle
    • Per-Usergroup display of moderator actions (like pruning shouts)
    • Ability to disable the "Chat Access" list
    • Project Tools integration
    • Ability to disable Blog notifications
    • Alternating Shout Background Colours
    • Forum Milestones (replacing the simple "Post Markers")
      • Every X Posts
      • Every X Threads
      • Every X Members
  • Show command log
  • Show banned users
  • Show shout log
  • Maintenance
    • Reset all style customisations
  • Ban / Silence management in Edit User

Shoutbox Sessions

• Shoutbox activity is tracked separate from users' shouts
• Only shows people who perform an action as active
• "Active Indicator" on the toolbar shows whether the user is active in the SB or not
• Doesn't flag users generating automatic notices as active

Anonym.To Integration

• Ability to anonymise any URL entered in the Shoutbox per-instance with Anonym.to
• Works with BBCode URLs
• Displays regular URL while editing shouts

Disallow "ALL CAPS"

• Ability to disallow all caps per-instance
• Uses vBulletin's "Prevent SHOUTING" setting to de-caps the shout

New Slash Command: /resetshouts

• Resets all users' "Lifetime Shouts" counter to how many shouts they currently have in the system
• (Pro) /resetshouts user to reset an individual user's "Lifetime Shouts" counter
• Great way to put spammers in their place

Context Menu Improvements

• Dedicated context menu item for editing shouts (if user has permission to edit that shout)
• Dedicated context menu item for deleting shouts (if user has permission to delete that shout)
• JavaScript performance for menu closure operations has been improved

"Invisibility" Toggle

• Click the activity status icon to toggle invisibility
• Uses the status icon from your vBulletin skin
• Hides the user from all activity displays in the entire instance
• Great for surprising friends with shouts out of the blue!

Pro

• Context Menu Options
• Moderation actions
  • Add / Update Sticky Note
  • Ban / Unban users
  • Ignore / unignore users
  • Prune user's shouts
• Slash commands
  • /silencelist for a list of all users silenced in the shoutbox
• Separate tab for Notifications
  • Lets you hide them from the main view but still have them accessible.
• Separate tab for System Messages
  • Lets you hide them from main view but still have them accessible.
• Detach shoutbox
  • Shows a dedicated shoutbox browser window.
• Shoutbox Options
  • Integration with UserCP
    • General Shoutbox Settings
      • Enable / Disable PMs
      • Enable / Disable Notifications
      • Enable / Disable System Messages
      • Override shout styles
      • Sounds on/off
        • Shout
        • Invite
        • PM
      • Hide alternating shoutbox background colours
      • Hide user avatars
    • Display Settings
      • Hide/Display individual Editor settings (Font, text colour etc)
      • Control shout area location
    • Tab Reordering
      • Re-order chat tabs
• Custom Commands
  • Add / Edit custom commands
• Ignore List
  • Add / Remove users
• High-level logging logs everything
• vBActivity & Awards integration (Award, Achievement, Promotion)
• Filter archive shouts by chatroom
• Create threads from archive shouts
• Search Archive
  • Search by
    • Username
    • Last X Hours
    • Start Date
    • End Date
  • Sort order for search results
  • Shouts per page
• Filter archive shouts
• Edit/Delete shouts in archive
• Separate Sticky notices per instance
• Separate usergroup permissions per instance
• Assign chat room to any / all instance(s)
• Shoutbox Refresh Rate
  • While idle
• PMs on / off
• Archive "Top X Shouters" count
• Play sounds while idle
• Maintenance
  • Reset all style customisations
• Ban / Silence management in Edit User
• Forum Milestones (replacing the simple "Post Markers")
  • Every X Blogs
  • Every X Shouts
  • Every X [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like button clicks received
  • Every X [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging thread tags received
  • Every X [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging quotes received
  • Every X [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging mentions received
  • Every X [DBTech] vBQuiz quizzed created
  • Every X [DBTech] vBQuiz quizzed completed
• Adjust time stamp format
• Per-Usergroup "Can PM" permission

(Pro) Global Custom Commands

• Create custom commands that anyone can use via the AdminCP
• Prevents users from creating commands with the same shortcut
• Great for "canned responses"

(Pro) Per-User Shoutbox Toggle

• New UserCP option to turn off the entire shoutbox
• Hides it completely from all pages

(Pro) Per-Instance Activity Triggers

• Choose what actions trigger new activity
  • Create Chat
  • Delete Shout
  • Fetch Sticky
  • Join Chat
  • Leave Chat
  • User Lookup
  • Save Sound Settings
  • Save Shout Styles
  • User Management
  • Chat Tab Switching
  • Un-idling
  • Toggle "Invisible Mode"

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Nice hack thank you!

How much ressources does this hack need?

It depends on the size of your memberbase, and what kind of server you are running on.

There are options to scale the shoutbox depending on your server etc (you can increase/decrease the refresh time etc)

This should be the least resource intensive of any AJAX shoutbox though =)

Iain

Using another shoutbox that I'm basically happy with now, but... I like features and this appears to have them. Gonna check this out. =)

Thanks Trek, We always aim to have as many features as possible, and update with any features our customers want/need =)

Iain

One thing I noticed (from your site) that I'd like to see changed is so that all shout text is aligned with each other. So it's basically in a straight clean column.

I had bought the last Inferno Pro, does that mean I get this one? coz I felt ripped off when the last one disappeared.

At least it is nice to see a decent shoutbox back for now.

That would require a table, and very long usernames would push the shouts way over, meaning they could look very crushed.

It's something we could probably add in future to the pro version if it was requested though, but not something we'd be making a default feature =)

Iain

Unfortunately no, this isn't the same company (Scot/Zero Tolerance isn't involved with this company.

It would be unfair to Fillip for him to have to pay for ZT's actions.

If you are a former Inferno Tech customer though, and you can supply me with proof of purchase on DBTech, i will give you a 25% discount (I just won't take my cut from those sales)

I hope that at least goes some way to mitigating what happened with I-Tech. Even though i was left in the lurch as much as (or more than) the customers, I would still like to try to make amends.

Iain

Other placements would be nice :)

I briefly looked into that, but it appeared that vBulletin has gotten rid of a lot of useful template hooks :(

I'll have another look once things have calmed down some as far as updates and bugs are concerned, though :)


Fillip

installed but i have problems.....

see attachment for it.

Thank's

That's really weird, did you try Ctrl+F5? A different browser?


Fillip

I use Mozilla, but i have users with IE and have the same problem...

Could you link me to your website please? I'll take a look and see if I can figure it out.

Fillip

can you compare this liht version with pro version ?

We're not allowed to do that here, but there is a full comparison on our webpage =)

Iain

i found pro feature list at ur page, but did not found the comparison chart.

Oops, sorry about that. Seems the seperated list wasn't posted. Should be fixed now =)

I'll give the light version a go, and if my members are happy I may go for the pro with that 25% off offer (Just hope we don't get left in the dark again).

This is what it looks like on my site:
http://www.buy-host.com/forums/shoutbox.jpg
or direct link: http://www.buy-host.com/forums/shoutbox.jpg

site: www.buy-host.com/forums

As you can see the box where you type in, is squished (I am on VB 4.0.2pl1 and using FF)

I would also like to know how to move that box so it is under neat the shouts instead of beside.

the same problem that me.. ha ha ha ha.

and when you type several comments, they are not contained within the shoutbox lol, they just keep going down over your forum content o_O

I had this same issue it resolved itself but I believe its due to the local cache on the server side. Clear your server side cache and it may fix it.

yeah gave that a try, didn't work yet.

I also noticed that my FireFox has been crashing when viewing dragonbyte site with the shoutbox or my site with the shoutbox on it. Maybe some kind of leak or something?

Fillip will check into your box squishy problem when he gets up, As for the FF problem, what version are you using?

I believe there may be an issue with 5.5.8 or something similar because of an issue in FF. Can you try updating to the latest version and see if you still have the problem?

In regards to the text input position, we plan on making it optional for left hand alignment, or bottom alignment in the next version =)

Iain

The squishy shoutbox issue has been identified, and a fix will be uploaded very soon, along with a fix for anyone who's having problems getting the shoutbox to show properly.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

As for the browser crashing issue, Firefox v3.5.x had major issues with JavaScript and Flash, and the JavaScript bugs could cause it to crash. I strongly recommend upgrading to 3.6 or newer, which seems to be free of these issues.
It's extremely difficult for me to fix this because I have no way of knowing what causes it, I can't read Firefox crash logs :P

Fillip

Hi i cannot get this to display where is admin help located ? i have the mod enabled and set to on

what hook do i need to add to the forum home or navbar template please

I was thinking about purchasing pro

There's a good chance you've been caught in the bug that I'm about to fix, hold on for just a little while longer and we can see if it's fixed for you :)

Nevermind, been reading the other replies and see that there's a problem with it not displaying for some people. :)

Hi GrossKopf read the post above yours

thanks fixed now

Can I change the default color of the text? The box where you type is black with my forum style.

Also, with IE 7 (Have to use it at work - no choice), if I select the text color box, the color options show up at first, but when I go to click on a color, the box shrinks. I know that IE 7 is old and a fix isn't a priority, but I thought I'd mention it.

See the attachements to understand what I'm talking about.

*EDIT* Can we have an option to make different colors for each letter? Right now the color selection changes all the text? So we can have words like this.

I didn't even think of that D: My apologies.
For now, edit /dbtech/vbshout/includes/libs/shoutbox.php on line 1537.
This will be fixed in the next version, it should use the same default colour as the rest of the forum.

Does this also happen with the vBulletin colour picker in the postbit?

That's a bit difficult to do, if not impossible, considering a shout can have varying amounts of characters.


Fillip

No, it doesn't.

Thank's for the upgrade... now the box of chat is ok but the "Choose what events produce a Notice for an user in the shoutbox." not work for me, whem un user make a thread or reply it not show in the shoutbox.

i tried to upgrade my vbshout, and now it's gone.. all usergroups are set and templates... :-s

did i missed something?

You need to also enable it in the Forum Manager for the forums you want to produce these notifications for.
I'll add a note about this.

Check your settings? Check to see the product is still installed? if nothing else, try uninstalling it and reinstalling it.


Fillip

Ok, thank's. already see it in forums manager.......

4.0.2 has been released, which attempts to fix the Colour Picker in IE7 as well as removing the default Text Colour in shouts.

Additionally, the first new feature has been added: The Shoutbox frame is now collapsible!

Fillip