[DavidsMods] vBLive Lite - Global User Statuses and Site Stream!
 

vBLive
DavidsMods is proud to present vBLive. Bring your forum alive with Facebook like status updates and a live stream of site activity! This mod boosts user activity by providing live updates of user activity in a convenient area along with the ability to update their thoughts globally throughout your forum

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Further information and priority support can be found at http://www.davidsmods.com

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Features (Pro & Lite)

• Lite
  • Global user status updates.
  • User status display in user profiles.
  • User status display in user postbits.
  • User status updates posted to site stream.
  • New threads posted to the site stream.
  • Forum block which display latest X streams.
  • Automatic refreshing of the site stream.
  • Option to set maximum amount of characters allowed for statuses.
  • Option to set which forums new thread/reply streams should be allowed in.
  • Option to set the refresh rate of the site stream.
• Pro
  • New registrations posted to the site stream.
  • New thread replies posted to the site stream.
  • New friends posted to the site stream.
  • New calendar events posted to the site stream.
  • New CMS comments posted to the site stream.
  • New calendar events posted to the site stream.
  • New private messages posted to the personal site stream.

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Copyright
Small linkback to DavidsMods.com may be added to footer.

Thanks alot good mod

any screens for admin options? Usergroup otions? can you disable status as i have another mod doing that and just have the stream?

tagged and will go pro for sure..

@simonhind.. since you prefer the other one, please stop posting in this thread .. your not welcome .. thanks

Hey,

Not many admin options at the moment. The next version (released in a few days hopefully) will contain options to allow usergroups to update status, ban certain users, limit characters per status amongst other things.

I hope this answers your question!

- David

Will the stream with the new threads and posts only work on a separate page?
I would like to have it as a collapsable box on forumhome. Would that be possible?

That certainly is very possible! I will look into it! :)

- David

is it possible to (easily) move / extend the input box?

Might even be better as a forum block ;) Just another suggestion :D

You can increase it's size by opening the dmods_live_statusbox_small template and replacing size="6" to something like size="12".

Hope this helps! :)

Indeed! :D


- David

+1 :)

I just installed this mod on VB version 4.1.8, but the Stream and Status does not update.

If I enter something in Status on top, it still says "user has no status", and nothing happens in the Live Stream even if someone is posting threads/posts.

Do I have to upgrade to 4.1.10 to have this mod working?

The streams for threads/posts are currently Pro only but these probably will be moved to Lite in a future Beta version.

As for the status issue, could you PM me a link and test account for your site so I can investigate? :)

- David

can the location of the box be changed?

Not at the moment. I'll see if I can add a method of manually moving the location for a future version!

- David

thanks.

Interesting concept and I like it. I've tagged it to keep an eye on it as you go through Beta.

Nice work.

Thanks for your help. The mod is now working, but experiencing a small problem with UTF-8 characters.

When using a utf-8 character in status box it shows correctly in the postbit, but when refreshing a page, the utf-8 character in the postbit turns into a strange symbol.

fått becomes f�tt

I'll get this fixed for you! :)

- David

Thank you very much! :)

- David

Others already basically told you off but I want to do the same, appreciate the mod!

Great mod man, glad to see you offering some differences and the more the merrier!

Installed on my test board to play around with...

Thank you for the kind words! :)

- David

It would be an amazing feature if you can get it to somehow display peoples messages on a forum block. So the messages gets displayed in the forum homepage.

It is planned :)

- David

Nice will install

Very good Davids.. you have a pvt message, please read it.

Exactly the same thing on my 4.1.0 pl2. Does this even work on ealrier 4.1 versions?

I have nothing showing apart from the stream message (thats in the wrong place in my header)

Says 4.1.10, probably time for you to upgrade.

I have 4.1.10 and it looks as though the mods doesn't work on my site. I think it might be conflicting with a similar facebook mod, but it's hard to say.

The worse part of this mod there is no info anywhere on what should be going on with this mod. There is instructions on how to install it but it all stops there. It shows above "Further information and priority support can be found at http://www.davidsmods.com" but here again there is absolutely nothing to be found there either.

After installing this I searched everywhere in the admincp and the only thing I could find is in settings/options/DavidsMods:Live. On the top of my forum page it shows "Status...". Not sure what it means but it never updates regardless of what kind of activity that goes on on my website. There is a Tab that appears in my Navbar without the option to disable it. When the the Stream Tab is selected it opens up to a empty page. Refresh Stream and again nothing happens. As for where else this mod appears or is suppose to appear, or anything about it I'm clueless. I have no idea how there can be a Pro version when the Lite version has issues or the time taken to inform users on how it works. Sorry if anyone reads this as being negative but I've always had a hard time understanding why some can't be descriptive with their hard work. I guess if we all were mind readers we'd be ok in situations like this.

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I been running boards for years and i always wait for obvious reasons

It aint the upgrade

its simply not working

Ok have fun with 4.1.0.

so whats the minimum 4 version this will work on? as for the issues, I thought a beta release was for uses to test and report issues to the author so they can be fixed :confused:

Hey everyone,

I'll hopefully have an update tomorrow that should fix the issue people are having with version incompatibilities! :)

- David

Hey,

I've just uploaded a fix that I believe should fix the issues people have been having with version compatibilities. Just re-upload the files and re-import the product XML to update!

- David

Tagged and will wait to download and install as I hope you will consider making this a forum and cms block as I think this is where it will be most effective. Great job so far none the less.

That should be ready shortly! :) I anticipate by the end of the night!

- David

Updated to 1.1.0!

Changes:
- Now fully phrased.
- Added forum block which displays latest streams on forum home.

- David

Great work David, well done! Have you considered adding the following actions:

New calendar entries.
New blog posts and comments.
New albums, pictures, and comments.
New group threads and replies.
New vbSEO likes.
New friends.
New member profile comments.
New polls and votes.
New stick / unstick threads.

And the ability to filter by action, or by friend / not friend.

That is certainly there direction I see the mod going. I definitely want to add more stream items! :)

- David