New Posting Features - Doublepost Prevention

As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

This is an updated version of the popular modification, previously released by Xenon. It is released with his kind permission.

Basically, if member posts in a thread where they were the previous last poster, then if the conditions are met, their new post will be auto-merged into the previous post instead of creating a new "double" post.

A number of options are provided ;

Time Limit - if more than xxx minutes have passed since the last post, no merge is done.

Timestamp Spacer - if enabled, a timestamped spacer is added between the old post text and the new post text.

Post Timestamp Update - if enabled the newly merged post will have its post time updated to the new time, otherwise it retains the time of the original post.

Spacer Colour - allows you to set the colour of the spacer between merged posts.

Usergroup exceptions - Allows you to exempt certain usergroups from the doublepost merges.

Forum exceptions - Allows you to exempt certain forums form the doublepost merges.

All settings are located in vBulletin Options > Doublepost Prevention.


To install just unzip the XML and import into vB using the ACP Product Manager.


History:

v3.8.001 : First Release for vB 3.8.
v3.8.002 : Phrased the post separater.
v3.8.003 : Added JS Template - removing need to edit quick reply javascript file.
v3.8.004 : Updated spacer options.
v3.8.005 : Updated timestamp spacer to fix issue with large merge times.

[mad@Max]

Nice work! But what about time zones? All see one time zone?

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by mad@Max

Nice work! But what about time zones? All see one time zone?

Well, since the time is manually edited into the post, everybody will see 1 time zone because the text remains constant between time zones.

[mad@Max]

King Kovifor, but its not good

[Vitaly]

Heh... seems we've done similar products simultaneousely . My one doesn't need JS edits, works with AJAX and merge attachments too. Will release it in a week. It was done for 3.7 and was not tested for 3.8 yet.

[Paul M]

Good for you. I hope people are grateful.

I think some members forget that things here are released free and wont always do exactly what they want.

[Raug]

Originally Posted by Magnumutz

Dude, i just downloaded 3.8.1 from the vBulletin Member's Area, and the code is not there.
vBulletin gets downloaded with uncompressed js's by default, right?

No. You get compressed by default. You have to redownload it as uncompressed and then make the edit.

And it seems that clearing your cache and then testing it again will make it so 2 posts don't show up with quick reply.

[Rat1972]

The code is there. I had strange problems with finding that, i downloaded the uncompressed one's but after three times downloading, then it was fine. So the problem was offcourse here. Sorry Paul and i really understand you getting sick of it.

But for people that can't find the code do this:

- Go to vbullletin.com.
- Go to members area
- Go to download vbulletin
- Choose more download options.
- Go to the dropdown: DOWNLOAD FILE
- Choose package - uncompressed javascripts and download it
- Unrar/unzip the downloaded file
- Go to clientscript and open the vbulletin_quick_reply with word/notepad and find the code. Edit it and upload it to your server.

Thats all. And if there still people with problems, its no problem for me to send you the edited file to you, so only you have to upload it to your server. Just send me a pm.

@PaulM
Thank you for this great mod! Keep up the good work!

[redlabour]

Feature Request of Missing Functions that are allready there in Xenons:

Post Separator

Edited By Message

Post added at -> phrased

Previous post was at -> phrased

Clicked uninstalled so far.

[mad@Max]

redlabour, i agree with you, so, too, click uninstall.

[redlabour]

@Paul M - don?t misunderstand me. The Fileedit is one thing - but the other Things are must haves.

This is an updated version of the popular modification

At this Time it is an downgraded version of the popular modification. And Xenons still does work with 3.8.x so there is no need to crossgrade to yours with less Features, less Phrases and one additionally Fileedit of the uncompressed vBulletin Files.

Originally Posted by Vitaly

Heh... seems we've done similar products simultaneousely . My one doesn't need JS edits, works with AJAX and merge attachments too. Will release it in a week. It was done for 3.7 and was not tested for 3.8 yet.

Hopefully it will be released soon and includes alle Features of Xenons.

Originally Posted by Paul M

I think some members forget that things here are released free and wont always do exactly what they want.

No - that is not the Point. We only want Quality - not Quantity. Freesoftware does not mean that there has to be no Qualitycheck before releasing.