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As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by redlabour

Clicked uninstalled so far.

Originally Posted by mad@Max

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

Do you really think posting things like "click uninstall" will encourage people to listen to you ?

Sometimes wonder why I (or anyone else) bothers to dedicate our FREE time to releasing things at all. This does exactly what I need it to do for my forums, like everything else I release, its written for me, and then kindly released for anyone else who may want to use it. If it doesnt suit your needs then fine, just dont bother with it, do not come in here moaning & complaining.

[redlabour]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Do you really think posting things like "click uninstall" will encourage people to listen to you ?

If you are not interested in "Installationclicks" why do you wrote this?

Please remember to click Mark as Installed if you use this modification.

Originally Posted by Paul M

If it doesnt suit your needs then fine, just dont bother with it, do not come in here moaning & complaining.

1. Can you tell me why you did modifying it for your forum if Xenons-Mod still works and have more Features like yours?

2. Can you tell me why you call it a "Update"?

3. Can you tell me why you call it "Supported"?

Do what you want - but don?t call it Update of a perfect working MOD if it isn?t a Update. And please don?t call it supported or anything like that if you cant get around with critic to your work.

[Blackhat]

excellent plugin

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by redlabour

If you are not interested in "Installationclicks" why do you wrote this?

The question has no relevance to what I posted.

Originally Posted by redlabour

1. Can you tell me why you did modifying it for your forum if Xenons-Mod still works and have more Features like yours?

2. Can you tell me why you call it a "Update"?

3. Can you tell me why you call it "Supported"?

Do what you want - but don?t call it Update of a perfect working MOD if it isn?t a Update. And please don?t call it supported or anything like that if you cant get around with critic to your work.

1. Ajax merging does not work.
2. Um, because it is.
3. See answer to 2.

Its an update, simple as that, just becasue it doesnt do what you want doesnt mean its not an update. Its also supported (as is) - again, just because I wont do what you want doesnt make it unsupported.

Dont bother replying in the thread, this is not a discussion thread. Clearly this mod is not for you so leave this thread for those who are using it.

[gen4ik]

nice mod ... but 2 issues: with compressed JS and translating unphrased text "Post added at" and "Previous post was" ....

[Daniel_HBK]

thx

[IIAnDoII]

this is a much better version that Xenons, The Post Separator in Xenons looks cheap you did a great job Paul keep it up mate

[Voltar]

Awesome to see this updated! Tagged, will install later.

[Hannan]

That's great, I've waiting for this
thanks

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by gen4ik

nice mod ... but 2 issues: with compressed JS and translating unphrased text "Post added at" and "Previous post was" ....

Compressed JS is not an issue, you simply download the uncompressed version. I agree about the phrasing tho, Im testing an update atm (phrased), for release later in the week.