Miscellaneous Hacks - Live Topic

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Live Demo:

Live Topic 1.07b Demo (you must be logged in, and the topic must be "live")

Videos: 1.00b 1.06b

watch the damn videos... ^_^

Description:

This product is different from anything you have seen before, it raises the bar for forums. It will make your forums much more interactive, and also reduce server load.

Technical Details:

If a thread has been posted in X seconds then its now Live, if other users are viewing the Live topic and are on the last page they will experience a clean ajax experience while talking to other members. Once the thread is older than X seconds its no longer Live and it will now act like a normal thread. Also if a user edits one of their posts that's inside of the thread, it will be updated too so there is no longer a reason to ever have to refresh.

There is also logic for the viewer, the viewer of the thread has to be in an active state to see responses. An active user state is determined upon the users actions, if no actions were made in X seconds then the user is marked as inactive.

Also you may wonder why this could save your server bandwidth and CPU. If a user is refreshing to talk to another members the queries on a normal thread load are way more intense than the ajax call that this modification makes. So if you have 5 people talking to each other none of them have to refresh the page, all they are doing is simple page requests and one intense request when there has actual change.

You can test Live Topic with two users, you will see how amaizing this is... And probably spontaneously combust.

Found a bug? Want to request a feature?

Live Topic - Project Manager

Installation:

This is take less than 3 minutes to install, takes longer to notice its amazing feature. (you need multiple people to be active in the same topic)

Upgrade:

[1.01b to 1.XXb] Uninstall the product, then reinstall it. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

[1.02b to 1.03b] Overwrite files, upgrade product (dont install product)

[1.03b to 1.04b] Uninstall the product, then reinstall it. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

[1.04b to 1.05b, 1.05b to 1.06b,1.06b to 1.07b] Upgrade the product. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

Works With (FF2, FF3, IE6, IE7, IE8, SF2, SF3, CHROME):

vBulletin [3.8.X]

get the vBulletin [3.7.X] version here

INCOMPATIBLE HACKS:

• USC
• PassiveVid (1.x)
• gXboxLive
• Topic (incl. Blog) of the Week
• Marquee Text

Versions:

1.01b
1.02b

fixes

safari 2 support
safari 3 support
google chrome support
added live topic icon on new posts page
fixed security issue, strongly suggest upgrading!

changes

added live edit (to avoid a performance hit i had to add two rows to two tables in the database)
added external style sheet

1.03b

fixes

fix double post
phrase notification
fixed an edit bug for people with table prefixes

changes

ability to change interval in ACP

1.04b

fixes

javascript error for guests
fixed live topic activation (first poster to raise a dead topic)

changes

auto quick reply focus after post

1.05b

fixes

css flaw
js error for unsupported browsers (random)
fixed chrome issue

changes

edit notification - thanks to nso
rebuilding some of the original logic to hopefully prevent product conflicts

1.06b

fixes

fixed a little javascript issue that had to do with displaying posts
uses GPC cleaner now

changes

limit the number of ajax posts on the live topic (example 40) and fade them away.
changed the way the hooks are used
tightened up everything a bit

1.07b

fixes

fixed a bug where the live topic notification always making an ajax call

changes

support user ignore list
changed the way the javascript logic worked (hopefully there are less compatibly issues) added support for IE6 and IE8

1.10

hmm

{Mark As Installed}

{Don't forget to vote for Modification of the Month}

[T5il]

Thank you very much

[coffee]

Installed, Thank you ..

Wish list:
- Option for selected forums for this to work with.
- Option for visitor/group/album messages.

[arcadian_girl]

Just an idea (I haven't read this whole topic so pls don't shoot me if this has been suggested already) - how about when you're on the forum index, next to each forum name it tells you how many live topics are currently in each forum? That way ppl looking to have conversation wont have to click all over the forum trying to find threads that are currently live. Just an idea

[smnet]

anyone have any alternative live topic icons? Just wondering.

VERY nice mod!!!

[smnet]

Originally Posted by DISLEX

On larger threads... I think once we reach like 160-170 posts, you can no longer see your own post when you do a quick reply. Other people's post show up, and your post gets posted in the thread, but LT is doing something that is causing it to not actually show up on your own screen after you post. You have to refresh to see your own

I can confirm this bug....

It is happening pretty randomly but always involves threads that have more than 5 pages....

Can anyone else confirm this? It only seems to happen also once you sat in a thread for a while replying.

[Charles_1]

Since v1.0.7b it stopped working in our forum :-(. Earlier versions were working correctly (except too high load for our server). In forum it shows picture of live topic (so it means that mod is really enabled), but new posts are not appearing in threads, only after refresh of page. When I enable this mod, IE7 shows in every thread in Status Bar message "Error on page." Details are:

Line: 4910
Char: 148
Error: Unterminated string constant
Code: 0
URL: just URL of specific showthread.php page

In showthread.php line 4910 is last line of whole file where is only: ?>
When I disable mod, error message disappear. Any ideas to solve this issue please? vBulletin v3.8.2 (v3.8.1 was the same issue).

[smnet]

BUG REPORT

Your own posts will dissapear.... please can people test this and confirm so the author can fix this.

steps to reproduce:-

set your live posts per page to ten more than you show normally on thread pages. Eg. vB setting per page = 20..... live thread posts per page = 30.

Post a NEW thread.... get some other people in there too and just keep replying (DO NOT LEAVE THE PAGE). Once your screen overflows at 30 posts, you will see that your own replies do not show up at all - everyone else can see them and you can see other peoples, but you cant see new ones made by you.

Using the settings above this will happen at around post #32.

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Can others please confirm this bug???

Thanks

Rob

[Lynne]

He has a site to post bug reports at - http://scriptasy.com/project.php?projectid=5

[smnet]

no offence, but why should i be FORCED to register

[Lynne]

You aren't forced to register and file a bug report, just like he isn't forced to fix the bug.