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}

[Coders Shack]

I'm going to try to push 1.02b by tonight (and possibly tackle this issue you guys are having)

[Dustin_a31]

I will be watching this one until it comes out of beta. Very interested in this mod!

[blind-eddie]

Awesome!!

Would we have any issues if, lets say, 10 members post at once on same thread?

With the way your vid shows this to work, if 10 members post at the same time, the page would trip out a lil, wouldn't it?

[nascartr]

Any chance that we could get the 'Live Topic' image to show up on the search results page such as the new posts page? I just noticed the image when viewing a forum. Alot of my users just look at posts from the new posts search results page so they may not know that it's live.

[Coders Shack]

Originally Posted by nascartr

Any chance that we could get the 'Live Topic' image to show up on the search results page such as the new posts page? I just noticed the image when viewing a forum. Alot of my users just look at posts from the new posts search results page so they may not know that it's live.

1.02b will have this

Originally Posted by blind-eddie

Awesome!!

Would we have any issues if, lets say, 10 members post at once on same thread?

With the way your vid shows this to work, if 10 members post at the same time, the page would trip out a lil, wouldn't it?

Well you have to remember the purpose of this is not to create a chatroom... Its to bring the forum experience to the next level. Think of the thread you have with 10 people with out this mod, wouldn't that trip out a little? If you asking if the page couldn't handle it (it can). I have had a topic with 8 people in it, and the experience was fine. So much better than refreshing.

[ray-]

Wow, awesome mod. I'll install it as soon as 3.8 final has been released.
If I'm not mistaken, a topic is tagged 'live' depending on it's creation time.
Would it be possible to tag it depending on the time of the last reply? No idea how intensive this process is and if my server would like it when every topic is being tagged as live for x minutes, but I have for instance a slowchat-topic where people enter random crap. The topic has been created a while ago, but it's been excessively used. Would be a shame if the mod isn't being put to use in such a topic.

[Coders Shack]

Originally Posted by ray-

Wow, awesome mod. I'll install it as soon as 3.8 final has been released.
If I'm not mistaken, a topic is tagged 'live' depending on it's creation time.
Would it be possible to tag it depending on the time of the last reply? No idea how intensive this process is and if my server would like it when every topic is being tagged as live for x minutes, but I have for instance a slowchat-topic where people enter random crap. The topic has been created a while ago, but it's been excessively used. Would be a shame if the mod isn't being put to use in such a topic.

no its based on last reply

there's a few failsafes to keep server load fine.

+ user needs to be on last page
+ topic needs to be recently posted in
+ user needs to actually be active on the page and not idle

[ray-]

Ok, my mistake then.
I'll install 3.8 tomorrow then and install this mod right after it. Nominated!

[logicuk]

Hi chad i just watched the video

amazing!!!! can you make this work for vb 3.7? if so i will make a nice donation and nominate for MOTM

There is no way of me upgrading to vb 3.8 my forum is customized to hell and im holding off until vb4 and sphinx search

[Coders Shack]

Originally Posted by logicuk

Hi chad i just watched the video

amazing!!!! can you make this work for vb 3.7? if so i will make a nice donation and nominate for MOTM

There is no way of me upgrading to vb 3.8 my forum is customized to hell and im holding off until vb4 and sphinx search

i will be supporting 3.7 but at the moment its still a baby

as for the whole holding out (only reason i upgraded was to use one of my active forums to test on lol)