New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging v3 (vB4)

Advanced @User Tagging: What is it?

DragonByte Technologies is proud to present [DBTech] Advanced @User Tagging.

The @user Tagging mod is designed to increase activity on your forum by allowing members to mention each other in posts when talking about them.
This is done in a very easy way, very similar to how Twitter mentions people. We use @ ; as the tags, so for instance you could say:
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This new mod from @Dragonbyte Tech; is pretty cool.
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The ?@DragonByte Tech;? Will become a link to the DragonByte Tech users profile, it will also inform DragonByte Tech they had been mentioned, and link to the relevant thread/post via a new area in the profile section, as well as a new tab in the shoutbox.

It also allows members to ?tag? the thread for specific other members by inputting their usernames in the tag box above the posts of the thread.

This is a great way to increase your forum activity with no extra admin input required ? people will start to mention posts/threads to their friends, which will increase the amount of posting. This is especially useful of forums which have an international contingent (so threads posted in during the night for some of your members don't go overlooked) or forums which have a lot of posts/threads each day ? again to make sure that a post a person might want to read doesn't get lost in the crowd.

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What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!
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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php

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Major Features
Twitter-style @ "Mentions": Typing @username produces a "Mention" that will alert the user to your post, as well as link to their profile.

Quote Alerts: Members you quote will be alerted, ensuring that discussions can continue smoothly even if they left the thread.

Profile Integration: Displays Mentions, Tags and Quotes in profile tabs for quick overview of a member's activities within the mod.


Complete Feature List
Lite

Emails:

• Email alerts for all features
• Globally disable emails for any of the features

General Features:

• Ability to disable Thread Tag list entirely for guests
• Globally disable any of the features

General:

• Statistics Page: Top X Thread Tagged, Top X Mentioned (Lite locked to Top 5)
• "Mention" alerts: Type @username to mention someone, and link to their profile. Email & forum notification
• Quote alerts: Email & forum notification
• Tag an user in a thread to alert them to the thread via a box above threads
• View list of tagged users above threads, with link to see all tags
• Profile Tabs: Lists both incoming and outgoing mentions, quotes and thread tags
• Shoutbox Integration: New Shoutbox Tab to list incoming mentions & tags
• Control how many users to display in inline tag list
• Turn statistics page on & off
• Control BBCode for mentioned usernames (Underline only)
• Control [DBTech] vBShout integration
• Turn features on & off per category
• Globally disable email alerts
• Ability to set maximum mentions per post (default: unlimited)

Pro

• Hash Tags:
  • One-click (un)subscribe to hash tags via the post list page
  • Clicking a hashtag shows all posts tagged with that word.
  • (vB4) Forum Sidebar widget with Recent and Trending hash tags
  • Control number of Recent / Trending hash tags
  • Control time span for Recent / Trending hash tags (x Hours/Days/Weeks)
  • Control stat weights given to individual users using the hash tag, and number of uses in total (for the Trending score)
  • Control display of number of users, number of uses and trending score
  • Deny usergroups access to sidebar block
  Emails:
  • Per-user email disable for any of the 4 features
  General Features:
  • Ability to Mention and Thread Tag whole usergroups by typing their name. Per-UG permission to disable Mentions / Thread Tags for this UG.
  General:
• Ability to tag all your friends by checking a checkbox instead of typing out usernames
• Ability to tag and mention all usergroups by typing out the usergroup name, permissions control what UGs can be mentioned and tagged
• Turn off alerts from everyone except friends
• Hide forum notifications for individual features
• Turn off email alerts for individual features
• Hash tags, Twitter-style, add a topic to your post, sends notification to subscribed users
• (vB4) Forum Sidebar block with Recent & Trending hash tags
• (vB4) Works with the Mobile Style (4.1.12+)
• Turn tag list off
• Control number of users displayed on Top X Stats
• Hide "@" on mentions
• Additional BBCode (Bold, Italic, Highlight) for mentions
• Exclude usergroups from features
• Exclude users from features

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[cdoyle]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Not currently, no They do receive a forum notification though.

Are there any plans on adding PM functionality?
That would make this mod very useful in my forum and I'm sure all forums since it will help raise activity for every forum it's installed at.

Since users will want to know why they were tagged in a thread, and come back to view it.

[DragonByte Tech]

I believe it's on the todo list as well as direct email notifications


Fillip

[Makaveli007]

Originally Posted by w8baby

not compatible with 4.1.11.

when you go to your own profile

you get

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 322049 bytes) in /home/gamer/public_html/forums/includes/functions.php on line 7182

had to disable this mod to remove the error

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Not currently, no They do receive a forum notification though.

Can't say I can think of anything, document.write does not exist anywhere in my mod

Try it on a default (unmodified) skin and see if it works there


Fillip

figured it out Fillip! Like w8baby's issue, it only happened when people went to their own profile. Even after I increased to 128 MB allowed for PHP, the issue still happened, and I was unable to replicate it.

After working with a member on my site we narrowed it down to being old out dated version of firefox (perhaps other old browsers) as well, being unable to understand the new way the yuipath javascript is written into the headinclude template. in vb 4.1.11 it was re-written to ' + yuipath + '. My guess is this is some format that older versions of firefox cannot understand.

[cdoyle]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

I believe it's on the todo list as well as direct email notifications


Fillip

That's great, it will be a great addition to this modification.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Makaveli007

figured it out Fillip! Like w8baby's issue, it only happened when people went to their own profile. Even after I increased to 128 MB allowed for PHP, the issue still happened, and I was unable to replicate it.

After working with a member on my site we narrowed it down to being old out dated version of firefox (perhaps other old browsers) as well, being unable to understand the new way the yuipath javascript is written into the headinclude template. in vb 4.1.11 it was re-written to ' + yuipath + '. My guess is this is some format that older versions of firefox cannot understand.

Most interesting, I wouldn't think that would cause such an issue.

Thanks for letting me know in such great detail, it'll come in very handy for any future support queries


Fillip

[clubvr4]

Is it possible to make the member.php tabs (Thread Tags, Mentions and Quotes) only visible to that user and not everyone?

[DragonByte Tech]

Not currently, no


Fillip

[GONUMBER6]

Fillip,

I updated this mod today to the newer version, now the notifications are not clearing. Also when I upgraded many months ago it does not take you straight to your mentions in the profile, but to visitor messages upon clicking the notification.

I have been trying to figure out which modification I have installed that may be causing these issues, but no luck so far. Is there any mods you are aware of that do these things?

[DragonByte Tech]

That would be vBSEO


Fillip

[GONUMBER6]

I do have vbseo but it is disabled, did that a long time ago because it made my forum so slow!

Okay I have disabled everything in my forum and it is still happening. Any suggestions?