Major Additions - Synergy by Zoints - A system like Digg integrated into forums.

Index

Installation and Upgrading
FAQ, Changelog and Troubleshooting
Pre-written threads

This plugin is not currently available for vBulletin 3.7.x. Several users have reported serious incompatibilities, and we would not suggest attempting to install it on a forum running 3.7.x at this time.

Foreward

Awhile back, two visionaries by the names of Sal Collaziano and George B realized that a Digg-like system for forums could be highly beneficial. Kudos to those two for their understanding that by working together, we can all benefit.

What is Synergy?

How often does this happen to you? You or a member write a great thread, Google indexes it a week later, but it is buried in the search results so the masses never end up reading it. Frustrating, isn't it? Zoints solves this by taking a system like Digg, then integrating and mirroring in across all forums in a manner that allows great threads to be read by the masses. Synergy is designed to bring you more traffic and inspire your members to create higher quality content in order to obtain "Top Author" status.

Demos (with forums like these using Synergy, you're sure to get some traffic)

You'll notice all the demos look virtually the same except for the skins. This is due to the system mirroring itself across the forums. When a link is clicked, it takes the reader to the originating forum.

Ubuntu Forums
NASIOC
ThumperTalk
LWS


How Synergy Works

You have a lot of high quality threads on your forum. When you (or a trusted usergroup member you permission via the admincp options) decides a thread is worthy of Synergy, you select the "Add to Synergy" link as seen below.




During the next step, you write a short description for the thread and select which category it should go into.




Your thread is then added to a queue on your forum. Once every X hours, the top thread in your queue is added to Synergy.




When your thread is added to Synergy, the system distributes the link and description you wrote to all participating forums. If someone on any forum around the net clicks on your thread link, they are redirected back to your forum to the actual thread so they can read it. If people like your thread, they can vote on it which ranks it higher. Higher ranked threads, especially those that make it to the front page will in turn bring you more traffic.




The admincp settings are as follows:




Proof of Traffic

If you submit good content to Synergy that gets to the front page, you WILL get a lot of traffic. The following screenshot is from a small forum early in our testing. Guess which day it got a thread on the front page?



As more forums join Synergy, more and more people will be reading your threads. Let's work together to remove our reliance on search engines to send us traffic. Our communities are full of great content, it's time for it to be read!

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by puertoblack2003

good day,

hey chapman i posted this in the wrong version here is the link https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....4&postcount=10 that happens after i either refresh page or go to a post .

Please make sure you downloaded the correct vBulletin version for the mod then reinstall everything. Be sure that all files are uploaded and you import the product (select yes to overwrite).

[caliman]

Originally Posted by DChapman

Do you mean vote wise?

"Most Popular" doesn't necessarily mean "most votes". Votes are an extremely important aspect of determining which are most popular, but the algorithm takes a lot of variables into account. If most popular was most votes, then 3-4 threads would always be stuck on top.

That makes sense.
Besides mine is #2. (I SWAM...) I am not going to complain!

[mtlcore]

Why not let the admins create their own categories for example I can just put the forums at categories and let my members see it that way and others see threads the regular way so in all 2 categories you choose, one for your forum and one for the network..

Only the forum members will see what threads are from what forums(categories of the forum)

phew..out of breath or keystrokes..

[Vic123]

Great mod!

U can increase the number of german admins that would be appreciate a german version of it by one

[puertoblack2003]

Originally Posted by DChapman

Please make sure you downloaded the correct vBulletin version for the mod then reinstall everything. Be sure that all files are uploaded and you import the product (select yes to overwrite).

yea i already checked that i think because i'm hosting my board on windows server some how it's in the script not working well with windows. can you confirm it i may have to uninstall it.

[Freak0204]

One of my mods has reported seeing this when she loads a page anywhere on the forum. She said if she refreshes, it goes away.

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[Zoints]

Originally Posted by Freak0204

One of my mods has reported seeing this when she loads a page anywhere on the forum. She said if she refreshes, it goes away.

Do you know what browser and version she's using?

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by mtlcore

Why not let the admins create their own categories for example I can just put the forums at categories and let my members see it that way and others see threads the regular way so in all 2 categories you choose, one for your forum and one for the network..

Only the forum members will see what threads are from what forums(categories of the forum)

phew..out of breath or keystrokes..

We're looking into adding all sorts of functionality

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by puertoblack2003

yea i already checked that i think because i'm hosting my board on windows server some how it's in the script not working well with windows. can you confirm it i may have to uninstall it.

I see the forum but no threads in it, did you remove them? What browser are you using?

[puertoblack2003]

Originally Posted by DChapman

I see the forum but no threads in it, did you remove them? What browser are you using?

i use Fire Fox i just have it disabled for now. but never looked into IE not a fan but will look at it later.

edit: everything appears to be fine in IE not to sure unlike FF after clickin in two post and that's when that long script appears.Is this mod ok for FF can you confirm?