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Digital Point Spy
Version: 1.11, by digitalpoint digitalpoint is offline
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Category: Miscellaneous Hacks - Version: 4.x.x Rating:
Released: 05-26-2010 Last Update: 09-09-2012 Installs: 404
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About
This is a Digg-style spy for seeing what's going on in your forum in realtime.

This is something I originally made about 4 years ago. Now that I rewrote it for vBulletin 4 (it also now uses the bundled YUI for animation), I decided to also wrap it up as a product package and release it for the world to use.

Installation
  • Put the spy.php file in your forum folder.
  • Put the digitalpoint_spy.js file in your clientscript folder.
  • Install the product-digitalpoint_spy.xml product under AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product
You can see a live version in action here:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/spy.php


1.1.0 Update
  • Moved JavaScript to external file (works around template parsing bug with early versions of vBulletin 4.0.x).
  • XML generation is done with vBulletin's XML Builder class (let it deal with weird characters).
  • Switched JavaScript library to from YUI to jQuery (for an end user, it means better animations).
  • Changed do=xml to do=feed (works around servers that are overly protective and think they are trying to be hacked and blocking the request).

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Old 01-28-2011, 05:56 PM
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any way to make this function more like on this site?

http://www.facepunch.com/fp_ticker.php and if so, how hard would implementing it be?
So pretty much just cut everything our except new posts?
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Old 01-28-2011, 08:16 PM
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So pretty much just cut everything our except new posts?
Actually, rather like, removing the preview but making it indicate if you have posted in the thread, or if you have been mentioned in the thread. basically making it a little more under the "keep it simple" principle.

Showing post icons on the thread in question might also be a nice feature.

Other than that, ive been enjoying this plugin for a long time, really really great work!
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Old 01-28-2011, 10:57 PM
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You can already have the Spy only show threads you are subscribed to (ones you care about). As far as being mentioned in a thread, to be honest that seems kind of well... pointless.

It would be better to have a system that monitored new threads for keywords the user picked (if they wanted to pick their username, then they could, but they could also pick others). And be notified via email. Sitting there watching every thread stream across in hopes someone mentioned your username doesn't seem terribly efficient. Especially considering you literally would have to sit there and watch since after 25 more posts in the forum were made, it would have scrolled off the Spy and you wouldn't see any longer.
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You can already have the Spy only show threads you are subscribed to (ones you care about). As far as being mentioned in a thread, to be honest that seems kind of well... pointless.

It would be better to have a system that monitored new threads for keywords the user picked (if they wanted to pick their username, then they could, but they could also pick others). And be notified via email. Sitting there watching every thread stream across in hopes someone mentioned your username doesn't seem terribly efficient. Especially considering you literally would have to sit there and watch since after 25 more posts in the forum were made, it would have scrolled off the Spy and you wouldn't see any longer.
i have to agree with you, keyword monitoring would be alot better i can see your whole thing with reacting to someone's usename, however i think threads you've posted in (i dont subscribe to all posts i have posted in) i think that'd still be a nbice feature for down the road sometime should it not be too hard to add.
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ever since the update , mine has quit working??? Can you post the old XML?
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uninstalled , making my server load go up 15 points!
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ever since the update , mine has quit working??? Can you post the old XML?
What's the URL you have it installed at?
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I just installed this product, because vaispy was just conking out and stopped feeding. However, is there a settings page? I need to be able to block certain forums from posting to this feed, which are restricted to managers.
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Trying to make sure I'm subscribed to the thread

Here's our link:
http://www.igotasti.com/vBforum/spy.php
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I just installed this product, because vaispy was just conking out and stopped feeding. However, is there a settings page? I need to be able to block certain forums from posting to this feed, which are restricted to managers.
It should follow forum permissions. Look at it as a guest.
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