Miscellaneous Hacks - [DBTech] Forum Live Feed & User Wall v1 (vB4) [AJAX]

Forum Live Feed & User Wall lets you see a continuously updated feed of activities on the forum, with a powerful set of customisation options for sources of information.

Uses
If you've wished for a Facebook-like feed for your forum, this mod is for you.

This mod adds 2 distinct features to your site. First a live feed showing actions performed by everyone on the forum, from new threads and posts to things like new avatars or signatures, your members can customise their feed and keep up to date with everything that's going on, right as it happens.
Secondly every user also has their own wall that displays what they have been up to. This lets users see what their friends have been doing and join in!
With advanced privacy configuration options and configurable preview options for each content type, this mod compliments other modifications like InfoPanels and produces a more detailed and verbose feed of the happenings on the forum.


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

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Translations available @ our forum
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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Complete Feature List

Lite

• Forum Sidebar block type
• Preview in Forum Sidebar
• Ability to turn off IMG tag parsing on both main pages and Sidebar
• Status updates (from Forum Sidebar or the Live Wall page)
• Content types for nearly all forum actions:
  • Posts
  • Threads
  • Avatar changes (Only if Avatars are stored in the file system!)
  • Signature picture changes (Only if Signature Pictures are stored in the file system!)
  • Username changes
  • Social Group discussion
  • Social Group discussion replies
  • Status Updates (From this mod)
  • vBLive Status Updates
  • vBArcade Scores
  • [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like: Button clicks for Posts
• Nobody / Registered Users / Contacts Only / Friends Only display options for each content type to control who you see feeds from
• Nobody / Registered Users / Contacts Only / Friends Only privacy options for each content type to control who can see your feeds
• Automatically refreshing via AJAX at controllable intervals

Pro

• Recent Entries page with more entries displayed, no auto refresh
• Ability to "favourite" stories and view them from their own page
• Comments system
  • Comment count in the main feed with link to comment thread
  • Ability to post comments in the comment thread
  • AJAX refreshed comment threads
  • Ability to delete your own/others comments with usergroup permissions
• Content types for nearly all forum actions:
  • Blog Posts
  • Blog Comments
  • User Notes
  • Visitor Messages
  • Profile Pictures

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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

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Mukashi

Hmmm. Odd. The Quote tag doesn't seem to be parsing in the Forum Sidebar block for this addon. Why would that be happening? Oo;

That would be because of the character preview cut-off

Originally Posted by Mukashi

Is the setting to be able to edit other's status something that only works in the Pro version? Doesn't seem to do anything in the Lite version we've just installed.

Nope, it's working fine in the Lite version that I just installed on a test board

Please double-check that you have configured the usergroup permissions correctly.


Fillip

[Mukashi]

Ahh, I see. So it's not actually parsing the rest of the quote, and so doesn't know to close it off? Hmmmm. Nothing that can be done to fix that?

Usergroup permissions are most certainly figured correctly. There's only one thing to configure there afterall. Unless we're just missing the exact place where we're supposed to do this editing?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Mukashi

Ahh, I see. So it's not actually parsing the rest of the quote, and so doesn't know to close it off? Hmmmm. Nothing that can be done to fix that?

Short of extending the preview cutoff, but that would just "postpone" the problem to another length of post

Originally Posted by Mukashi

Usergroup permissions are most certainly figured correctly. There's only one thing to configure there afterall. Unless we're just missing the exact place where we're supposed to do this editing?

Nope, just the Usergroup Manager


Fillip

[Mukashi]

I meant the editing of the user's status. But yeah, we were right about that setting, the issue wasn't there. Went back and checked again just to be sure.

[glen290]

Not a biggie for me but getting text outside of the borders on my forumblock, its only when I have posted a link..

[DragonByte Tech]

That will be fixed in the next version


Fillip

[ywwz]

wonderful mod!

[hpidriver]

Not sure if I missed the setting to edit this but... I have certain forum sections in which threads are visible only to the person who started the thread and staff members.

Live feed and wall posts this information even if a user has no permission to read thread or contents. Help?

[DragonByte Tech]

It doesn't post them, it simply displays the content, and it respects forum permissions


Fillip

[hpidriver]

I have a forum named "Contact Staff" where users have the following permissions:
Can View Forum - Yes
Can View Thread Content - Yes
Can View Others' Threads - No

User A and B are in the same usergroup with these permissions. Each can only see their own posted threads in this forum.
However when User A posts something in this private section, User B is able to see the contents of said post because it is displayed on the Live Feed and User Wall.