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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Please remember to click the, button to the right if you installed the mod ---->

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* 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

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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

[se7o]

istalld

How can i change the font color of the user post?

[DragonByte Tech]

You'll need to edit the templates, look for the templates named "entry" for this mod


Fillip

[qpurser]

I might have missed something or overlooked some of the features but can you tell me what the exact difference is between the "standard" vB4 Live Stream and this Mod?
Also is there a cutoff date for retrieving data?

Thx
Michael

[sticky]

On VB 4.2.0 and it just isn't working. No link to the wall under community or quick links. No link on the profile page.

Installed correctly...

[sticky]

My bad, had to enable it manually under permissions.

The problem I'm having is images are way too big. Why doesn't the image resizer I'm using work in the feed: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ighlight=image

[sticky]

This mod should also display videos that are already embedded in the forum in the full feed.

Also, post previews should be longer on the full page feed.

In the sidebar I'm not sure why but I get a horizontal scroll bar like this on posts with youtube links that don't seem to fit in the feed right:

[sticky]

The wall also does not have links in blue so all the text blends together. How do I change the link color so it looks cleaner like the VB Activity stream?

[sticky]

Can I edit the font size as well?

[sticky]

Support? Really want to use this and considering purchasing pro but my version looks nothing like the pictures DBtech has posted.

BBcode in the activity stream isn't parsing as you can see in my picture above, it shows the quote tags. Just looks messy.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by sticky

My bad, had to enable it manually under permissions.

The problem I'm having is images are way too big. Why doesn't the image resizer I'm using work in the feed: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ighlight=image

Because the image resizer doesn't work with AJAX-added images, it's a design flaw in your image resizer

Originally Posted by sticky

This mod should also display videos that are already embedded in the forum in the full feed.

It does, provided the video embed is within the cut-off limit (both the start and end tag).

Originally Posted by sticky

Also, post previews should be longer on the full page feed.

Then change the settings for the Content Types

Originally Posted by sticky

In the sidebar I'm not sure why but I get a horizontal scroll bar like this on posts with youtube links that don't seem to fit in the feed right:

Would you prefer it if it stretched your page?
This happens when a string that's not broken up by a space is posted.

Originally Posted by sticky

The wall also does not have links in blue so all the text blends together. How do I change the link color so it looks cleaner like the VB Activity stream?

It uses the same link colour style as the rest of vBulletin, I'm not sure if it's a stylevar or a CSS class. Probably a stylevar.

Originally Posted by sticky

Can I edit the font size as well?

You could do that either via the CSS or via the templates. This is a customisation that we're unable to assist with, however. If you're not comfortable editing CSS or templates, please contact your skin developer for assistance.

Originally Posted by sticky

Support?

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

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Posts complaining about the lack of support in a free mod when you're posting on the unofficial modification support channel (we don't have the same level of alerts / issue tracking available on vBulletin.org as we do on our own website, which is why we give priority to posts on our forums) is a sure-fire way of annoying the coder

It's generally considered quite rude

Originally Posted by sticky

BBcode in the activity stream isn't parsing as you can see in my picture above, it shows the quote tags. Just looks messy.

BBCode cannot parse when the cut-off limit has been reached, for obvious reasons. If the closing quote tag does not exist in the trimmed content, then it cannot parse it.


Fillip