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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* 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

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Alibass

Demo pics look nothing like lite version, what are they from the pro version?

Not impressed with mod, what good is it to post a status update when you cant post a comment to it in the lite version.

Lite version looks nothing more than a chat board... looks like we are going to have to uninstall this one unless there are some decent updates coming forth in the next release.

The screenshots are indeed from the Pro version, only difference is the comments though

Originally Posted by sticky

Nothing in the feed for when people add or remove a friend?

That's because vBulletin does not currently store when a "relation" (i.e. contact or friend) was formed, so there's no way for me to tell if the friendship was new or old.


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Alibass

Not impressed with mod, what good is it to post a status update when you cant post a comment to it in the lite version.

It still posts to the wall (and more importantly to your User Wall), letting people keep up to date with your status.

Originally Posted by Alibass

Lite version looks nothing more than a chat board... looks like we are going to have to uninstall this one unless there are some decent updates coming forth in the next release.

Not sure I follow you here... chat board? The lite version can't be used as a chat board...

I think you may have completely misunderstood the mod to be honest. The point of it is to provided a "Live Feed" of what's going on in the forum/with users. It lets users keep up with recent posts/actions in real time. If that's not what you're looking for this isn't the mod for you =)

Iain

[GhettoTech]

Originally Posted by Alibass

Demo pics look nothing like lite version, what are they from the pro version?

Not impressed with mod, what good is it to post a status update when you cant post a comment to it in the lite version.

Lite version looks nothing more than a chat board... looks like we are going to have to uninstall this one unless there are some decent updates coming forth in the next release.

You are out of your mind.

This is one of the best "Facebook Wall" plug-ins to date. I will be upgrading soon to the Pro version for the commenting as well. You can't blame them for not wanting to give the cow for free here...

If I could have only one feature added to this, it would be that the "Users Wall" would be a tab located in the User Profile section. This would encourage more people to use their pages just like in Facebook... please please please! Make it so!

[Alibass]

Originally Posted by GhettoTech

You are out of your mind.

This is one of the best "Facebook Wall" plug-ins to date. I will be upgrading soon to the Pro version for the commenting as well. You can't blame them for not wanting to give the cow for free here...

If I could have only one feature added to this, it would be that the "Users Wall" would be a tab located in the User Profile section. This would encourage more people to use their pages just like in Facebook... please please please! Make it so!

There is nothing wrong with the state of my mind. <Removed> Keep your personal comments to yourself and focus on commenting on the mod only.

[AURFSCAN]

Entries per page

This setting controls how many wall entries are shown before a "Load More" link is displayed.

How does this work? I dont see it on my install or on the feed @ dragonbyte tech

[DragonByte Tech]

Whoops, that was intended for a feature that wasn't able to be included for technical reasons. I will get the wording changed in the next version


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by GhettoTech

You are out of your mind.

This is one of the best "Facebook Wall" plug-ins to date. I will be upgrading soon to the Pro version for the commenting as well. You can't blame them for not wanting to give the cow for free here...

If I could have only one feature added to this, it would be that the "Users Wall" would be a tab located in the User Profile section. This would encourage more people to use their pages just like in Facebook... please please please! Make it so!

That's high on the to-do list =) Cheers for the kind words.

Iain

[AURFSCAN]

I added a link in member action dropdown to view user's wall. something you might want to look at Fillip

edit: also added link on profile page.

[DragonByte Tech]

Good idea, I'll see if this can make it in the next version


Fillip

[KProjects]

Great mod - thanks! Installed!