This product is different from anything you have seen before, it raises the bar for forums. It will make your forums much more interactive, and also reduce server load.
Technical Details:
If a thread has been posted in X seconds then its now Live, if other users are viewing the Live topic and are on the last page they will experience a clean ajax experience while talking to other members. Once the thread is older than X seconds its no longer Live and it will now act like a normal thread. Also if a user edits one of their posts that's inside of the thread, it will be updated too so there is no longer a reason to ever have to refresh.
There is also logic for the viewer, the viewer of the thread has to be in an active state to see responses. An active user state is determined upon the users actions, if no actions were made in X seconds then the user is marked as inactive.
Also you may wonder why this could save your server bandwidth and CPU. If a user is refreshing to talk to another members the queries on a normal thread load are way more intense than the ajax call that this modification makes. So if you have 5 people talking to each other none of them have to refresh the page, all they are doing is simple page requests and one intense request when there has actual change.
You can test Live Topic with two users, you will see how amaizing this is... And probably spontaneously combust.
Trying this now, and it's very cool. I have a few suggestions, though.
- Maybe replace the "livetopic" image that contains text with a simple icon (maybe a small camera or something because it's LIVE!).
- It'd be nice if there were an option to automatically scroll the page down on each reply. I don't know if this is possible, but it'd be kinda nice, especially if you're just reading a thread's updates.
I don't know if this was already suggested, but allowing you to decide which forums it's enabled for would be cool.
Also, if you have the confirmation page for posting enabled, to have those pages disabled when the topic is live.
for the first one ill keep that in mind
as for the confirmation page, ill need to fix this. (not an issue on my end or VB... Its just a conflict for your configuration)
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Originally Posted by Chicago_VLNU_4s
might try this once I upgrade
there is a 3.7 version now
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Originally Posted by Fangs404
Trying this now, and it's very cool. I have a few suggestions, though.
- Maybe replace the "livetopic" image that contains text with a simple icon (maybe a small camera or something because it's LIVE!).
- It'd be nice if there were an option to automatically scroll the page down on each reply. I don't know if this is possible, but it'd be kinda nice, especially if you're just reading a thread's updates.
All in all, though, this is pretty darn cool.
some people have edited the .gif and just removed the text. (ill try to come up with something fun)
as for the scroll thing ill try, also something i would like to do is after QR on a "livetopic" it would autofocus back to the QR box.
Actually, I'm sorry. My first recommendation was wrong. I had uploaded thread_livetopic.gif and thread_livetopic.orange.gif to the wrong place, so I wasn't seeing the images. These images look just fine.
One of my friends made before we realized this. Feel free to take it and adapt it if you like.
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01-14-2009, 01:48 AM
before we realized this. Feel free to take it and adapt it if you like.
