Miscellaneous Hacks - Live Topic

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Live Demo:

Live Topic 1.07b Demo (you must be logged in, and the topic must be "live")

Videos: 1.00b 1.06b

watch the damn videos... ^_^

Description:

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.

Found a bug? Want to request a feature?

Live Topic - Project Manager

Installation:

This is take less than 3 minutes to install, takes longer to notice its amazing feature. (you need multiple people to be active in the same topic)

Upgrade:

[1.01b to 1.XXb] Uninstall the product, then reinstall it. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

[1.02b to 1.03b] Overwrite files, upgrade product (dont install product)

[1.03b to 1.04b] Uninstall the product, then reinstall it. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

[1.04b to 1.05b, 1.05b to 1.06b,1.06b to 1.07b] Upgrade the product. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

Works With (FF2, FF3, IE6, IE7, IE8, SF2, SF3, CHROME):

vBulletin [3.8.X]

get the vBulletin [3.7.X] version here

INCOMPATIBLE HACKS:

• USC
• PassiveVid (1.x)
• gXboxLive
• Topic (incl. Blog) of the Week
• Marquee Text

Versions:

1.01b
1.02b

fixes

safari 2 support
safari 3 support
google chrome support
added live topic icon on new posts page
fixed security issue, strongly suggest upgrading!

changes

added live edit (to avoid a performance hit i had to add two rows to two tables in the database)
added external style sheet

1.03b

fixes

fix double post
phrase notification
fixed an edit bug for people with table prefixes

changes

ability to change interval in ACP

1.04b

fixes

javascript error for guests
fixed live topic activation (first poster to raise a dead topic)

changes

auto quick reply focus after post

1.05b

fixes

css flaw
js error for unsupported browsers (random)
fixed chrome issue

changes

edit notification - thanks to nso
rebuilding some of the original logic to hopefully prevent product conflicts

1.06b

fixes

fixed a little javascript issue that had to do with displaying posts
uses GPC cleaner now

changes

limit the number of ajax posts on the live topic (example 40) and fade them away.
changed the way the hooks are used
tightened up everything a bit

1.07b

fixes

fixed a bug where the live topic notification always making an ajax call

changes

support user ignore list
changed the way the javascript logic worked (hopefully there are less compatibly issues) added support for IE6 and IE8

1.10

hmm

{Mark As Installed}

{Don't forget to vote for Modification of the Month}

[Pipo123]

Just so you know: the load on our forum tripled.
We run the forum on a dual quadcore 2 ghz Intel Xeon with 8GB ram and 15k rpm SAS disks. On peak times mysql will jump to 4 full cores maxing them out.

[Coders Shack]

Originally Posted by Pipo123

Just so you know: the load on our forum tripled.
We run the forum on a dual quadcore 2 ghz Intel Xeon with 8GB ram and 15k rpm SAS disks. On peak times mysql will jump to 4 full cores maxing them out.

have you tried changing the time outs? (in the ACP)

[staticrebelle]

Installed and nominated!

Outstanding mod - my members are loving this! I was wondering, is there a way to get all the users who are active in a Live Thread listed somewhere at the bottom of the thread? I think that would be a sweet addition

xx

[HabboForum]

Originally Posted by Pipo123

Just so you know: the load on our forum tripled.
We run the forum on a dual quadcore 2 ghz Intel Xeon with 8GB ram and 15k rpm SAS disks. On peak times mysql will jump to 4 full cores maxing them out.

Yeah, we gave it another go but we just keep running out of MySQL connections, resulting in the post table crashing etc, so we've had to disable it.

SUGGESTION:

I think it'd be a great idea to have the option to enable it for specific user groups only. This will come in handy for those in our situation. (high load + database crashes) Allowing us to enable it for certain user groups only (such as paid subscription user groups and staff user groups) would mean that large/active boards could compromise, and still take advantage of this plugin.

For active/larger boards, I feel that this addition is essential.

Cheers.

[Alfa1]

I second that suggestion. I would very much like to offer this function to my members, but am afraid to find myself in the same situation as Pipo123.

Please add usergroup permissions.

[cdnbacon]

Wonderful mod! I'm very pleased with how much promise this can offer. The only reason I knew about this addon is because other members of my board are requesting this ALREADY.

Couple of issues:

1 (FYI). I did indeed get this to work with USC. I'm still running the 3.7 USC on my 3.8 but no issues when running Live Topic.

2. When I have the addon "passiveVid" enabled (version 1.1.2) Live Topic stops working.

3. When Live Topic is running we seem to be having issues with:
- Postbit related addons appear to stop working on all refreshed content.
- Reputation images appear to stop working on refreshed content

Let me know if you need any techincal answers and I can do my best.

Good stuff. Disabled for now but watching very closely.

[SHANE-D-PAIN]

Would there be any way to easily modify this so that we can make the TITLE tag Blink with the Prefix "Updated" or something, as per Facebook Chat.
It'd be great for when their are a number of Tabs open.

[cdnbacon]

Sorry to be a nag as I know this is free... I'm just curious if you had any ideas on the above issues we've all posted? I'm really eager to get this addon working but want to wait until it's working correctly.

[993ti]

Awesome mod.
Not working on my forum so i'll keep an eye on this.
Nominated MOTM

[wAnBoA]

Installed!
It works on 3.8~~~