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}

[inciarco]

I Have a few Questions for Coders Shack, because I detected Activity After the Thread was supposed to be Dead when Leaving the User when the Thread was Alive:

Question 1: I can see that if I make Second Account go to another Page of the Thread while it's still Alive, and wait until the Thread goes Dead (after the time specified for it to be Live), and then when I Post a Reply with First Account, I can see the Bottom Right Message that Alerts about a New Post being Made. Is this Normal Behaviour of the Mod? (seems like on that case the Mod still looks for New Posts Being Made on the Thread when you're in another Page of the Thread, and a Loss of Resources on a Thread that Went Dead).

Question 2: I can see that if I make Second Account Enter to another Page of the Thread when it's Dead, and then when I Post a Reply with First Account, I can see the Bottom Right Message that Alerts about a New Post being Made. Is this Normal Behaviour of the Mod? (seems like on that case the Mod looks for New Posts Being Made on the Thread when you're in another Page of the Thread, and a Loss of Resources on a Thread that Went Dead).

Question 3: I can Still See Sendind/Receiving Data on my Computer each X Seconds (X is the Numbers of Second Specified for this Mod to Check for New Posts), when I Leave a User on a Topic while it was Alive and After the Thread Becomes Dead. Is this Normal Behaviour of the Mod? (seems like on that case the Mod looks for New Posts Being Made on the Thread when you leave a User while it is Alive, and a Loss of Resources on a Thread that Went Dead).

I think that Perhaps there is a Behaviour that You Should Study on the Code:

- When the Thread Becomes Dead, Why is it Still Sending the Checkings for New Posts being made when the User is in another Page of that Thread, and Report the New Posts being made Only if You're on Another Page of that Thread, (if you are in the Last Page of the Thread, it Checks for those New Posts but it Doesn't Report them because the Thread went Dead, but if you were in another Page besides the Last one, then it'll Alert you as I mentioned before), so seems like this Loss of Resources is Caused by the part of the Code that Alerts about New Posts being Made when You're in Another Page of the Thread while it is Alive and Leave your User there without Leaving the Thread. (I'm guessing, you're the one that knows the Code, but check and You'll see that the Activity Continues (Sending/Receiving Data on the Connection Status the one with the 2 Computers in it on your Windows).

Seems to me like it shouldn't be that way, and that when the Time Passed after the Y Minutes You Specified for a Thread and/or an User to be Live, the Code should Stop Making the Calls for Checking for New Posts.

My Best Regards.

[Swampfox]

I absolutely love this mod, but it brings my site to a crawl, what do I need to ask my host for?

[inciarco]

Originally Posted by Swampfox

I absolutely love this mod, but it brings my site to a crawl, what do I need to ask my host for?

Try Making the Checkings for New Posts for 15000 or more miliseconds and not the 3000 suggested. You'll be reducing your loads to the server to 1/5 or less than the original setting.

Also you can reduce the time a Thread and a User is Live, from the 5 Minutes (300 seconds) to less than that, and check your Server Loadings.

(Remember to Report your Results here for all to Know ).

My Best Regards.

[socalsoccer]

Yes I tryed in realtime with another member and nothing happened, it posted normally. I guess I will turn all of them off at once, and then try.

thanks

[HabboForum]

BUG

There is a bug in 1.06

I know it's because our page width is narrower, but that's not the point.

Here is a screenshot:

[gmerin]

Got a conflict: Marquee Text (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...marquee&page=3) conflicts with this: enabled and the ajax refresh stops. disabled and it resumes, every time.

[DobieGillis?]

Originally Posted by gmerin

Got a conflict: Marquee Text (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...marquee&page=3) conflicts with this: enabled and the ajax refresh stops. disabled and it resumes, every time.

yep, same here!

[Coders Shack]

Originally Posted by HabboForum

BUG

There is a bug in 1.06

I know it's because our page width is narrower, but that's not the point.

Here is a screenshot:

i think you can control this via css, if not ill make it possible in the future (its a layout bug)

[schlottkej]

still getting a JS error...

If Im adding ads in postbit, can that be the problem?

[azher]

Hello,

Originally Posted by Coders Shack

Added to my todo list, i didn't even know you could do that...

Any idea on when this might make it to a release (honoring "Latest Posts First"/reverse post order, if the memory is a bit foggy)?