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.
Installed it when I was on 3.7.3, loved it, worked, members loved it. Upgraded to 3.8.1, didnt work, uninstalled, re-installed most recent version, still dont work. *shrugs*
I don't Think This Mod Saves Server Resources If the Check Times Are Too Close (3 Secs - 3000 Milisecs), But If You Choose Wider Times (15 Secs - 15000 Milisecs, 30 Secs - 30000 Milisecs), perhaps you'll Not Overload Your Server and Still Offer Users that Extra Service of Live Topics.
Also You Can Choose Smaller Times for Threads and Users to be Consider Live, Not the 5 Minutes (300 Seconds) but Perhaps 3 Minutes (180 Seconds).
(It's an Idea).
But I Hope Coders Shack Read my Bugs Reports and the Tests I made, because if an User Stays on a LiveTopic on a Different Page than the Last One, the Mod Continues Checking for New Posts even if the Thread Got Dead, Perhaps some Checking on the User's Side Is Not Working Fine or Missing, because those Extra Checks from Users on Threads that are Suppose to be Inactive can Cause Unnecessary Server Load (and that Should Not Exist because the Thread is Not Live). And Also the One I Reported About the Bug on the Hide Old Posts on Page that is Not Working Ok, because it Gets Stuck and Stops Users Replies to be Seen by the User that Post them.
But this Mod is Very Interesting For the Live Updating of the Threads, Like in Chat, I Hope Coders Shack can Find ways to Optimize it and Correct those Little Bugs so that Server Load can Keep Optimal even on Very Busy Threads and Forums.
My Best Regards. Can't Wait to Install and Test the Next Update of this Mod. :up:
Yah, that's what I was HoPING. but I don't have any of those mods installed. heh.
so there's no admincp configuration huh? dunno what to do/check.
what are ppl editing to make the refresh check time faster?
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Originally Posted by Britmovie
Same as you no idea why all mods but for vbseo and blogs turned off. Page just opens or lenghtens my a mm but nothing else. Icons etc all show. So if all the mods are off can we rule conflict out?
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02-18-2009, 02:18 AM
And Also the One I Reported About the Bug on the Hide Old Posts on Page that is Not Working Ok, because it Gets Stuck and Stops Users Replies to be Seen by the User that Post them. 
