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.
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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.
I've been looking for this kind of mod for a long time. One thing I noticed... if you have somebody on your ignore list, their posts will still show up in the LiveTopic. Is there a way to keep from seeing the posts of somebody from your ignore list while still using this hack?
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*
Same problem I have on 3.8.1 . I think there are conflicts with mods not mentioned yet.
Bawtneez if you get it working let me know what you did.
hah....well if it helps, the variable is called "threadedmode" and if you look that up in showthread.php, there's some idea of how vB uses it...i believe it's a lookup of the $vbulletin->userinfo['threadedmode'] variable and it's basically a "3" for "Linear - Newest First" and "1" for the standard "Oldest First" post order.
hah....well if it helps, the variable is called "threadedmode" and if you look that up in showthread.php, there's some idea of how vB uses it...i believe it's a lookup of the $vbulletin->userinfo['threadedmode'] variable and it's basically a "3" for "Linear - Newest First" and "1" for the standard "Oldest First" post order.
hope that helps?
yea instead of supporting it in 1.06b i ended up requiring it to be in standard mode
(there may be support in the future)
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Originally Posted by SABRSox
I've been looking for this kind of mod for a long time. One thing I noticed... if you have somebody on your ignore list, their posts will still show up in the LiveTopic. Is there a way to keep from seeing the posts of somebody from your ignore list while still using this hack?
When someone makes a correction to a post, it comes up as a single post with a message that the post had been altered. It will do this while ppl are using/typing in the quick reply, interrupting it and whatever you have typed gets lost. This has been such a problem that my members started a poll to have the Live Thread mod removed.
Does anyone else have this problem or is there a fix for it?
The folder clientscript/yui/animation contains a script which is the same name as a script already in my clientscript/yui/animation folder. Should I allow it to overwrite?
The folder clientscript/yui/animation contains a script which is the same name as a script already in my clientscript/yui/animation folder. Should I allow it to overwrite?
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Originally Posted by inciarco
What Filename? So that Coders Shack can tell you.
The file name is: animation-min.js. So it's clientscript/yui/animation/animation-min.js.
I went ahead and let it overwrite because I wanted to get the installation done and figured I could always re-upload the original if the overwrite screwed anything up. But it is not working. It just works like a regular forum thread with no immediate update and I have an error notice at the bottom:
The file name is: animation-min.js. So it's clientscript/yui/animation/animation-min.js.
I went ahead and let it overwrite because I wanted to get the installation done and figured I could always re-upload the original if the overwrite screwed anything up. But it is not working. It just works like a regular forum thread with no immediate update and I have an error notice at the bottom:
When someone makes a correction to a post, it comes up as a single post with a message that the post had been altered. It will do this while ppl are using/typing in the quick reply, interrupting it and whatever you have typed gets lost. This has been such a problem that my members started a poll to have the Live Thread mod removed.
Does anyone else have this problem or is there a fix for it?
hmm, so just edits? (weird, ill look into this asap)
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So that Coders Shack can tell you.
