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}

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[ShadowStalker]

Excellent mod

[DragonBlade]

We absolutely LOVE this modification.

However, we would like to know how to disable certain usergroups from using it (namely, Guests (Usergroup 1)). Sometimes we get a bunch of guests viewing our manga section on release days, and we'd really only like logged-in users to be able to use the Live Topic, so as to decrease load.

Thanks!

--Sarteck

[aztecboi2003]

Goes this work well with Automatic thread tagger? I looked through the thread and didn't see anyone really mention it.

[The Big Three]

I love this modification however I have recently had a problem on my forum and I'm curious if this could be the root problem to it.

There are users telling me their posts have been disappearing out of thin air....

[jaredwilli]

This isn't working for me. It did work for a few days after installing it, and it still works for my other members, but it doesn't work for me. Any ideas?

[SliceofLife]

I installed this, and I'll keep it. Thanks for the mod.

[WFSU]

Installed!

[mattdonders]

Installed this.

Seems pretty stable so far. Some users are reporting freezing, lagging and posts disappearing, but I think once I tweak the settings it will be awesome.

Great add-on!

[inciarco]

Originally Posted by DobieGillis?

I had this issue. Turned out that in the latest version, there was a file missing. It was animation-min.js. It was in 1.06 not 1.07. I figured it out by running in debug mode. Not sure if that is needed in 1.07 but when I took it out, it stopped working in FF and Opera, but worked in IE. Putting it back in solved my issues.

I Confirm this Solution; I installed the Latest Version of Live Topic without having installed the previous ones, and this File was missing on the vBulletin Installation; by Uploading this File the Posting Started to Show, (before the Postings were made but with Blank Spaces, that if copied and pasted contained the Post but Invisible on Screen); the problem was happening on FireFox and on Chrome, but not on Explorer 6.0; Is Very Important to Include that File on the Zip Package, because many users can be Experiencing this Bug caused by this Missing File.

My Best Regards.

[inciarco]

I'd like also to Report a Conflict of this Mod with "vBFavorites", and only by Disabling that Mod is that Live Topic works Fine.

Coders Shack, I Hope that you can Share with Us an Update with the Solution of the Bug of the Old Posting Hiding Problem; that is a Great Feature that would be nice to be able to Use.

My Best Regards.