About this hack:
One of the biggest problems on forums as you may know is 'posts boosting'. There are users who LOVE to say 'thanks' when ever they can. How can it hurt? Their post count goes up, they have nothing to loose.
There are also users who really like to express their thanks to post but don't like posting a post that looks like they're post boosting.
Then comes the moderators who have to delete people's thanks yous so a thread can look readable with out the thanks yous thrown around.
Finally comes the posters of these useful posts. They have no idea how many people really likes their posts if only some people say 'thanks'.
What this hack does is fix ALL these problems - except those users who like post boosting. This places a button called 'thanks.' When a user clicks on it, it places his username in a box right under the post saying that so-and-so says 'thanks' for the post. Every-one who clicks is placed in one box.
By giving your users the extra feature, you forum will look allot nice and organized. It is a granted liking by ALL the members of your forum.
[FIXED] Bug with AJAX if you had the date showing.
Version 4.5 (6/19/06):
[FIXED] Bug with AJAX if you had hacks that added things to your output.
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Pictures:
Showing the 'thanks' button and stats in Postbit
Showing post after 'thanks' (user view)
Showing post after 'thanks' (admin view)
Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
Stats in members profile and link
Link in Search drop down menu
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Hi Abe When we're upgrading from 2.5 do we just do the template changes, or do we do the template changes, uninstall the 2.5 plugin and reinstall 2.6 plugin?
I may have to uninstall this after seeing the load / performance problems it is causing my server. If I click search->find all thanks, it causes a load on my server like I've never seen before (even with regular searches). Now I do have over 10,000 members and 850,000 posts. Is it scanning each and every post when a user clicks that? Why the huge load?
I may have to uninstall this after seeing the load / performance problems it is causing my server. If I click search->find all thanks, it causes a load on my server like I've never seen before (even with regular searches). Now I do have over 10,000 members and 850,000 posts. Is it scanning each and every post when a user clicks that? Why the huge load?
Thanks -vissa
1) You can dissable the view all thanks button by not doing that template edit.
2) Can you please explain more were the extra load is?
The load occurs whenever someone clicks "view all thanks" either in the memberinfo or navbar templates. I removed both of them, but it's a shame not to be able to do that.
It looks like the reason is because the search query it creates scans through every single post and does some very large joins. It creates by far the largest load of anything I have on my vbulletin (and I have a lot of mods, search enabled, etc). If you need more details please ask a specific question.
thanks -vissa
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Originally Posted by Abe1
1) You can dissable the view all thanks button by not doing that template edit.
2) Can you please explain more were the extra load is?
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When we're upgrading from 2.5 do we just do the template changes, or do we do the template changes, uninstall the 2.5 plugin and reinstall 2.6 plugin?
12-04-2005, 11:17 AM
