Chat Modifications - [DBTech] vBShout v6 (vB4) [AJAX]

DragonByte Technologies are proud to present vBShout v6: The most advanced, Most feature-rich and most professional shoutbox ever.


Uses

vBShout is the ideal way to keep members on your forum while they wait for replies to their posts. It can be used in many ways - as a chat room for members, for staff to discuss issues in realtime, as a live-update feed of new posts and threads, as a way to track member milestones... Best of all, you can have multiple boxes in use for multple purposes!

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Major Lite Features

Advanced Shout Control: You have the ability to post shouts, edit your shouts, PM shouts to other users, Ignore other users, insert /Me commands, insert smilies, Bbcode, change font, text colour etc.

Advanced Staff Control: Give your staff members customised permissions to allow them to do certain actions, on all or selected instances and chat rooms. Permissions include: Silencing users, banning users, editing user shouts, Creating/Editing "Sticky Notices", Pruning shouts and much more.

Resource Optimisation: vBShout implements an Advanced Optimisation Protocol to save your forum resources. Enabling this will further reduce the amount of resources consumed by the shoutbox. AOP was originally featured in Inferno vBShout, and DBTech vBShout takes it to the next level by ensuring that all your chats are always up-to-date without taking up needless amount of resources.

Customisable New Post / Thread Notifications: Allows you to make the shoutbox post when a new thread is created, or a new post is made. You can make this happen with all threads (Which will take user permissions into account) or only threads/posts from certain forums.

Shoutbox Tabs: New PM's or User Chat Rooms create Tabs. Tabs will highlight to let you know something new has happened, and you can even set them to make sounds to alert you.

Active Users Shout-bit: Shows the users active in the tab/instance you are, with the option to view everyone who can enter/exit the room at will (and thus see any shouts posted) in a pop-up to save resources. Perfect for seeing what's going on and who's around at a glance.

Context Menus: Many places now make use of context menus ? less having to remember /commands, one click access to the most useful and commonly used functions, and the ability for users to access their shoutbox settings directly from the shoutbox itself.

Custom Chat Rooms: Your users can now set up their own Chat-Tabs, where they get to set who can come and chat. Perfect for clubs, guilds etc. Admins can also create permanent Chat rooms for specific usergroups etc. ? perfect for a staff only chat room for instance, or to reward loyal members!

Custom Shoutbox Instances: Ever wanted a separate shoutbox just for your admin forum? Got a part of your board only for VIP members? Now you can set a shoutbox specific to those areas.

Shoutbox Sounds: You asked for it, we delivered. Customisable sounds now available on receiving shouts, Invites, PM's and more. (Requires QuickTime Plugin)

Archive: View all the shouts posted since the last pruning, Also shows you the top X shouters, a variety of interesting and useful shoutbox statistics, and allows you to search previous shouts.

Logging: Worried about staff members pruning the shoutbox to cover their tracks? Don't worry, with our advanced logging options, you can make sure a hard copy is kept of every action taken.

Revamped Thread / Reply Notices: Do you have a massive board with 100+ forums? With the revamped New Thread / Reply Notices page, you can edit exactly what forums show what notices in what instance all from one page.

Downloadable Shoutbox Archives: You and your shoutbox admins can download a complete dump of the Shoutbox' archive for all instances. With 3 supported formats (tab-delimited CSV, XML and TXT), there's something for everyone whether your purpose is review or programming.

Easy Shoutbox Notice Editing: You and usergroups with the "Can Set Sticky" permission can now edit the notice by double-clicking the Sticky in the shoutbox. Quickly fix typos or rapidly update with new turn of events, editing it is never more than two clicks away.

Shoutbox Report System: Members can now report offensive shouts by using the shout context menu. When a report has been submitted, those with the "Can Moderate Chat" permission will see how many reports need their attention via a new chat tab in the Shoutbox.

Easy User Infractions: The context menu also adds a quick link to infract users, for those who can access vBulletin's infraction system. This lets you quickly punish members who are overstepping your bounds.

Blog Integration: Give blogs a more prominent place on your forum by having the Shoutbox post notifications when someone posts a new blog or comments on a blog.


Professional Only benefits:

Personal User Shoutbox Options: Integrated with User CP, User gets to decide which things show on their shoutbox, PM's, notifications etc. Even what editor options show up for them. They also get to decide where their text input area goes for TOTAL customisation.

Ignore List: Allows users to keep track of who they are ignoring, and control this option via a list.

Custom Commands: Lets you and your users create their own commands for use. For example, create pre-set warning comments ? Staff member types /firstwarning, Text appears saying "This is your first warning for breaking the shoutbox rules. You can view these rules at [link] If you have a question about this warning, please PM myself. Thanks.

Extra Tab Options: The ability to set separate tabs for system notifications and notices is available in the PRO version, fantastic for keeping your chat tab uncluttered.

Detach Shoutbox: Lets you and your users have the shoutbox open in a seperate browser window/tab for easier use etc.

Additional Moderation Commands: The ability to add/edit the sticky notice through the shoutbox.

Advanced Archive Searching: Ability to search by any combination of username, Last X Hours, Start/End date, as well as keyword. Filter searches, sort by criteria etc.

Extended Instance Options: Allows you to have separate notices per instance, set usergroup settings for individual instances, and even set unique staff permissions for each individual instance.

Expanded Context Menus: Lets your member/staff use the context menu to add/update the sticky note, Ban and Unban users, Ignore/Unignore users and prune individual user shouts.

Extra User Chat Room Moderation: Shows a page displaying every use-created chat room, who made it, how many active members/total members it has etc, and options to close it etc.


Complete Feature List
Lite

• Shoutbox
  • Post Shouts
  • Edit / Delete Shouts
  • Shouts played using HTML5 <audio> tags
  • PM other users
    • PM tabs for convo between two users
  • View Active Users
    • Separate context-aware block that shows the people active in your specific tab.
• Smilies
  • Integrates with vBulletin smilie popup for easy overview of all available smilies.
• Update text styles
  • Bold
  • Italic
  • Underline
  • Font
  • Colour
• Slash commands
  • Built-in commands in a drop-down list
  • /banlist for a list of all users banned from the shoutbox
• Context menu for available actions
  • View Profile
  • Send PM
• Create chat room
  • Invite / Manage users that can access this chat room
  • Inviting an user sends them a pop-up asking them to join the room.
• Tabs
  • Highlights when you're not viewing them but they have new messages.
  • Chat Rooms get tabs added as you join them.
• Logging
  • Default logging logs all administrative slash commands.
• Archive
  • View list of all Shouts in the system
  • Top X Shouters
  • Shoutbox Statistics
  • Search Archive
    • Search by
      • Phrase
• AdminCP
  • Instance Manager
    • Different instances on different pages
  • Chat Room Manager
    • Assign usergroups to chat rooms
  • Edit Settings
    • Which commands to log
    • Log level
    • Shouts to display
    • Shouts to display (Archive)
    • Shoutbox Height
    • Shout display order
    • Shoutbox Refresh Rate
    • Smilies on / off
    • PMs on / off
    • Allowed BBCode controls
    • Enabled Editor Tools
    • Maximum [SIZE]
    • Max characters per shout
    • Max images per shout
    • Archive "Top X Shouters" count
    • Active Users block on/off
    • Auto-Delete Shouts
    • Max chat rooms per user
    • Global sound switch
    • Play sounds while idle
    • Per-Usergroup display of moderator actions (like pruning shouts)
    • Ability to disable the "Chat Access" list
    • Project Tools integration
    • Ability to disable Blog notifications
    • Alternating Shout Background Colours
    • Forum Milestones (replacing the simple "Post Markers")
      • Every X Posts
      • Every X Threads
      • Every X Members
  • Show command log
  • Show banned users
  • Show shout log
  • Maintenance
    • Reset all style customisations
  • Ban / Silence management in Edit User

Shoutbox Sessions

• Shoutbox activity is tracked separate from users' shouts
• Only shows people who perform an action as active
• "Active Indicator" on the toolbar shows whether the user is active in the SB or not
• Doesn't flag users generating automatic notices as active

Anonym.To Integration

• Ability to anonymise any URL entered in the Shoutbox per-instance with Anonym.to
• Works with BBCode URLs
• Displays regular URL while editing shouts

Disallow "ALL CAPS"

• Ability to disallow all caps per-instance
• Uses vBulletin's "Prevent SHOUTING" setting to de-caps the shout

New Slash Command: /resetshouts

• Resets all users' "Lifetime Shouts" counter to how many shouts they currently have in the system
• (Pro) /resetshouts user to reset an individual user's "Lifetime Shouts" counter
• Great way to put spammers in their place

Context Menu Improvements

• Dedicated context menu item for editing shouts (if user has permission to edit that shout)
• Dedicated context menu item for deleting shouts (if user has permission to delete that shout)
• JavaScript performance for menu closure operations has been improved

"Invisibility" Toggle

• Click the activity status icon to toggle invisibility
• Uses the status icon from your vBulletin skin
• Hides the user from all activity displays in the entire instance
• Great for surprising friends with shouts out of the blue!

Pro

• Context Menu Options
• Moderation actions
  • Add / Update Sticky Note
  • Ban / Unban users
  • Ignore / unignore users
  • Prune user's shouts
• Slash commands
  • /silencelist for a list of all users silenced in the shoutbox
• Separate tab for Notifications
  • Lets you hide them from the main view but still have them accessible.
• Separate tab for System Messages
  • Lets you hide them from main view but still have them accessible.
• Detach shoutbox
  • Shows a dedicated shoutbox browser window.
• Shoutbox Options
  • Integration with UserCP
    • General Shoutbox Settings
      • Enable / Disable PMs
      • Enable / Disable Notifications
      • Enable / Disable System Messages
      • Override shout styles
      • Sounds on/off
        • Shout
        • Invite
        • PM
      • Hide alternating shoutbox background colours
      • Hide user avatars
    • Display Settings
      • Hide/Display individual Editor settings (Font, text colour etc)
      • Control shout area location
    • Tab Reordering
      • Re-order chat tabs
• Custom Commands
  • Add / Edit custom commands
• Ignore List
  • Add / Remove users
• High-level logging logs everything
• vBActivity & Awards integration (Award, Achievement, Promotion)
• Filter archive shouts by chatroom
• Create threads from archive shouts
• Search Archive
  • Search by
    • Username
    • Last X Hours
    • Start Date
    • End Date
  • Sort order for search results
  • Shouts per page
• Filter archive shouts
• Edit/Delete shouts in archive
• Separate Sticky notices per instance
• Separate usergroup permissions per instance
• Assign chat room to any / all instance(s)
• Shoutbox Refresh Rate
  • While idle
• PMs on / off
• Archive "Top X Shouters" count
• Play sounds while idle
• Maintenance
  • Reset all style customisations
• Ban / Silence management in Edit User
• Forum Milestones (replacing the simple "Post Markers")
  • Every X Blogs
  • Every X Shouts
  • Every X [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like button clicks received
  • Every X [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging thread tags received
  • Every X [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging quotes received
  • Every X [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging mentions received
  • Every X [DBTech] vBQuiz quizzed created
  • Every X [DBTech] vBQuiz quizzed completed
• Adjust time stamp format
• Per-Usergroup "Can PM" permission

(Pro) Global Custom Commands

• Create custom commands that anyone can use via the AdminCP
• Prevents users from creating commands with the same shortcut
• Great for "canned responses"

(Pro) Per-User Shoutbox Toggle

• New UserCP option to turn off the entire shoutbox
• Hides it completely from all pages

(Pro) Per-Instance Activity Triggers

• Choose what actions trigger new activity
  • Create Chat
  • Delete Shout
  • Fetch Sticky
  • Join Chat
  • Leave Chat
  • User Lookup
  • Save Sound Settings
  • Save Shout Styles
  • User Management
  • Chat Tab Switching
  • Un-idling
  • Toggle "Invisible Mode"

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[Spectre_Aidan]

purchse teh pro version for most of that stuff

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by keldagrim

I am having some issues with this as well. I installed it correctly, uploaded all the files and the .xml without problems and gave the folder the correct permissions. Then my site started running kind of slow and I began to get mysql erros forcing me to unistall the product. However I really enjoyed the features of this shoutbox and was wondering if you could maybe help me out. Thanks in advance!

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.3:

Invalid SQL:

               SELECT
                       userfield.*, usertextfield.*, user.*, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(passworddate) AS passworddate, user.languageid AS saved_languageid,
                       IF(displaygroupid=0, user.usergroupid, displaygroupid) AS displaygroupid,
                       language.phrasegroup_global AS phrasegroup_global,
                       language.phrasegroup_dbtech_vbshout AS phrasegroup_dbtech_vbshout,
                       language.phrasegroup_user AS phrasegroup_user,
                       language.phrasegroup_posting AS phrasegroup_posting,
                       language.phrasegroup_album AS phrasegroup_album,
                       language.phrasegroup_messaging AS phrasegroup_messaging,
                       language.options AS lang_options,
                       language.languagecode AS lang_code,
                       language.charset AS lang_charset,
                       language.locale AS lang_locale,
                       language.imagesoverride AS lang_imagesoverride,
                       language.dateoverride AS lang_dateoverride,
                       language.timeoverride AS lang_timeoverride,
                       language.registereddateoverride AS lang_registereddateoverride,
                       language.calformat1override AS lang_calformat1override,
                       language.calformat2override AS lang_calformat2override,
                       language.logdateoverride AS lang_logdateoverride,
                       language.decimalsep AS lang_decimalsep,
                       language.thousandsep AS lang_thousandsep

               FROM user AS user
               LEFT JOIN userfield AS userfield ON (user.userid = userfield.userid)
               LEFT JOIN usertextfield AS usertextfield ON (usertextfield.userid = user.userid) LEFT JOIN language AS language ON (language.languageid = IF(user.languageid = 0, 1, user.languageid))

               WHERE user.userid = 7;

MySQL Error   : Unknown column 'language.phrasegroup_dbtech_vbshout' in 'field list'
Error Number  : 1054
Request Date  : Wednesday, July 13th 2011 @ 12:35:36 PM
Error Date    : Wednesday, July 13th 2011 @ 12:35:36 PM
Script        : http://***************.net/home/vbshout.php
Referrer      : http://**************.net/home/forum.php
IP Address    :***************
Username      :
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

Try re-installing, looks like a broken install


Fillip

[Wizardjv]

Is there anyway I could get the info to change the layout without buying the pro version?? I dont wont all those extra options as far as I am concerned thats pretty much bloatware and overkill, no offense of course. I just want to move the shout below the shoutbox and not have that big ugly box...I would be willing to pay for this maybe 10 dollars at the most or could you at the least point me in the right direction??

[DragonByte Tech]

Unfortunately not, no


Fillip

[Wizardjv]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Unfortunately not, no


Fillip

Well, in my opinion your kinda missing out on an extra revenue stream. I am sure lots of people would pay a fee from what I am reading just to change the layout. I mean I understand keeping that for the pro version as it seems thats the most wanted feature, but thats kinda overpriced as far as paying that much just for a better layout. Otherwise nice mod thanks anyway

Also, question. What controls the default font size? I been looking for it but have yet to find it

[arrow816]

I am sorry but this is a great product.

It is just a shame that the creators do not have any common sence in regard to price.
Really you are losing out on a large revenue stream just because you are trying to be so greedy. vBShout Pro - Lifetime costing nearly $100 is just a rip off. Why would I pay nearly the same price I can get a vblicence at for an addon? Really common sence goes a long way.

Think of it like this. You make a lifetime contract $20 you would gain an amazing amount of income as more people would be willing to pay $20 for than $100. Now maybe you think yes but we earn more on $100 per pro license instead of $20. But here is the golden question will you get more licenses sold at $20 than at $100 and im 99.9% sure you would easily double your annual revenue. More so when you have to understand that the minute your pro version goes live with in a week there is a warez site that has it avaliable for download to people for FREE.

So do your self a favour and dont think that trying to be greedy bastards will get you any where in this time and age as more and more people will just go down to the nearest warez site get it for free and you will get what? NOTHING.

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Now to the problem i first noticed. You must be one of the only shoutboxs still out there that does not allow usergroup restricting and access. This is not in the lite or pro version and it is a real let down that I have no ability to control what user groups can post and what ones cant.

Next is the annoying resize box on chat impute. I dont want to give my users to option to play around with the size them come crying to me when they cant fix it.

Next is the inability to create chat rooms that can be usergroup restricted. aka an administrator or staff online chat. A good idea you sadly seem to have missed.

Next is the lack of overall control.

In the end. For a group that says this is not a hobbie but are livlyhood you seem to be doing hardly any better. I would expect from a group charging nearly $100 a bug free fully working better than any other shoutbox product. Instead of a shoutbox barly better than most other shoutboxs and that is only if you purchase the pro version with the lite version being no real improvment on the many free ones already.

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Ps if you think im talking out of my ass just send me a private message I can link you to 10 sites it took me 1 second to find containing clean nulled versions of your product fully working.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Wizardjv

Also, question. What controls the default font size? I been looking for it but have yet to find it

There is no option to control the default font size, however the Pro version has a per-user font size dropdown which controls the size of the display only (i.e. other users do not see larger shout font)

Originally Posted by arrow816

Now to the problem i first noticed. You must be one of the only shoutboxs still out there that does not allow usergroup restricting and access.

You are incorrect, this is a feature in the Lite version.

If you are running Suhosin on your server, you will not see the usergroup permissions form until you have created the instance and then click the Edit link afterwards. This is not something we are able to work around at this time

Originally Posted by arrow816

Next is the annoying resize box on chat impute. I dont want to give my users to option to play around with the size them come crying to me when they cant fix it.

This is a browser feature, it is nothing we are able to control unfortunately

Chrome and as of late Firefox has implemented this feature, it is not something we implemented.

Originally Posted by arrow816

Next is the inability to create chat rooms that can be usergroup restricted. aka an administrator or staff online chat. A good idea you sadly seem to have missed.

This is also incorrect, in the AdminCP you can create chat rooms that only certain usergroups can access, and any chat rooms you create via the /createchat command is also limited to only the people you invite.

Originally Posted by arrow816

Next is the lack of overall control.

I'm not sure I understand what you're referring to here, this is to my knowledge the most feature-rich shoutbox out there, even in the Lite version

If you would like to suggest some new features or new options that don't already exist, feel free to post that either here or (preferrably) on our website and we will take them into consideration for future versions


I'm not quite sure why you are trying to claim that features that do exist do not - have you actually used the shoutbox and looked into the AdminCP menus?

You may need to add yourself to the Super Administrators list in config.php (or give your account the Can Admin vBShout administrator permission) in order to see the AdminCP menu.



Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by arrow816

I am sorry but this is a great product.

It is just a shame that the creators do not have any common sence in regard to price.
Really you are losing out on a large revenue stream just because you are trying to be so greedy. vBShout Pro - Lifetime costing nearly $100 is just a rip off. Why would I pay nearly the same price I can get a vblicence at for an addon? Really common sence goes a long way.

Think of it like this. You make a lifetime contract $20 you would gain an amazing amount of income as more people would be willing to pay $20 for than $100. Now maybe you think yes but we earn more on $100 per pro license instead of $20. But here is the golden question will you get more licenses sold at $20 than at $100 and im 99.9% sure you would easily double your annual revenue. More so when you have to understand that the minute your pro version goes live with in a week there is a warez site that has it avaliable for download to people for FREE.

So do your self a favour and dont think that trying to be greedy bastards will get you any where in this time and age as more and more people will just go down to the nearest warez site get it for free and you will get what? NOTHING.

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Now to the problem i first noticed. You must be one of the only shoutboxs still out there that does not allow usergroup restricting and access. This is not in the lite or pro version and it is a real let down that I have no ability to control what user groups can post and what ones cant.

Next is the annoying resize box on chat impute. I dont want to give my users to option to play around with the size them come crying to me when they cant fix it.

Next is the inability to create chat rooms that can be usergroup restricted. aka an administrator or staff online chat. A good idea you sadly seem to have missed.

Next is the lack of overall control.

In the end. For a group that says this is not a hobbie but are livlyhood you seem to be doing hardly any better. I would expect from a group charging nearly $100 a bug free fully working better than any other shoutbox product. Instead of a shoutbox barly better than most other shoutboxs and that is only if you purchase the pro version with the lite version being no real improvment on the many free ones already.

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Ps if you think im talking out of my ass just send me a private message I can link you to 10 sites it took me 1 second to find containing clean nulled versions of your product fully working.

Thanks for the input on our business =)

The company is doing just fine as it is, and as a general rule we only solicit business advice from people who run successful software development/publishing companies, as people who don't tend not to understand the realities involved.

Just as a quick example - you claim that if we slashed out price by a fifth we would double our revenue, for this to happen we would have to sell 10 times more licenses. That means 10 times as much support, which means 10 times LESS time for updating products or creating new products - that would mean that within 3 months even if we were in fact making twice as much out of vBShout, we would be missing out on another 2 or 3 revenue streams, which would actually mean we LOSE money =).

Regarding Piracy - price isn't an issue for most people who pirate things. You can find pretty much any piece of software, music or movie pirated online. In addition you can find people illegally hosting mods given out for FREE here on vb.org - i'm pretty sure it doesn't get much cheaper than free.

Iain

[marianoblesa]

Please have lenguage spanish?

[DragonByte Tech]

I don't believe there's a Spanish translation available, sorry


Fillip