Miscellaneous Hacks - [DBTech] Forum Live Feed & User Wall v1 (vB4) [AJAX]

Forum Live Feed & User Wall lets you see a continuously updated feed of activities on the forum, with a powerful set of customisation options for sources of information.

Uses
If you've wished for a Facebook-like feed for your forum, this mod is for you.

This mod adds 2 distinct features to your site. First a live feed showing actions performed by everyone on the forum, from new threads and posts to things like new avatars or signatures, your members can customise their feed and keep up to date with everything that's going on, right as it happens.
Secondly every user also has their own wall that displays what they have been up to. This lets users see what their friends have been doing and join in!
With advanced privacy configuration options and configurable preview options for each content type, this mod compliments other modifications like InfoPanels and produces a more detailed and verbose feed of the happenings on the forum.


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* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!
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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com

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Translations available @ our forum
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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Complete Feature List

Lite

• Forum Sidebar block type
• Preview in Forum Sidebar
• Ability to turn off IMG tag parsing on both main pages and Sidebar
• Status updates (from Forum Sidebar or the Live Wall page)
• Content types for nearly all forum actions:
  • Posts
  • Threads
  • Avatar changes (Only if Avatars are stored in the file system!)
  • Signature picture changes (Only if Signature Pictures are stored in the file system!)
  • Username changes
  • Social Group discussion
  • Social Group discussion replies
  • Status Updates (From this mod)
  • vBLive Status Updates
  • vBArcade Scores
  • [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like: Button clicks for Posts
• Nobody / Registered Users / Contacts Only / Friends Only display options for each content type to control who you see feeds from
• Nobody / Registered Users / Contacts Only / Friends Only privacy options for each content type to control who can see your feeds
• Automatically refreshing via AJAX at controllable intervals

Pro

• Recent Entries page with more entries displayed, no auto refresh
• Ability to "favourite" stories and view them from their own page
• Comments system
  • Comment count in the main feed with link to comment thread
  • Ability to post comments in the comment thread
  • AJAX refreshed comment threads
  • Ability to delete your own/others comments with usergroup permissions
• Content types for nearly all forum actions:
  • Blog Posts
  • Blog Comments
  • User Notes
  • Visitor Messages
  • Profile Pictures

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[AURFSCAN]

Hi Fillip,

testing this and must say I like it very much.

I think the ability for the user to delete their status's is a must and displaying comments under/at bottom of post in thread would be great.



Also a fix for resizing images on wall

add to additional.css or dbtech_livewall.css

.blockrow div.livewall_preview img {
	
        max-width:600px;
}

[GhettoTech]

If a user uploads a picture or video, how does the feed react to it?

[DragonByte Tech]

It doesn't react at all, as there's no integration with the attachment system at the moment


Fillip

[GhettoTech]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

It doesn't react at all, as there's no integration with the attachment system at the moment


Fillip

Is this a planned addition down the road?

[DragonByte Tech]

It's not currently on the todo list, but that can always change


Fillip

[AURFSCAN]

mod/admin editable status's and comments needed with this for sure. When i think about it, comments posted via wall not really needed to be posted to posts in thread, its pretty good as is. Attachments on wall, that would be good.

[Alibass]

Demo pics look nothing like lite version, what are they from the pro version?

Not impressed with mod, what good is it to post a status update when you cant post a comment to it in the lite version.

Lite version looks nothing more than a chat board... looks like we are going to have to uninstall this one unless there are some decent updates coming forth in the next release.

[sticky]

Nothing in the feed for when people add or remove a friend?

[Mr_Running]

These guys are smart and are great developers.
Status will be worked on
I would like to see an option for it to works with the forums.
Posts in thread from Live Feed

Giving the user the options of the forum view or the Live Feed view by clicking the navbar!
Somewhere down the road maybe an option to turn of forum and just view the live feed.
Now we are talking dynamite ...with additional ongoing additional pages
Maybe a Pro feature.

Edit: Whoops did I say that...

[Mr_Running]

Originally Posted by sticky

Nothing in the feed for when people add or remove a friend?

I think vb still has issues (hooks) with friend.
but that would be cool