Chat Modifications - [DBTech] vBShout v6 (vB5) [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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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php

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Professional version available @ www.DragonByte-Tech.com/forum
Priority support for Lite version is handled at the Developers Website.

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

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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.

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)

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.

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.


Professional Only benefits:

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

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

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.


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.
• 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.
• AdminCP
  • 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
    • 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

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
• High-level logging logs everything
• 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
• Adjust time stamp format
• Per-Usergroup "Can PM" permission

Missing Features List

Major Lite Features

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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


Lite

• Archive
  • View list of all Shouts in the system
  • Top X Shouters
  • Shoutbox Statistics
  • Search Archive
    • Search by
      • Phrase
• AdminCP
  • Ban / Silence management in Edit User

Pro

• 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
• 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
• 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

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This mod displays a one-line copyright notification in the footer of all pages which includes:

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

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Moderator Edit:

Due to changes in the Javascript Structure in vBulletin 5.6.4, this addon was not working. Below are steps to resolve this issue:

Shout is looking for a .js file. But it isn't here.

1. go to : https://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jque...ry.tmpl.min.js
2. copy code and paste it in notepad
3. save it as : jquery.tmpl.min.js
4. copy via ftp to ---> board/js/jquery
5. Reload page and shout is working ( VB 5.6.4)

[mdawg]

As the vbulletin versions have upgraded, yes, this vbShout hack has had other issues, but neither this nor any Dragon Bytes app ever worked perfectly with vbulletin 5.

As far as what version is mentioned in the header, this does not mean that the hack does not work with newer versions, just refers to what version of vbulletin was in effect at the time of the latest version of the hack. Also, with Dragon Bytes they are constantly doing "hot fixes" where they update the hack but update neither the version number of the hack nor the vbulletin version number referred to in the header, so as far as Dragon Bytes is concerned, that vbulletin version mentioned in the header means less than nothing.

[Master Of Unive]

Originally Posted by mdawg

As the vbulletin versions have upgraded, yes, this vbShout hack has had other issues, but neither this nor any Dragon Bytes app ever worked perfectly with vbulletin 5.

As far as what version is mentioned in the header, this does not mean that the hack does not work with newer versions, just refers to what version of vbulletin was in effect at the time of the latest version of the hack. Also, with Dragon Bytes they are constantly doing "hot fixes" where they update the hack but update neither the version number of the hack nor the vbulletin version number referred to in the header, so as far as Dragon Bytes is concerned, that vbulletin version mentioned in the header means less than nothing.

False.
The version in header is exactly maximum version in which the product would work well.
That means this product only supports vB 5.2.x, any versions above it are not guaranteed. Also you have no right to complain about free mod. This vB5 just do not support writing modifications, so you can't expect developers spend time and money to update it for free. Would you do it for free? If you paid for the mod you can ask for it on their site.

I'm no related to DBTech, but I just find it amusing to see people keep complaining about mods aren't working for their vB5 without understanding that vB5 do not have many mods. You choose vB5 and you have to live with it, or paid for custom work.

[In Omnibus]

Originally Posted by Master Of Unive

False.
The version in header is exactly maximum version in which the product would work well.
That means this product only supports vB 5.2.x, any versions above it are not guaranteed. Also you have no right to complain about free mod. This vB5 just do not support writing modifications, so you can't expect developers spend time and money to update it for free. Would you do it for free? If you paid for the mod you can ask for it on their site.

I'm no related to DBTech, but I just find it amusing to see people keep complaining about mods aren't working for their vB5 without understanding that vB5 do not have many mods. You choose vB5 and you have to live with it, or paid for custom work.

dbTech left several of my clients stuck when they abandoned this project. When you spend time and your clients spend money to have a specific product and then the product for which they paid is no longer viable because the developers don't want to deal with software-specific issues it means you have to come up with alternative solutions for your clients at your own expense. If dbTech didn't want to deal with the issues this software presents they never should have developed products for it in the first place. They didn't develop several products first and then discover the software had issues. They knew the software had issues and developed products regardless, products for which customers paid in many cases. At least one prominent vBulletin 5 customer who spent a small fortune on the product and modifications recently abandoned it for a competing product, in no small part because the premium dbTech modifications he purchased do not work as advertised.

So, when you tell us that we should not complain about "free" modifications that do not work I tell you we have every right to complain. If you leave customers stuck over personal issues over which you have full control you deserve a negative reputation. Even refunding the money of paid clients does not resolve their need for functional products, which is specifically why they paid for those products in the first place. A lot of customers were left stuck and people like myself were left to explain to my clients why products I once recommended highly were a complete waste of their money. Try following that conversation with one about how they need to spend more money for another product or other products.

I can hardly wait until they get their knickers in a knot over the software they seem to be currently in love with and abandon those customers. It's going to happen. They just want to crank out half-assed products as quickly as possible for volume sales. Once the sales slow or stop they move on to the next product. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

[Master Of Unive]

In some aspect I could understand your frustration, but it seems DBTech is not the only party you need to blame because major responsiblity is of VB itself for not support developing mods.

Again, this is a lite (free) version so they have no right to complain, if you paid for it you can tell that on their site, they would give you more accurate answer. But personally, I don't think you can ask too much with couples of bucks because develop a major mod consume time and money upto hundreds or thousands. So If I was in their case that can only sell several licenses, I would drop it anyway. It goes the same for the others in software industry, because it's not all their fault but the platform itself. At least they guarantee it works for 5.2.x so as long as you don't upgrade, you're fine. But once you do an upgrade, it's no longer their responsibility to update major version.

But I agree with you that it is their fault for release a Paid version in a software they don't follow anymore, so I only talk about Lite version here. Then again, VB have bigger responsiblity, and you will need to live without free mods, or cheaper mod from now on.

[mdawg]

Master of Unive you are apparently not aware that DragonBytes does "hot fix" updates constantly, including many after their header was written, nor do you perhaps understand what this means. Looking back to my direct communications with Dragon Bytes, looks like they supplied me with a hot fix updated version of this and their other hacks as recently as May 2017. After they supplied these to me, they uploaded them here at vbulletin.org as well, without updating their header or their version numbers of their hacks. In May 2017, vbulletin was, I believe (feel free to do the research for me), at version 5.3.x Dragon Bytes has a complicated rationale for using hot fixes instead of updating the version number, again, feel free to message them to inquire on this too. As well their paid versions are currently the same as the ones posted here, taking into account the hot fixes.

Anyway, you are writing a lot here without saying much. Thanks for your input.

[Master Of Unive]

Originally Posted by mdawg

Master of Unive you are apparently not aware that DragonBytes does "hot fix" updates constantly, including many after their header was written, nor do you perhaps understand what this means. As well their paid versions are currently the same as the ones posted here, taking into account the hot fixes.

Anyway, you are writing a lot here without saying much. Thanks for your input.

Do you even know what hotfix mean? You don't. Hotfix is a fix for serious bugs without changing the version number. It is not regular fix or cumulative update. Hotfixes have nothing to do with major updates, which is what you are asking for. Stop saying what you don't know. The fact that they keep release hotfix for an outdated product proves their responsiblity to not let customers in danger for bugs. But release a new version is a lot more.

Well, I'm write quite a lot because it is somehow painful to watch people keep asking for mods in a software not suitable for mod. Perhaps I should stop now. So good luck.

[mdawg]

Unfortunately, your input is so off topic and incorrect, that it would be a waste of our time to further discuss this with you. You didn't even read my entire post, and quoted just part of it. Thanks anyway. Your effort is appreciated.

But, you are absolutely correct that vb 5 changes so rapidly that it is hard to keep up with working hacks. However, my hack,
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=325277
has kept up and still works fine with the latest vb 5 version as far as I know. And even though my header states 5.2.6 my hack works fine with 5.4.1

This one, too, works with the latest vb 5 versions:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=319606

so it is quite possible to keep up!

[Master Of Unive]

Because I had quoted your post before you made an edit?

But you are right that furthur reply is a waste of time as you never look at the truth and apparently do not know the struggle to maintain major mods (2 you mentioned are not) in an environment which does not support it and has extremly minor user base.

Oh but if you want to see what means responsibility then here I've found a good explaination by DBTech coder
https://theadminzone.com/threads/vbu...5#post-1108100

Oh, they removed old tracker as well as old issues.
http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBV-1300 This one is about third party login which requested in 2013 and only got a look in 2017. 4 years? And you want developers to keep waiting for them 4 years?
They removed it or hide it in the new tracker. I know because the issue was in my watched list.

[xxfullclipxx]

why has this mod not been closed since it dont work anymore unless youre using a old version of the software ?

[HG-ILUSION]

Hi, there are a issue with non english language.
If I'm using the default language I can see the shout time fine but if I'm using another language like spanish in the time I see H:i

Any solution?