New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like v3 (vB5) [AJAX]

What it is: Advanced Thanks/Like mod is designed to cut down on spam and increase useful content in your forum by using a peer encouragement system - users thank/like each others posts, which can encourage the thanked person to post more great content.

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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php

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Feature List: Lite

Postbit stats: Shows how many button clicks a person has given, received etc in the postbit. Admins can determine what statistics can show in the postbit to control sizes etc.

Admin Permissions: Control things such as who can click buttons, require button clicks, what shows in postbit, what options can run concurrently, per forum permisions etc.

Notifications: Receive alerts when a member clicked on one of the buttons for one of your posts.

Feature List: Pro

Infinite Buttons: Ability to create new buttons to press! No longer do you need to be limited by Thanks / Like / Dislike.

User Postbit Config: Lets users decide what postbit stats they want to see.

Additional permissions: Un-click a button. Control how many stats show on the statistics page, set permissions per subforum.

Buttons in First Post Only: This allows you to only make the first post thankable. If you forum is based around news, releases or anything similar this will allow your users to easily see the quality of the thread in question.

Button Click Anonymity: This feature will be extremely helpful to forums who like the idea of a "dislike" button, but don't like the drama it brings. Now you can set certain buttons to be anonymous - no one will see who clicked.

Missing Feature List: Lite

Require a Button Click: Allows you to hide the content of a post, or hie an attachment, until the person clicks a button on the post.

Statistics: Shows the top 5 people for; Giving / Receiving button clicks.

Import Thanks: Import script to import "thanks" from Abe's [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack on vBulletin.org. It will work with both vB3 and vB4 versions of this mod.

Missing Feature List: Pro

Auto Collapse Posts: Collapses a post so it doesnt show up by using a formulae for button clicks of your choosing.

Post Colour Thresholds: Ever wanted an easy way for members to tell if a post is helpful or trash? Colour thresholds let you change the colour of posts depending on how many clicks of a button they receive. Members can now see at a glance whether or not a post is helpful, interesting or pointless.


Complete Feature List
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Thanks / Like / Dislike Buttons

• Fully integrated into the vBulletin 5 postbit footer
• Same style / functionality as the vBulletin Reputation / "Like" controls
• On-demand list of people who clicked a certain button
• Fully AJAX driven

Button Control

• Edit name and action text
• Turn off "Given" stats
• Turn off "Received" stats
• Ability to turn off buttons per Category

Notifications

• Forum notification
• Notifications contain direct link to the post in question

Maintenance

• Cleanup, removes any thanks / likes / dislikes from posts that no longer exists
• Recalculate, recalculates how many thanks / likes / dislikes a user should have
• Rebuild Statistics, ensures the Statistics table is correctly populated and its values are correct.

Search

• Filter entries by username, button, start date, end date
• Change number of entries per page
• Change sort order

Repair Cache

• Ensures the button / page router caches are updated

Front-End

• Profile tabs integration

Pro

UserCP Settings

• Hide postbit items per-button
• Turn off notifications

Button Control

• Create unlimited buttons to click
• Minimum posts required to click a button
• Per-usergroup setting to become immune to clicks of a button
• Per-usergroup setting whether who clicked a button is displayed
• Per-usergroup setting to allow disabling clicks of a specific button for a post
• Per-usergroup setting to allow removing a click of a button
• Limit button clicks per day
• Per-forum ability to set each button to only display in the first post
• Per-forum toggle of what buttons are enabled
• Turn off "Given" and "Received stats on a per-button basis

Search

• Ability to delete entries found in the Search interface
• Change number of entries per page
• Change sort order

Notifications

• Email notification, respects the receiving user's email settings
• Can be disabled on a per-button basis

Missing Feature List
Lite

• Front-End
  • Require button clicks to see content (whole post is hidden)
  • Require button clicks to see attachments
  • Each button can be set as "Default" for Attachments and Content. When posting via Quick Reply, the default button(s) will be set as Required
  • Top 5 Given / Received statistics for each button
  • Widget for recent Button Clicks
  • Hottest Threads / Posts page showing most clicked posts and threads

Pro

• Front-End
  • "Entry List" page; a browseable list of all button clicks
  • Hottest Threads / Posts has a date range filter
• AdminCP
  • Set more / less than 5 for the Given / Received statistics
  • Ability to auto-collapse posts using provided formula or input for your own using your custom buttons
  • Ability to create Post Colour Thresholds to highlight posts in different colours
  • (vB4) Choose what portions of the postbit should be coloured via the post colour thresholds.
  • Individual users now be excluded from using the mod

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• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[DragonByte Tech]

I can replicate exactly nothing of what you report, sorry

Could you please PM me with an FTP and AdminCP account?


Fillip

[mdawg]

Oh by the way the other issue which is even stranger is that no amount of recalculate click whatever will get the mod to give the ones who GAVE me the thanks/likes to update for them still stays at 0. (Which is the opposite of what bigbear was saying...on my end the giver gets no update no matter what I do.)

PM sent to you.

[bigbear83]

Thx for confirming mdawg!

Let me know what your fix was if you ever do get it resolved! Much appreciated

[DragonByte Tech]

I'll check it as soon as I can, thanks


Fillip

[mdawg]

bigbear Dragon will advise us. How about this issue? bigbear are you experiencing this issue too:

When I look at statistics of my username (which I am usergroup admin) next to a post, it shows the 11 thanks received 11 likes received,

but when I look at my statistics within a PM just received today, I see 0 0 0 0 for everything.

In other words the mod is showing different statistics for a user depending on whether you are viewing the stats within a thread at the forum, or within a PM thread. At least this is the way it is happening at this moment for me.

[bigbear83]

Originally Posted by mdawg

bigbear Dragon will advise us. How about this issue? bigbear are you experiencing this issue too:

When I look at statistics of my username (which I am usergroup admin) next to a post, it shows the 11 thanks received 11 likes received,

but when I look at my statistics within a PM just received today, I see 0 0 0 0 for everything.

In other words the mod is showing different statistics for a user depending on whether you are viewing the stats within a thread at the forum, or within a PM thread. At least this is the way it is happening at this moment for me.

^^ Yes sir! Confirmed!

I see this same exact thing happening on my 5.2.1 forum as well, nice catch!

Oh and I'm also having this same issue that you had reported on the other day as well-

1) Question, the PM that I received when someone clicked Thanks / Like for one of my posts was:

"Dear , I clicked Thanks for your thread: ___________________. The discussion is located at:_______"

Why does it send the message to , and not have my username there? Is there a setting for this?

Looks like you and I are pretty much seeing the same issues as far as this mod is concerned.

Thx for all the efforts here as always DBTech!

[DragonByte Tech]

A hotfix for the issue of clicking buttons corrupting the statistics have been added to the download here: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/store...like-vb5-beta/

You will need to run the maintenance action to re-count the clicks before it'll be fully working.

I'll update the files here at some point once I'm convinced all issues have been taken care of.


Fillip

[bigbear83]

Excellent, many thx for that fix DB Tech! That did the trick for me on 5.2.1 ... all good here now

[bigbear83]

Also, the other issues that mdawg pointed out earlier in this thread still exist for me but to be honest those are not too terribly important for me personally ... I can live without those being corrected ... definitely just needed to get the likes stats corrected within the postbit area which it has with your hotfix there. Mucho thx once again DB Tech!

[mdawg]

Yes this fix does address those issues.

I still have an uneasy feeling that this mod somehow slows down the database such that it takes a long time to access threads because of it, and also leads to "MySQL server has gone away" errors.

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE session SET `lastactivity`=1463368619,`styleid`=11,`languageid `=1
WHERE (`sessionhash` = '5143cb4b3ef57f7935d128fe1ccec984')
/**session**/;

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away

I will leave the mod running for now, but this is just the impression I get. Maybe I am wrong.