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[DBTech] vBShout v6 (vB5) [AJAX]
Version: 6.1.0a8, by DragonByte Tech DragonByte Tech is offline
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Category: Chat Modifications - Version: 5.2.x Rating:
Released: 10-10-2012 Last Update: 05-06-2016 Installs: 218
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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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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)

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vB should be held accountable for the lack of extensions and devs should be more considerate with extensions they have made for vB5....
Couldn't agree with you more. Personally, I am tired of the little hissy fits expressed by developers... it doesn't do me any good. Currently I am sitting on the second from last VB5 version and waiting for updates to the extensions I use.... I doubt that is going to happen.
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The plugin developers are in the same boat as you guys, no one should blame the plugin developers for a broke plugin because of a vBulletin 5 update. If you're not a developer, you can't understand how much work it can be to get it working again after an update. Especially since vBulletin 5 is basically still in its baby shoes in my opinion... and it is still evolving rapidly.

Regardless, there are barely any vBulletin 5 plugins because vBulletin decided to remove a major feature that affected the ability to develop vBulletin 5 plugins.

Not too long ago, they announced that they are re-implementing that major feature which could possible fix vBulletin 5 its reputation and introduce a bunch of awesome plugins again. Then it's just up to the plugin developers to port their vBulletin 4 plugins to vBulletin 5 and provide support.

Just a side question: did you actually buy the premium version of this product or did you only use the free version?
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Just a side question: did you actually buy the premium version of this product or did you only use the free version?
Yes. I purchase the fully functional versions with branding free licenses. Just to note, when going to one VB5 vendor I was told that I should consider Vbulletin's competitor Xenforo if I want to run 3rd party extensions. My point being... some of these developers have not only abandoned Vbulletin but they attempt to deter VB customers to the nearest competitor.

I understand the PHP hook system was detrimental to 3rd party extensions. Believe me, that is something many Xenforo users love to use to piss in the ear of VB owners.
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Ah alright that clears things up, yes I'd be a bit annoyed as well if I bought a premium product that doesn't work to my needs.
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they shouldn't be selling products that don't work and should refund customers that's borderline fraud
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they shouldn't be selling products that don't work and should refund customers that's borderline fraud
If they produce a product for an earlier version of vB5 (and state which version(s) for which the product was designed), and for some reason it doesn't work with a later vB5 version, why should that be considered their fault?
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If they produce a product for an earlier version of vB5 (and state which version(s) for which the product was designed), and for some reason it doesn't work with a later vB5 version, why should that be considered their fault?
Depends on what they mean when they charge for additional terms like 3 months 6 months 1 year for support or updates. Why would I pay more for future support if no updates other than the version available at the time are promised? Doesn't make sense.
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Hey all,

Firstly I would like to apologise for the lack of replies - we prefer support tickets created over @ our site as it is guaranteed these will not be missed, whereas sometimes we don't get notifications for threads here @ vBulletin.org. With over 100 releases, it's very difficult to keep up to date with every thread here

Secondly, we have no intention of stopping support for our existing vB5 products. As far as I'm aware, there are no outstanding issues if you follow the instructions Internet Brands provided for correcting their "broken modification module" issue.
Further to that, that issue (which I linked multiple times in the past) was for me personally the straw that killed my motivation to work on vB5. This is my personal opinion and is in no way, shape or form indicative of the policies or plans of DragonByte Technologies Ltd.

At this time, it's my personal opinion that we should wait and see how the hook system ends up working before we dedicate additional development resources to vB5. Internet Brands have in the past shown a blatant disregard for modification developers, as evidenced by the fact that vB5 was released as Gold in February 2013 after over a year of feedback from us and other modification developers that the system was 100% inadequate and insufficient, and we are still waiting for the completed hooks system to be done. Surely you can understand our frustration

This entire post, except for the parts where I state otherwise explicitly, is my personal opinion and is not reflective of the company as a whole.

It is the policy of DragonByte Technologies Ltd. to continue to provide fixes for reported bugs and compatibility with newer versions of vBulletin 5, however since vB5 is still very much in a state of flux (as opposed to vB3 and vB4 which are considered very much stable at this point), we ask for your patience if it turns out a new vB5 version breaks our products.

Hopefully this has clarified a few things. If you still have questions regarding our policies or our plans for vB5, the best place to get in touch would be our "Contact Us" form here: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/contactus.php

Thanks!


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On my forum , that module doesn't work ..
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On my forum , that module doesn't work ..
For further information, this user is running vB5.1.10. I tried setting up instances and chat rooms, but didn't get anywhere. I have advised this user, based on skimming through this thread, that this product does not work on vB5.1.10, and seems to work only up to early patch levels of vB5.1.9. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
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