Show Thread Enhancements - [DBTech] AJAX Threads v1 (vB3)

AJAX Threads: What is it?
AJAX Threads brings your threads alive, making them automatically refresh without needing to reload the page.

Uses

AJAX Threads is the ideal product for forums with busy threads or which deal with any sort of "event" be that TV shows, sports or game releases!
AJAX Threads allows you to make topics "auto update" without the user having to refresh. This can give performance benefits when applied to threads which receive a lot of refresh requests, and can increase user participation.
Topics can be turned live by admins individually, or you can set whole forums to have their threads be live automatically. You can even allow only VIP usergroups to have threads refresh automatically to increase subscription numbers.

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Differences between Pro and Lite

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

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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 Features:

Automatically Refresh Threads: Users will now see new posts in "real time" without having to refresh the page

Performance Benefits: If your forum receives lots of refresh requests on threads being posted in often this can put a lot of strain on your server - AJAX Threads will greatly reduce server resources used in those situations by refreshing only the minimum information required.

Total Control: You can set threads individually or per forum. You can set particular usergroups to receive the benefit, and you can even have it apply automatically to popular threads!

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Complete Feature List (Lite)
* vBOption: Enable Automatic Updates
* vBOption: Refresh Interval
* vBOption: Idle Timeout
* vBOption: Automatic Un-Idle
* vBOption: Enable Information Bar (Tells users how often the thread refreshes, whether they're idle, and how to un-idle, etc)
* vBOption: Maximum Shown Posts
* Ability for users to manually refresh threads if Automatic Updates are disabled (cannot refresh more often than Refresh Interval regardless)
* Ability for users to manually un-idle themselves if automatic updates are enabled and the Idle Timeout is reached
* Per-usergroup setting to determine if automatic updates are enabled
* Per-usergroup setting to determine if manual updates are enabled
* Per-category setting to determine if automatic updates are enabled
* Per-category setting to determine if manual updates are enabled
* "Live" image on forumdisplay for threads that have automatic or manual updates enabled
* Posts fetched by AJAX Threads are marked as read
* Per-usergroup "duration" before a thread goes "idle".


Complete Feature List (Pro)
* vBOption: Minimum Replies
* Per-forum setting to determine if automatic updates are enabled
* Per-forum setting to determine if manual updates are enabled
* Per-thread setting to determine if automatic updates are enabled
* Per-thread ability for administrators with the "Manager" permission to override forum / usergroup settings and either enable or disable automatic updates

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[DragonByte Tech]

I fixed IE by restoring it to default settings, and I am unable to reproduce any issues with AJT in IE9.

Do you have the IE7 compatibility header turned on? If so, try turning that off. It should be somewhere in Style & Language Options I think.

Fillip

[Wonksta]

Wonderful!

Now IE9 is receiving posts without the need to refresh. It was stuck in IE7 Developer Mode.

However I am still sadly seeing duplication on Chrome everynow and then AND randomly when sending a post via Chrome in succession some posts won't actually go through to the server, it looks like it get's sent but doesn't appear in either browsers.

Update
It seems to stop fetching New Posts after I try to send the 11th post. The interesting thing my limit on number of posts per page is 10! So I think the script is getting confused on page change when the 10 is reached?

[DragonByte Tech]

When the "posts per page" limit is reached, it crops the old posts from the display

At least, that's how it works on my test install

If you want me to look into the issues specific to your forum then could you please PM me with FTP info and an AdminCP account with at least Can Admin Styles?


Fillip

[Wonksta]

Alright further update on the issue.

If I am replying via IE9 and monitoring the thread on Chrome it doesn't stop fetching new replies after 11 or 12 replies it just keeps going and going in Chrome as long as I keep making new posts via IE9 Chrome fetches them nicely.

This leads me to believe that it's another issue isolated to Internet Explorer

[DragonByte Tech]

Without the requested info I am sadly unable to assist further


Fillip

[Wonksta]

Alright looking into the network behaviour while its fetching posts and after IE stops fetching posts after 12 or so fetched posts.

This is how Network looks like while IE9 is fetching posts OK:


This is how Network looks like once IE9 stops fetching posts and updating the thread:



Not easy for me to hand out FTP and Admin as I've got pretty much everything bound to my IP and all that security stuff.

[DragonByte Tech]

AJAX Threads v1.1.1:
Fix: Using "Newest First" post order had multiple deep-rooted issues
Fix: Posts deleted when hitting the "max posts" setting should now behave more consistently
Change: (Lite) There is now an option to disable the HiVelocity Hosting link if you do not wish to support DragonByte Tech by having it displayed.

Fillip

[Wonksta]

Recommend putting in some kind of safety device to prevent Mod users from setting Post cutoff number lower then vBulletin's default Posts per Page if set lower then vBulletin's Max Post per page it gobbles up the first pages.

Had a lot of support questions in the morning when I set 9 Posts Cutoff when vBulletin max per page is 10 :P

[DragonByte Tech]

We'll take it into consideration for future versions


Fillip

[citeman]

Feature request posted - I think it'll really help us big boards include this feature.