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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* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* 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

[KProjects]

Great mod - thanks! Installed!

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by GhettoTech

Pretty sure I was commenting on the mod, but whatever.. if you don't like the mod then you have no reason to further comment in this thread.. k thanks bye...

Anyways, is there any information on when the next version of this mod should come out?

There should be a new version on friday if all goes to plan.

Iain

[AURFSCAN]

Looking forward to the update.

Ive made some cosmetic changes to suit my forum (wall in tables)

Will the next update bring this out of beta? I see no problems with it.

[Dragaon]

There seems to be a inconsistent issue parsing bbcode, anyone else have this problem?

[Mr_Running]

Originally Posted by Dragaon

There seems to be a inconsistent issue parsing bbcode, anyone else have this problem?

Yes, because of the limited characters and not seeing the... / closing bbcode tags.

[AURFSCAN]

Originally Posted by Mr_Running

Yes, because of the limited characters and not seeing the... / closing bbcode tags.

You can adjust preview character length in admincp. Keep increasing the count until you find some sort of balance between a preview and displaying a full post.. up it a little, mines set at 300.. works good

[thecore762]

I already posted this @ dbtech but I wanted to share this with the other users @ vb.org since probably some of you guys don't visit their site.

With Live Wall
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120222_6T_3AQ34/
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120222_B0_3AQ35/

Without Live Wall
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120223_5S_3B357/
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120223_ZD_3B358/

Basically what I am saying by that is that there is at least 4 seconds page render time difference.
It's pretty bad, really bad for me.

This is an excellent plugin, hopefully there will be some improvements done.

Here is what I put in the settings:


Entries Per Page 10 (def 20)
Refresh Rate 60 (def 30)

Time Between Status Updates 15 (def 5)

[Mr_Running]

Originally Posted by AURFSCAN

You can adjust preview character length in admincp. Keep increasing the count until you find some sort of balance between a preview and displaying a full post.. up it a little, mines set at 300.. works good

Yes, I know thanks
I was only responding to answer the question.
Now, 300 may be a work around. If users are posting 300 or less.

I went looking and found this. :up:

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

This mod is aware of all BBCode that can be used in non-forum areas as per the vBulletin options. We have no further control over BBCode parsing.

Note that if the text between BBCode tags go over the preview limit, BBCode will not parse correctly.


Fillip

[blind-eddie]

The big question is will you create this for the loyal 3.8 series users?
I think I speak on behalf of most if not all 3.8 series users to say that we would really appreciate it.



Hit the to the left if you would appreciate this for use in the 3.8 series.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by blind-eddie

The big question is will you create this for the loyal 3.8 series users?
I think I speak on behalf of most if not all 3.8 series users to say that we would really appreciate it.

We may create a vB 3.8 version, but there are currently no plans to do so


Fillip