New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging v3 (vB4)

Advanced @User Tagging: What is it?

DragonByte Technologies is proud to present [DBTech] Advanced @User Tagging.

The @user Tagging mod is designed to increase activity on your forum by allowing members to mention each other in posts when talking about them.
This is done in a very easy way, very similar to how Twitter mentions people. We use @ ; as the tags, so for instance you could say:
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This new mod from @Dragonbyte Tech; is pretty cool.
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The ?@DragonByte Tech;? Will become a link to the DragonByte Tech users profile, it will also inform DragonByte Tech they had been mentioned, and link to the relevant thread/post via a new area in the profile section, as well as a new tab in the shoutbox.

It also allows members to ?tag? the thread for specific other members by inputting their usernames in the tag box above the posts of the thread.

This is a great way to increase your forum activity with no extra admin input required ? people will start to mention posts/threads to their friends, which will increase the amount of posting. This is especially useful of forums which have an international contingent (so threads posted in during the night for some of your members don't go overlooked) or forums which have a lot of posts/threads each day ? again to make sure that a post a person might want to read doesn't get lost in the crowd.

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

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Major Features
Twitter-style @ "Mentions": Typing @username produces a "Mention" that will alert the user to your post, as well as link to their profile.

Quote Alerts: Members you quote will be alerted, ensuring that discussions can continue smoothly even if they left the thread.

Profile Integration: Displays Mentions, Tags and Quotes in profile tabs for quick overview of a member's activities within the mod.


Complete Feature List
Lite

Emails:

• Email alerts for all features
• Globally disable emails for any of the features

General Features:

• Ability to disable Thread Tag list entirely for guests
• Globally disable any of the features

General:

• Statistics Page: Top X Thread Tagged, Top X Mentioned (Lite locked to Top 5)
• "Mention" alerts: Type @username to mention someone, and link to their profile. Email & forum notification
• Quote alerts: Email & forum notification
• Tag an user in a thread to alert them to the thread via a box above threads
• View list of tagged users above threads, with link to see all tags
• Profile Tabs: Lists both incoming and outgoing mentions, quotes and thread tags
• Shoutbox Integration: New Shoutbox Tab to list incoming mentions & tags
• Control how many users to display in inline tag list
• Turn statistics page on & off
• Control BBCode for mentioned usernames (Underline only)
• Control [DBTech] vBShout integration
• Turn features on & off per category
• Globally disable email alerts
• Ability to set maximum mentions per post (default: unlimited)

Pro

• Hash Tags:
  • One-click (un)subscribe to hash tags via the post list page
  • Clicking a hashtag shows all posts tagged with that word.
  • (vB4) Forum Sidebar widget with Recent and Trending hash tags
  • Control number of Recent / Trending hash tags
  • Control time span for Recent / Trending hash tags (x Hours/Days/Weeks)
  • Control stat weights given to individual users using the hash tag, and number of uses in total (for the Trending score)
  • Control display of number of users, number of uses and trending score
  • Deny usergroups access to sidebar block
  Emails:
  • Per-user email disable for any of the 4 features
  General Features:
  • Ability to Mention and Thread Tag whole usergroups by typing their name. Per-UG permission to disable Mentions / Thread Tags for this UG.
  General:
• Ability to tag all your friends by checking a checkbox instead of typing out usernames
• Ability to tag and mention all usergroups by typing out the usergroup name, permissions control what UGs can be mentioned and tagged
• Turn off alerts from everyone except friends
• Hide forum notifications for individual features
• Turn off email alerts for individual features
• Hash tags, Twitter-style, add a topic to your post, sends notification to subscribed users
• (vB4) Forum Sidebar block with Recent & Trending hash tags
• (vB4) Works with the Mobile Style (4.1.12+)
• Turn tag list off
• Control number of users displayed on Top X Stats
• Hide "@" on mentions
• Additional BBCode (Bold, Italic, Highlight) for mentions
• Exclude usergroups from features
• Exclude users from features

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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

[DragonByte Tech]

When the mod is disabled, its code does not run - there's literally no way for the copyright line to be added when the mod is disabled.

Add that to the fact that we have never heard of this issue before, you may have a mod conflict.

Please try disabling all other mods.

Fillip

[btedition]

Hi, I installed this perfectly on 4.2.0.

Where would the user get the notification if I may ask? I tagged myself in a test post but I didn't receive any notification. Is it supposed to work like that?

Thanks in advance

[psychonikeo]

Hi,

We ran into a really odd problem all of the sudden, not sure what happened.
If someone mentions someone with @, a semicolon automatically appears behind someones username. They still get the notification, but the name is not clickable anymore. It's just plain text.

@username;

<-- that's how it looks.

When I set this mod to require a semicolon to work, it will look like this

@username;;

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So no matter what, the mention tags wrapped around a username will add the ;

The only changes we've made recently were fixing BBCode in quotes. Any idea what could have happend, it worked perfect from day 1.

[btedition]

Originally Posted by psychonikeo

Hi,

We ran into a really odd problem all of the sudden, not sure what happened.
If someone mentions someone with @, a semicolon automatically appears behind someones username. They still get the notification, but the name is not clickable anymore. It's just plain text.

@username;

<-- that's how it looks.

When I set this mod to require a semicolon to work, it will look like this

@username;;

.
So no matter what, the mention tags wrapped around a username will add the ;

The only changes we've made recently were fixing BBCode in quotes. Any idea what could have happend, it worked perfect from day 1.

Which vB version are you running?

I didn't have this problem, I also did insert the BBCode into newreply, and newthread templates so people don't have to type the "@" manually. They can just click on the icon and then {mention} tags will appear. I find my way a lot easier.

Take a look at this, this example is from our forum which is vB 4.2.0
http://bmwclubuae.com/forum/showthre...l=1#post138879

[psychonikeo]

We run 4.2.2
And it was fine for weeks, bit since yesterday when someone uses @ or mention tags, it just adds the ; at the end of a username.
Again, the user still gets a notification but it's not clickable anymore.

[psychonikeo]

And also, we have one user with a really long name. Tagging him won't work.
Is there any way to increase the maximum amount of characters?

[btedition]

Originally Posted by psychonikeo

And also, we have one user with a really long name. Tagging him won't work.
Is there any way to increase the maximum amount of characters?

I am an end user like yourself actually, I tried helping you but I guess the developer himself needs to respond to this. Why not quit using "@" and use the BBCode like the link that I posted to you?

[psychonikeo]

I tried that, but even with mention tags it still adds the ; at the end!
Thanks for your help though, much appreciated.

DragonByte Tech: We also use your SEO tool (bought it), could that be the problem?

[Thangvip9x]

@DragonByte Tech
Can you fix it?
Please search Google with content "vBulletin Advanced User Tagging Cross Site Scripting"
Thank you very much
If you don't fix, all sites use this mod will be attacked from attacker
I disabled this mod
Please fix immediately
Please click like button

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Thangvip9x

@DragonByte Tech
Can you fix it?
Please search Google with content "vBulletin Advanced User Tagging Cross Site Scripting"
Thank you very much
If you don't fix, all sites use this mod will be attacked from attacker
I disabled this mod
Please fix immediately
Please click like button

There has been no new exploits that I can find. Additionally, the exploits (patched over 5 months ago) did not affect the Lite version.

If there is a new exploit, please PM me the link.


Fillip