Miscellaneous Hacks - Live Topic - AJAX

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Live Demo:

Live Topic 1.07b Demo (you must be logged in, and the topic must be "live")


Videos: 1.00b 1.06b

watch the damn videos... ^_^

Description:

This product is different from anything you have seen before, it raises the bar for forums. It will make your forums much more interactive, and also reduce server load.

Technical Details:

If a thread has been posted in X seconds then its now Live, if other users are viewing the Live topic and are on the last page they will experience a clean ajax experience while talking to other members. Once the thread is older than X seconds its no longer Live and it will now act like a normal thread. Also if a user edits one of their posts that's inside of the thread, it will be updated too so there is no longer a reason to ever have to refresh.

There is also logic for the viewer, the viewer of the thread has to be in an active state to see responses. An active user state is determined upon the users actions, if no actions were made in X seconds then the user is marked as inactive.

Also you may wonder why this could save your server bandwidth and CPU. If a user is refreshing to talk to another members the queries on a normal thread load are way more intense than the ajax call that this modification makes. So if you have 5 people talking to each other none of them have to refresh the page, all they are doing is simple page requests and one intense request when there has actual change.

You can test Live Topic with two users, you will see how amaizing this is... And probably spontaneously combust.

Found a bug? Want to request a feature?

Live Topic - Project Manager

Installation:

This is take less than 3 minutes to install, takes longer to notice its amazing feature. (you need multiple people to be active in the same topic)

Works With (FF2, FF3, IE6, IE7, IE8, SF2, SF3, CHROME):

vBulletin [3.7.4] (have not tested it with other 3.7.X versions)

for vBulletin [3.8.X] go here

INCOMPATIBLE HACKS:

• USC
• PassiveVid (1.x)
• gXboxLive
• Topic (incl. Blog) of the Week

Versions:

1.04b

fixes

javascript error for guests
fixed live topic activation (first poster to raise a dead topic)

changes

auto quick reply focus after post

1.05b

fixes

css flaw

js error for unsupported browsers (random)

fixed chrome issue

ideas

edit notification - thanks to nso

rebuilding some of the original logic to hopefully prevent product conflicts

1.06b

fixes

fixed a little javascript issue that had to do with displaying posts

uses GPC cleaner now

changes

limit the number of ajax posts on the live topic (example 40) and fade them away.

changed the way the hooks are used

tightened up everything a bit

1.07b

fixes

fixed a bug where the live topic notification always making an ajax call

changes

support user ignore list
changed the way the javascript logic worked (hopefully there are less compatibly issues) added support for IE6 and IE8

1.10
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{Mark As Installed}
{Don't forget to vote for Modification of the Month}

[furst]

Just out of curiosity, what is it that makes it not work in IE6?

[anasota]

Originally Posted by Coders Shack

not sure if you read the post above your but it states that IE6 will never be supported and IE8 is also not supported (it will be soon)

ok
i see now
thank you

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

[high]* TheLastSuperman disables and uninstalls mod while awaiting authors suggestions or fix please?[/high]

Would not work in 3.7.3 any plans or? sorry to bump but I did not see a reply....

[GigaSb]

INSTALLED & MOTM good job

[sdsvtdriver]

Originally Posted by sdsvtdriver

I just went through that process and this is the one that conflicts:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ight=gxboxlive

I'm not sure why that is. Any ideas?

^^^

[ptwiggens]

I just upgraded one of my forums to 3.7.5 and now my Quick Edit is not working. It gives the AJAX loading sign and just hangs on it and never actually loads.

When I disable livetopic, the AJAX Quick Edit works fine.

Any ideas?

[Coders Shack]

conflicting modifications.

[furst]

Ever since installing this my board has been constantly crashing. I've been forced to repair/optimize my tables 5-6 times now. It could be that Cyb's updated Top Stats is doing it, but I doubt it. I'm going to have to uninstall this mod for now. I'll report back to see if the problems go away after that or not.

[Coders Shack]

would like to have server info on your board.

(size and stuff, avg users, shared or dedicated ..)

[l3it3r]

Doesn't work so far... I see the 'live post thing... but... Yeah, no worky.

GREAT idea, not working yet though