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.
I only see two bug reports and one feature request listed there and I don't think any are from you.
it was a question asking if Passive Video was compatable with Live Topic. Went back several times to see if there was an answer posted, even PM'd the coder. I even paid the $5.00 for the Passive Video, but have not yet tried it for fear of any issues. I really like LT and the first thing I check when I install new Mods is if it still works and if it doesn't I remove the offending Mod. I am a big supporter of LT, and it is my favorite Mod, bar none.
Lynne, again, no offence but this is listed as a *supported* mod, therefore I am sure the author not only follows this thread, but is grateful for the bug report - in fact probabally as grateful as we all are that he took the effort to make it in the first place.
This bug was so annoying, and seemingly random - myself and 4 moderators tested this for hours until we found the criteria gto reproduce... that allowed us to think of it as non-randomly occuring and report back here.
I am sure the author will support this in this thread and will be pleased this has finally been pinned down.
Since v1.0.7b it stopped working in our forum :-(. Earlier versions were working correctly (except too high load for our server). In forum it shows picture of live topic (so it means that mod is really enabled), but new posts are not appearing in threads, only after refresh of page. When I enable this mod, IE7 shows in every thread in Status Bar message "Error on page." Details are:
Line: 4910
Char: 148
Error: Unterminated string constant
Code: 0
URL: just URL of specific showthread.php page
In showthread.php line 4910 is last line of whole file where is only: ?>
When I disable mod, error message disappear. Any ideas to solve this issue please? vBulletin v3.8.2 (v3.8.1 was the same issue).
Upgraded from 1.04b to 1.07b last night, now users (and me) are are experiencing the bug where our own posts submitted via quick reply don't show up, but other peoples do. Anyone successfully downgrade?
Upgraded from 1.04b to 1.07b last night, now users (and me) are are experiencing the bug where our own posts submitted via quick reply don't show up, but other peoples do. Anyone successfully downgrade?
Set the Option "Maximum Visible Posts" of the Mod to 1000 because that Feature has that Bug, until Coders Shack can Share with Us a New Update with a Solution to it.
(Coders Shack Explained that Temporary Solution Several Times on this Thread).