Miscellaneous Hacks - Live Topic

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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)

Upgrade:

[1.01b to 1.XXb] Uninstall the product, then reinstall it. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

[1.02b to 1.03b] Overwrite files, upgrade product (dont install product)

[1.03b to 1.04b] Uninstall the product, then reinstall it. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

[1.04b to 1.05b, 1.05b to 1.06b,1.06b to 1.07b] Upgrade the product. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

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

vBulletin [3.8.X]

get the vBulletin [3.7.X] version here

INCOMPATIBLE HACKS:

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

Versions:

1.01b
1.02b

fixes

safari 2 support
safari 3 support
google chrome support
added live topic icon on new posts page
fixed security issue, strongly suggest upgrading!

changes

added live edit (to avoid a performance hit i had to add two rows to two tables in the database)
added external style sheet

1.03b

fixes

fix double post
phrase notification
fixed an edit bug for people with table prefixes

changes

ability to change interval in ACP

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

changes

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

hmm

{Mark As Installed}

{Don't forget to vote for Modification of the Month}

[Kolbi]

do you want to share it?

email me it

[ctimes]

I would not mind throwing in a few bucks for a solution

[Dave84311]

I've been having issues with livetopic for the past week, with no solution.

After changing servers, and moving databases... Live Topic stopped working. The little livetopic image on the thread title shows up, but the threads never update when some one posts in it. You have to refresh for new posts to show up. Any reason for this?

I've installed and reinstalled a couple times, with no luck.

[Hicksatpd]

It doesn't seem to work for me.

When I open in IE8, I get an error, and it is as follows:


Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0C)
Timestamp: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:17:57 UTC


Message: Object required
Line: 2
Char: 1840
Code: 0
URI: /clientscript/livetopic.js

I have no idea how to go into livetopic.js and find exactly the one thousand eight hundred fortieth character. How do I do that?

[BirdOPrey5]

There are text editors for programmers that will tell you the character number you are at, google for 'advanced text editor' or such... off hand I don't know of one that does for sure though... I use Notepad2 but it has line numbers, not by character.

[ctimes]

OK, so it's really starting to look like this is just not going to happen. Could someone who has got it working on vb4 please maybe point us in the right direction.

[jesus likes pie]

Originally Posted by Lynne

Guys, enough of this. The developer has not given permission to have a vB4 version of this mod posted. In fact, someone even said he was working on it himself. Anyway, a vB4 version of this mod that isn't written/approved by the developer is not going to get posted in here. End of discussion really.

I don't see the problem if it's completely re-written.

+1 for vb4 version

[bacemail]

This mod is great, but I had to uninstall it. My server CPU increased - causing me to exceed my host's monthly limit.

[sticky]

Any way we can get this for VB 4?

[BigJohnny]

this seems to work well but I noticed an issue where a user edited a live topic and and his post disappeared. His post was the first post, and vanished when it was edited, leaving only the replies. a refresh sorted out the problem.