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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What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* 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/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]

Advanced User Tagging v3.2.2

Changes to Existing Features:

(Pro) Profile Settings

• Disabling features via the AdminCP will now also remove the corresponding settings from the UserCP

Bug Fixes:

• Disabling the vBShout integration would not remove the Shoutbox tabs.
• The Profile block would display a database error if the new @OP: feature was used.

Fillip

[joeychgo]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Could you please re-post this as a bug @ our site, so I can track this issue properly? Thanks

Providing support @ vBulletin.org is much, much more difficult than @ our site. For that reason, we let all our vB.org users know in the first post of every thread that we offer priority support @ our site.

Thank you, no. I had bought a license even but have now removed the mod from my system. You wouldn't have a business if not for vb.org, so I have to question why it is too hard for you to support things here. Keep the license I bought, I have zero use for it.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by joeychgo

You wouldn't have a business if not for vb.org, so I have to question why it is too hard for you to support things here.

I'd be more than happy to answer this for you

When someone posts a response to a thread on this site, I receive an email notification ONLY if I have already visited the site and/or the thread in question since the previous post. For that reason, let's say someone posts a reply going "Works for me and does what I need, thanks " and then someone posts a reply going "I'm receiving a DB error saying 'missing phrasegroup dbtech_usertag', it's flooding my inbox, could you please assist?" I won't see the second reply until I visit the site.

Contrast this to if these two people start their own individual support tickets @ our site; I'll receive an email with the modification in question, the forum they posted in (e.g. whether they own the Lite or Pro version), the subject they entered and the full message body. This lets me know that Ticket A (the kudos) - while greatly appreciated - does not require my immediate attention, but Ticket B (the DB error) does.

This is not even touching on the amount of problems that can arise if multiple different people require my attention over multiple posts.

Moving on, let's talk about feature requests. Sure, a few requests we receive are ones where I could spend an hour and simply add it to the mod, but the vast majority of our outstanding feature requests are major undertakings that would require days, if not weeks, to add to the product.

If someone posts a feature request on page 5 of a release thread here, in 3 months the thread in question may have received 50 new pages, meaning I would either need to keep a text file with description of each request, or I would need to manually dig it out of the thread.

Contrast this to if people post the feature request @ our site, the aforementioned support ticket system will give me a categorised, browsable list of every single feature request anyone has ever posted since the start of DBTech. This allows me to quickly refer back to a feature request at a later date, and contact the requester quickly and easily if I require more information.

If you still remain unconvinced as to why we prefer support requests posted @ our site, then it is of course your prerogative to decline our request for you to re-post issues. I hope that I have at least helped you understand that we don't do it simply because we want to make your lives more difficult, there is a rhyme and a reason


Fillip

[joeychgo]

Gee, I'm sorry vb.org isn't optimized for you, but somehow thousands of other mod creators managed to support their products here. Ever heard of thread subscriptions? I'm sure it would let you know when someone posted in one of your threads.

Funny thing, I noticed you were here several times after I posted my questions but three days went by before you managed to answer, which was to tell me to go to your private forum.

I have no need to repost my issues. I removed both the paid licenses and the lite licenses from my sites, you can keep the money I paid for the licenses as well.

[Alan_SP]

a) You received an answer why it is better for all parties (DBTech and all of us who use their mods) to post bug reports at their site. And this is how vB works, as an owner you should know how vB works.

b) Also, all communication was polite.

c) DBTech makes excellent, but also very complex mods. And has biggest portfolio at that. It's not easy to track all that info just like that. So they made their own tracking system that helps them in this (very big) task.

I don't see that as the worst thing in this world.

d) On the other hand, if someone don't want to use DBTech's mods, it's fine.

[Randhal007]

Nice Mods..
i like this

[CAG CheechDogg]

Originally Posted by joeychgo

Is there a problem with names that start with a number?

ie. @68plymouth383 doesn't seem to work, but @bluefury361 does.

Was this bug worked out? I was about to get the pro version of this but I have a lot of members with usernames who start with numbers and this would not be good ...

[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by CAG CheechDogg

Was this bug worked out? I was about to get the pro version of this but I have a lot of members with usernames who start with numbers and this would not be good ...

You are better off asking on their site, they answer a bit quicker there.

[Alan_SP]

You can buy branding free version on their site. Just having pro version isn't same as having branding free version.

[Alan_SP]

AFAIK, they have per product branding free and for those who have a lot of DBTechs products global branding free version (with big discount, of course).

You can find it here (this is just for AUT).