Miscellaneous Hacks - [DBTech] Forum Live Feed & User Wall v1 (vB4) [AJAX]

Forum Live Feed & User Wall lets you see a continuously updated feed of activities on the forum, with a powerful set of customisation options for sources of information.

Uses
If you've wished for a Facebook-like feed for your forum, this mod is for you.

This mod adds 2 distinct features to your site. First a live feed showing actions performed by everyone on the forum, from new threads and posts to things like new avatars or signatures, your members can customise their feed and keep up to date with everything that's going on, right as it happens.
Secondly every user also has their own wall that displays what they have been up to. This lets users see what their friends have been doing and join in!
With advanced privacy configuration options and configurable preview options for each content type, this mod compliments other modifications like InfoPanels and produces a more detailed and verbose feed of the happenings on the forum.


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* 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

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Translations available @ our forum
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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Complete Feature List

Lite

• Forum Sidebar block type
• Preview in Forum Sidebar
• Ability to turn off IMG tag parsing on both main pages and Sidebar
• Status updates (from Forum Sidebar or the Live Wall page)
• Content types for nearly all forum actions:
  • Posts
  • Threads
  • Avatar changes (Only if Avatars are stored in the file system!)
  • Signature picture changes (Only if Signature Pictures are stored in the file system!)
  • Username changes
  • Social Group discussion
  • Social Group discussion replies
  • Status Updates (From this mod)
  • vBLive Status Updates
  • vBArcade Scores
  • [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like: Button clicks for Posts
• Nobody / Registered Users / Contacts Only / Friends Only display options for each content type to control who you see feeds from
• Nobody / Registered Users / Contacts Only / Friends Only privacy options for each content type to control who can see your feeds
• Automatically refreshing via AJAX at controllable intervals

Pro

• Recent Entries page with more entries displayed, no auto refresh
• Ability to "favourite" stories and view them from their own page
• Comments system
  • Comment count in the main feed with link to comment thread
  • Ability to post comments in the comment thread
  • AJAX refreshed comment threads
  • Ability to delete your own/others comments with usergroup permissions
• Content types for nearly all forum actions:
  • Blog Posts
  • Blog Comments
  • User Notes
  • Visitor Messages
  • Profile Pictures

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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

[meaters]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Forum Live Feed & User Wall v1.2.1 (Beta):
Feature: Now available in a new flavour: vBulletin 3.8.x!
Feature: Parsing of [img] tags can now be turned off on the main feed as well as the sidebar
Fix: (vB4) Introduced a new CSS class in dbtech_livewall.css that should ensure videos / images are properly constrained within the sidebar


Fillip

Thank you, images are now beautifully resized in the forum sidebar!

Awesome mod, marked as installed and voted for mod of the month.

:up:

[creppello]

Another nice one. I've got so much DBtech stuff I breath fire. Thanks again Phillip !!! I'm going to start upgrading to pro with some of our products soon. I have no issues with any of your stuff, and it's nice to work with so many mods from one source so they don't clash.

[DragonByte Tech]

Forum Live Feed & User Wall v1.2.2:
Feature: Status updates can now be deleted
Feature: Added profile tab for user walls (does not automatically update, but contains links to the full "live" user wall). This tab can be turned off via a setting in vBulletin Options.
Fix: Will no longer interfere with vBAdvanced.

For the same reason as edited posts etc don't update, deleted status updates won't vanish from other peoples' walls until they reload the page / it vanishes off their feed naturally.
This is to preserve resources and cannot be changed at this time.

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

PS: To whoever who was asking for censor to be implemented: This already worked, it is built into the BBCode parsing


Fillip

[GhettoTech]

Is there any plan on allowing users to post "What's on your mind" from the profile pages? I realize this page isn't "live" and updates on refresh as well. Are there any plans to make this update live as well?

[DragonByte Tech]

To my knowledge it's not possible for me to detect what tab you are currently viewing on the profile page, and it would be a waste of resources to have live updates if the user is not even viewing the updates.

Plus, I personally feel that it's sort of a waste to have TWO pages doing "show updates from user x" - especially considering the link to the person whose profile you are viewing is plastered all over the User Wall tab

That being said, the ability to submit a new status from your profile in a sideblock is a good idea and we'll look into it for a future version


Fillip

[Mr_Running]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

the ability to submit a new status from your profile in a sideblock is a good idea and we'll look into it for a future version Fillip

Awesome!
A Status update Profile tab which would save all Status updates would be cool too.

Status Updates are valuable only if they are saved for the users.

It would be great to see a Status Updates profile tab with this
Forum Live Feed and User Wall mod

[meaters]

Youtube videos now display in the forum sidebar.

[burlesque]

Hi - I installed this on my test forum and everything was working fine, including the sidebar widget on the forumhome.

However, when I installed Everywhere Sidebar, the sidebar widget no longer appears.

Would you know why this is happening? I've not had any problems using Everywhere Sidebar before?!

[DragonByte Tech]

Apparently that mod is incapable of displaying custom sidebar blocks, it only works with built-in vBulletin ones. When I have the time, I'll install it on my test environment and see if I can make it work


Fillip