Show Thread Enhancements - [DBTech] AJAX Threads v1 (vB4)

AJAX Threads: What is it?
AJAX Threads brings your threads alive, making them automatically refresh without needing to reload the page.

Uses

AJAX Threads is the ideal product for forums with busy threads or which deal with any sort of "event" be that TV shows, sports or game releases!
AJAX Threads allows you to make topics "auto update" without the user having to refresh. This can give performance benefits when applied to threads which receive a lot of refresh requests, and can increase user participation.
Topics can be turned live by admins individually, or you can set whole forums to have their threads be live automatically. You can even allow only VIP usergroups to have threads refresh automatically to increase subscription numbers.

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

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Major Features:

Automatically Refresh Threads: Users will now see new posts in "real time" without having to refresh the page

Performance Benefits: If your forum receives lots of refresh requests on threads being posted in often this can put a lot of strain on your server - AJAX Threads will greatly reduce server resources used in those situations by refreshing only the minimum information required.

Total Control: You can set threads individually or per forum. You can set particular usergroups to receive the benefit, and you can even have it apply automatically to popular threads!

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Complete Feature List (Lite)
* vBOption: Enable Automatic Updates
* vBOption: Refresh Interval
* vBOption: Idle Timeout
* vBOption: Automatic Un-Idle
* vBOption: Enable Information Bar (Tells users how often the thread refreshes, whether they're idle, and how to un-idle, etc)
* vBOption: Maximum Shown Posts
* Ability for users to manually refresh threads if Automatic Updates are disabled (cannot refresh more often than Refresh Interval regardless)
* Ability for users to manually un-idle themselves if automatic updates are enabled and the Idle Timeout is reached
* Per-usergroup setting to determine if automatic updates are enabled
* Per-usergroup setting to determine if manual updates are enabled
* Per-category setting to determine if automatic updates are enabled
* Per-category setting to determine if manual updates are enabled
* "Live" image on forumdisplay for threads that have automatic or manual updates enabled
* Posts fetched by AJAX Threads are marked as read
* Per-usergroup "duration" before a thread goes "idle".


Complete Feature List (Pro)
* vBOption: Minimum Replies
* Per-forum setting to determine if automatic updates are enabled
* Per-forum setting to determine if manual updates are enabled
* Per-thread setting to determine if automatic updates are enabled
* Per-thread ability for administrators with the "Manager" permission to override forum / usergroup settings and either enable or disable automatic updates

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[sticky]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

That is not something I can replicate. Please ensure that you have not set the Post Cutoff to less than your Posts Per Page.


Fillip

That is exactly what the problem was, thanks.

[The Vegan Forum]

Hi,
how CPU intensive is this modification?

[DragonByte Tech]

2%.

no but seriously, it is impossible to answer such a question. Even if it doesn't make any impact on one CPU, it may very well make an impact on a much lower-grade CPU. Et cetera.

We have had few to no reports of server load increasing, plus this version is free so you can check it out and monitor server load for yourself


Fillip

[janslu]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

We have had few to no reports of server load increasing, plus this version is free so you can check it out and monitor server load for yourself

Fillip,
sorry for bothering, but does the server load depend on the number of replies in the thread? I have multiple very long threads on my forum (10.000 posts long threads) - would that have an impact on my load?

Cheers
Jan

[DragonByte Tech]

That shouldn't have an impact, but we do not have access to a test board with that number of replied so it is impossible to say.

Fillip

[sticky]

Dupe posts still appear from time to time, other than that this is just about perfect.

[LuDawgs]

I haven't installed this, but I have an idea (probably not an original one). You know the "latest posts" forum block? It'd be pretty cool if someone could ajax that bad boy to see new posts fade in along the same manner.

[sticky]

Originally Posted by LuDawgs

I haven't installed this, but I have an idea (probably not an original one). You know the "latest posts" forum block? It'd be pretty cool if someone could ajax that bad boy to see new posts fade in along the same manner.

Mods for that exist already.

[LuDawgs]

Originally Posted by sticky

Mods for that exist already.

For 4.1.x? Link?

[combs]

great mod, but how do I remove that large LIVE button next to every thread?

Edit: I disabled threadbit_display . Seems to have worked.