New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like v3 (vB5) [AJAX]

What it is: Advanced Thanks/Like mod is designed to cut down on spam and increase useful content in your forum by using a peer encouragement system - users thank/like each others posts, which can encourage the thanked person to post more great content.

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Translations available @ our forum.

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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php

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Feature List: Lite

Postbit stats: Shows how many button clicks a person has given, received etc in the postbit. Admins can determine what statistics can show in the postbit to control sizes etc.

Admin Permissions: Control things such as who can click buttons, require button clicks, what shows in postbit, what options can run concurrently, per forum permisions etc.

Notifications: Receive alerts when a member clicked on one of the buttons for one of your posts.

Feature List: Pro

Infinite Buttons: Ability to create new buttons to press! No longer do you need to be limited by Thanks / Like / Dislike.

User Postbit Config: Lets users decide what postbit stats they want to see.

Additional permissions: Un-click a button. Control how many stats show on the statistics page, set permissions per subforum.

Buttons in First Post Only: This allows you to only make the first post thankable. If you forum is based around news, releases or anything similar this will allow your users to easily see the quality of the thread in question.

Button Click Anonymity: This feature will be extremely helpful to forums who like the idea of a "dislike" button, but don't like the drama it brings. Now you can set certain buttons to be anonymous - no one will see who clicked.

Missing Feature List: Lite

Require a Button Click: Allows you to hide the content of a post, or hie an attachment, until the person clicks a button on the post.

Statistics: Shows the top 5 people for; Giving / Receiving button clicks.

Import Thanks: Import script to import "thanks" from Abe's [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack on vBulletin.org. It will work with both vB3 and vB4 versions of this mod.

Missing Feature List: Pro

Auto Collapse Posts: Collapses a post so it doesnt show up by using a formulae for button clicks of your choosing.

Post Colour Thresholds: Ever wanted an easy way for members to tell if a post is helpful or trash? Colour thresholds let you change the colour of posts depending on how many clicks of a button they receive. Members can now see at a glance whether or not a post is helpful, interesting or pointless.


Complete Feature List
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Thanks / Like / Dislike Buttons

• Fully integrated into the vBulletin 5 postbit footer
• Same style / functionality as the vBulletin Reputation / "Like" controls
• On-demand list of people who clicked a certain button
• Fully AJAX driven

Button Control

• Edit name and action text
• Turn off "Given" stats
• Turn off "Received" stats
• Ability to turn off buttons per Category

Notifications

• Forum notification
• Notifications contain direct link to the post in question

Maintenance

• Cleanup, removes any thanks / likes / dislikes from posts that no longer exists
• Recalculate, recalculates how many thanks / likes / dislikes a user should have
• Rebuild Statistics, ensures the Statistics table is correctly populated and its values are correct.

Search

• Filter entries by username, button, start date, end date
• Change number of entries per page
• Change sort order

Repair Cache

• Ensures the button / page router caches are updated

Front-End

• Profile tabs integration

Pro

UserCP Settings

• Hide postbit items per-button
• Turn off notifications

Button Control

• Create unlimited buttons to click
• Minimum posts required to click a button
• Per-usergroup setting to become immune to clicks of a button
• Per-usergroup setting whether who clicked a button is displayed
• Per-usergroup setting to allow disabling clicks of a specific button for a post
• Per-usergroup setting to allow removing a click of a button
• Limit button clicks per day
• Per-forum ability to set each button to only display in the first post
• Per-forum toggle of what buttons are enabled
• Turn off "Given" and "Received stats on a per-button basis

Search

• Ability to delete entries found in the Search interface
• Change number of entries per page
• Change sort order

Notifications

• Email notification, respects the receiving user's email settings
• Can be disabled on a per-button basis

Missing Feature List
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• Front-End
  • Require button clicks to see content (whole post is hidden)
  • Require button clicks to see attachments
  • Each button can be set as "Default" for Attachments and Content. When posting via Quick Reply, the default button(s) will be set as Required
  • Top 5 Given / Received statistics for each button
  • Widget for recent Button Clicks
  • Hottest Threads / Posts page showing most clicked posts and threads

Pro

• Front-End
  • "Entry List" page; a browseable list of all button clicks
  • Hottest Threads / Posts has a date range filter
• AdminCP
  • Set more / less than 5 for the Given / Received statistics
  • Ability to auto-collapse posts using provided formula or input for your own using your custom buttons
  • Ability to create Post Colour Thresholds to highlight posts in different colours
  • (vB4) Choose what portions of the postbit should be coloured via the post colour thresholds.
  • Individual users now be excluded from using the mod

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of all pages which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[bigbear83]

Hmm, that is interesting mdawg thx for the heads up there ... I'll have to monitor my board to see if I get the same problem there as you since you and I are pretty much seeing the same things as far as this mod is concerned ... however I have not personally gotten that particular database error yet though ... not before nor after I applied this most recent mod update ... also I can't say i'm seeing any particular slow down on accessing the threads ... but then again my board is not highly active.

I'll let you know if I encounter similar issues, but all looks to be running fine on my end for now ... fingers crossed as I really dig this mod and would hate to have to disable for any reason.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by mdawg

I still have an uneasy feeling that this mod somehow slows down the database such that it takes a long time to access threads because of it, and also leads to "MySQL server has gone away" errors.

The cause for MySQL has gone away errors is that your server is not configured correctly, or not powerful enough, to handle your current traffic.

This manual entry will tell you more information about the error: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/gone-away.html

Most commonly it's the timeout settings referred to on that page that's the cause, so if this is an ongoing problem I would recommend looking into those first and foremost.


Fillip

[mdawg]

At my forum the thank you count has reverted to 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 for everything, on some threads, and shows as 2 / 12 / 1 / 12 / 0 / 0 on another thread, for the same user.

It seems that on old threads the count is correct; on new threads remains at 0.

I sent you a PM now on this too. Thanks.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by mdawg

At my forum the thank you count has reverted to 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 for everything, on some threads, and shows as 2 / 12 / 1 / 12 / 0 / 0 on another thread, for the same user.

It seems that on old threads the count is correct; on new threads remains at 0.

I sent you a PM now on this too. Thanks.

I can't replicate this issue @ your site, the user in your PM has the same count on both posts.


Fillip

[mdawg]

As I PM'ed you the issue continues and is quite odd. I sent you the screen shots. Within for example a given PM thread or post thread the first PM/post might show 0 0 0 0 0 0 for a user, and then subsequent threads / posts will show the correct count, of say, 2 12 1 12 0 0 for that exact same user. In other words, different counts are displayed for the same user within the same thread.

It seems like the FIRST post of a PM thread definitely shows nothing but 0 0 0 0 0 0 for the user, in other words, the first post on a PM thread shows incorrect values.

Has anyone else experienced this? Check closely please.

[shimei]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

I can't replicate this issue @ your site, the user in your PM has the same count on both posts.


Fillip

I have the same problem. And, in the profile options when a thank is received it sometimes does not list the actual thread, but says so and so has "liked" your post on this "node". That and the constant emails if notifications only is checked made me disable this product, the pro version I purchased.

Fillip, I must regrettably say that I have lost confidence in Dragonbyte products and support in resolving issues and creating a bug free product for Vb 5.

Shim

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by shimei

I have the same problem.

I'll see if I have more luck replicating this issue @ your site

Originally Posted by shimei

And, in the profile options when a thank is received it sometimes does not list the actual thread, but says so and so has "liked" your post on this "node". That and the constant emails if notifications only is checked made me disable this product, the pro version I purchased.

"Node" is the vB5 term for a forum.

Originally Posted by shimei

Fillip, I must regrettably say that I have lost confidence in Dragonbyte products and support in resolving issues and creating a bug free product for Vb 5.

It was explained why the email notifications act the way they do in your thread over @ our forums.


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by shimei

I have the same problem.

I am unable to replicate this issue @ your site. Can you please provide step-by-step instructions for how to replicate this issue?


Fillip

[shimei]

Filip, when someone receives a thanks should it appear in the notification like hitting the stock vbulletin like button?

As far as the other issue, what had appeared after someone thanked was a count of zero zero zero across the board. If I am not wrong this was the issue being reported by another?

I regret having posted this issue in this board. Thank you for taking a look at the issues that I was having and resolving them today.

Shim

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by shimei

Filip, when someone receives a thanks should it appear in the notification like hitting the stock vbulletin like button?

Not at this time, no.

Originally Posted by shimei

As far as the other issue, what had appeared after someone thanked was a count of zero zero zero across the board. If I am not wrong this was the issue being reported by another?

I have tried to replicate this issue @ your site using the same testing methodology reported by the other user. I tried posting a new thread, and I tried replying to a thread. Both actions presented the correct thanks/like count in the postbit (after re-enabling the display for one of your buttons).

I forgot to mention in my previous posts; I saw the issue about the blank forum topics, my guess is that it's to do with deleted content. I updated the SQL query for fetching new entries accordingly.


Fillip