Miscellaneous Hacks - Display Unread Posts

As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

This displays the actual number of posts that are still considered unread by you (and will show up in a 'getnew' search).

There is also an option to put back the members last visit date, which was removed in vb4. There is the choice to count the unread posts since your last visit, or all posts considered unread. This setting reflects where the divider in the 'getnew' search display used to be (apparently its no longer displayed).

There is also the option to disable the unread posts display or the new reputation comments display. New Reputation Comments are shown in the Notifications section.

This modifications settings are located in vBulletin Options > Display Unread Posts[/COLOR].

The unread posts functionality requires that database thread marking is active.
Please be aware that installing this will enable that system (with automatic forum marking).
Forum marking choices are located in vBulletin Options > General Settings > Thread/Forum Read Marking Type

To install this hack unzip the xml file and import it using the ACP Product Manager.


History:

v4.0.1 : 24-Dec-2009 : Initial release for vb 4.0.0 Gold.
v4.0.2 : 27-Dec-2009 : Phrase updates.
v4.0.3 : 27-Dec-2009 : Phrase and Install updates only.
v4.0.4 : 17-Feb-2010 : Updated release for vB 4.0.2 onwards (only).
v4.0.5 : 18-Feb-2010: Installer & code updates.
v4.0.6 : 12-Apr-2010: Minor alignment change.
v4.0.7 : 29-May-2010 : Fix error in upgrade section of install code.
v4.0.8 : 06-Nov-2010 : Install code updated.

v4.1.0 : 04-Dec-2010 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.

v4.1.7.0 : 16-Oct-2011 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.7.

v4.2.0.0 : 24-May-2012 : Updated for vBulletin 4.2.0.
v4.2.5.0 : 09-Mar-2017 : Updated version for vBulletin 4.2.5 (only).

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by masterross

This hack overloading mysqld!

Interesting comment from someone who hasnt even downloaded it. Its wrong as well btw.

[SuperGLS]

Paul, you are my hero! One of the last things I've been missing from vB3. I will send you money now.

Working great on 4.0.2.

[zeroality]

Just upgraded to 4.0.2 and updated this MOD. Works just fine except now regular users (or others who do not have permissions to view) can see the excluded "staff" forums when pulling up the new posts search.

Type: Posts; Excluded Forums: Champion's Tower, Forum Games, Reports and Infractions, Contributor Forum; New Posts

The account I tested this on does have permission to view Forum Games, but not the others. Minor nitpick but still would like a fix. Thanks.

[Paul M]

I cannot do anything about that - its standard vb functionality. If you think it doesnt work properly then you need to log a bug at vb.com.

[masterross]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Interesting comment from someone who hasnt even downloaded it. Its wrong as well btw.

Really?

So how you can explain this:

w/o hack:

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2min after enabled:

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6min after enabled:

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If remain active for 1 hour load goes to 90-100


Of-course will work on baby boards with small numbers of members online but did you tried on board with 2000 users online

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by masterross

Really?

Yes, Really.

Originally Posted by masterross

So how you can explain this:

I dont explain how other peoples servers are configured.

What I do know is how this works, specifically one, fully indexed select. The average vb4 page uses about 15 such queries per page. Your links show that you are already running high loads in the before screen - if adding one more indexed query to a page is having that sort of dramatic effect then your server is already on the edge of collapse.

I would suggest that you make sure that your server actually created the dateline index (which btw, is done on install, and would take a while on 2 million posts).

Originally Posted by masterross

Of-course will work on baby boards with small numbers of members online but did you tried on board with 2000 users online

Dont patronise me just because you have a busy forum. Im well aware of whats involved in busy set-ups. I have had this working on high traffic forums, and indeed, added the cutoff feature at the request of one to help control high load queries that would have involved counting 1,000's of posts. You would also do well to remember that this only works on logged in members, not users, from observing your forum tonight, I would guess its more like 800 members online, not 2000 (and I cant tell what you cookie timeout is either).

[zeroality]

Originally Posted by Paul M

I cannot do anything about that - its standard vb functionality. If you think it doesnt work properly then you need to log a bug at vb.com.

Ah, I see. Well thank you for your great hack and I'm sorry others are being jerks.

Will go report as bug right now.

[malas2007]

Installed

www.bonsaifreinds.com/vb

[CoZmicShReddeR]

Wow really nice feature!

[SuperGLS]

After upgrading to 4.0.2 my forum was using database thread marking and this mod was working great. However I didn't want database thread marking (for many other reasons and had never had the site set to this previous of the upgrade... why the upgrade changed it I don't know) so now this mod isn't quite as exciting as it was.

Paul, do you ever see this working with the Inactivity/Cookie Based option rather than the database thread marking option?