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
Lite

• 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

[Mattwhf]

Hi DragonByte Tech,

There is a same mod but for vB4?

I really like this mod and want to have it on my forum

[shimei]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Not at this time, no.

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

Hello Fillip,

I am having another issue that I just noticed. When I take my forum offline I get a soft error, a white page that says software error when any dragonbyte product is enabled. If I disable both the info panels and thanks product the board goes offline without error displaying the board is offline.

Shim

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by shimei

Hello Fillip,

I am having another issue that I just noticed. When I take my forum offline I get a soft error, a white page that says software error when any dragonbyte product is enabled. If I disable both the info panels and thanks product the board goes offline without error displaying the board is offline.

Shim

Could you please elaborate? What do you mean, "software error"?


Fillip

[shimei]

This is what appears when either of my DB products are left enabled when pulling the site offline:

[DragonByte Tech]

Unfortunately it doesn't appear to be currently possible for our products to function while the site is offline, sorry

I don't know why vBulletin 5 decided to make every single API call from templates fail with that error but I have found no way around it.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help


Fillip

[sanata]

5.2.3 not work?
Thanks friend

[DragonByte Tech]

I don't believe this has been explicitly tested with vB 5.2.3 just yet.

Fillip

[mdawg]

Originally Posted by shimei

Hello Fillip,

I am having another issue that I just noticed. When I take my forum offline I get a soft error, a white page that says software error when any dragonbyte product is enabled. If I disable both the info panels and thanks product the board goes offline without error displaying the board is offline.

Shim

When I turn my forum off anyone (not logged in) coming to the forum gets this error:


A System Error has occured.

The software is experiencing a systems error.

You should attempt to repeat your last action. If this error occurs again, please contact the site administrator.


Which I assume is related to this Dragonbytes software.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by mdawg

When I turn my forum off anyone (not logged in) coming to the forum gets this error:


A System Error has occured.

The software is experiencing a systems error.

You should attempt to repeat your last action. If this error occurs again, please contact the site administrator.


Which I assume is related to this Dragonbytes software.

Unfortunately I don't believe it's possible for vB5 mods to run while the forum is offline, sorry


Fillip

[mdawg]

Well the issue isn't so much for the mods to run, but that that weird error shows instead of simply "Forums Closed for Maintenance" / "Forums Offline" etc. The weird error shows because of your mods.

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I am trying to track down database errors (My SQL Server has gone away)...Do your mods, the ones I have on my vb5 forum - do they use GET requests for API calls ?

Those would be the vBShout v6 (vB5) [AJAX] and the Advanced Post Thanks / Like v3 (vB5) [AJAX] mods.

Do they use GET requests?