Show Thread Enhancements - [DBTech] AJAX Threads v1 (vB3)

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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Differences between Pro and Lite

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

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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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[drsli]

This addon works, as far as I could experience, with the main functionality. Thanks for providing us this alternative to "Live Topic".
I discovered an issue though: picture-links in signatures to external servers don?t work anymore. Links to the forum-server still show up with the picture, but the external links are shown just as plain clickable urls.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by drsli

This addon works, as far as I could experience, with the main functionality. Thanks for providing us this alternative to "Live Topic".
I discovered an issue though: picture-links in signatures to external servers don?t work anymore. Links to the forum-server still show up with the picture, but the external links are shown just as plain clickable urls.

That's not something I'm able to control. I do not attempt to construct my own postbit (only a placeholder), I tell vBulletin to refresh its own postbit using provided vBulletin functions.

This means any mod that does not correctly show its postbit data (which, at the time of writing, includes a few DBTech mods) needs their own fix, it's not a bug in this mod.


Fillip

[drsli]

Thank you for the quick answer!
I started a "naked" vbulletin-installation within mamp from my local harddisc with nothing more than this addon and all links to external sigpics worked flawlessly!
So I was aware of having to deactivate and activate some of my many addons on my live-forum to dig further into this issue. For some reason I just activated "Ajax Threads" again without deactivating any other mod. Surprisingly now all external signature-links are working too on my live-forum!
So disabling and reenabling "Ajax Threads" seemed to do something magic, what is far beyond my noobish explanation-facility. Anyway, I?m glad, that it works now.

[DragonByte Tech]

v1.0.3
Fix: Fixed the Quick Reply post duplication issue, pinky swear for realsies this time. I hope.
Fix: The mod will now function correctly for users with no privileges to reply to the thread.
Fix: The mod will now function correctly for forums that have Quick Reply disabled.
Change: The mod no longer attempts to refresh closed threads.

Fillip

[TitanJeff]

Using 3.8.6 pl 1

I originally could not get this working until I disabled PassiveVid just in case others have difficulties and are also using that. It runs well now except for one thing...

When I quick reply to a post, any replies posted on the same page before repeats under mine as mentioned earlier in this thread. If I do a manual refresh, it removes the dupes. If a do an advanced reply, it's fine as well.

I would prefer to not turn off quick reply if possible. Maybe there's a way to have any new posts happen only when the page isn't refreshing? Would increasing the time between refreshes help?

Also, disabling the info bar in the CP doesn't remove the text for me.

This will be a very popular addition to my site. Thanks for making it and I hope you can help me with my problems.

[DragonByte Tech]

v1.0.4
Fix: Quick Replying after other posts have been loaded by AJAX Threads will no longer cause those posts to be duplicated
Fix: Forums with Quick Reply turned off should now see the mod function correctly
Fix: The setting to turn off the information bar will now work as intended

Fillip

[Alfa1]

Filip, could you tell me what kind of overhead this gives for busy boards? How many queries and connections does this add?
Thanks for releasing this. Im sure many people were waiting for this.

[DragonByte Tech]

I can't, because we do not have access to a busy board to test it on. It also depends greatly on the power of the server.

The mod performs 1 query per refresh cycle (beyond normal vB init queries obviously), and then calls showpost.php (see that file for number of queries it executes) for each new or edited post found.

It's really impossible for devs to answer "will this work on my forum" questions, so the best way to find out is to try it It's not going to physically set your server on fire

PS: In your signature, it should probably be "save bandwidth costs" and not "safe bandwidth costs"


Fillip

[TitanJeff]

Thanks for the update. I have upgraded and tested and here are my results:

The info bar text is functioning properly when turned off at the CP.

However, I am still having problems with the auto-update.

Yesterday, if I did a quick reply, it would DUPLICATE other people's posts and place it under my own. Now, it MOVES other people's previous posts and places it under my quick reply.

It will not move any previous posts by me. Only others.

Also, I have posts to be trimmed after 10 but that isn't happening. It keeps adding new posts as long as I don't manually refresh.

I can manually refresh or do an advanced reply and it puts everything back into the proper order. It then adds pages to the thread so you have to go to the last page. Then, if I do a quick reply, it only pushes down posts made by others AFTER the manual refresh or advanced reply.

As for server load, I had 300 members on and my load was:

0.57 0.38 0.29

When I disabled it, there was little change. I usually get 3000+ on game day so will try to test again when I have more on.

I hope this helps and thanks for working on it.

[DragonByte Tech]

The vB3-only issue of post placement will be fixed in the next version.

I am unable to confirm any issues with trimming posts, I set it to 2 and it correctly and consistently trims posts for me on vB3 as well.

Perhaps the next version will fix that too, who knows :P

I'll give it another day or two before I release it, to give other issues time to arise


Fillip