Miscellaneous Hacks - Live Topic

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Live Demo:

Live Topic 1.07b Demo (you must be logged in, and the topic must be "live")

Videos: 1.00b 1.06b

watch the damn videos... ^_^

Description:

This product is different from anything you have seen before, it raises the bar for forums. It will make your forums much more interactive, and also reduce server load.

Technical Details:

If a thread has been posted in X seconds then its now Live, if other users are viewing the Live topic and are on the last page they will experience a clean ajax experience while talking to other members. Once the thread is older than X seconds its no longer Live and it will now act like a normal thread. Also if a user edits one of their posts that's inside of the thread, it will be updated too so there is no longer a reason to ever have to refresh.

There is also logic for the viewer, the viewer of the thread has to be in an active state to see responses. An active user state is determined upon the users actions, if no actions were made in X seconds then the user is marked as inactive.

Also you may wonder why this could save your server bandwidth and CPU. If a user is refreshing to talk to another members the queries on a normal thread load are way more intense than the ajax call that this modification makes. So if you have 5 people talking to each other none of them have to refresh the page, all they are doing is simple page requests and one intense request when there has actual change.

You can test Live Topic with two users, you will see how amaizing this is... And probably spontaneously combust.

Found a bug? Want to request a feature?

Live Topic - Project Manager

Installation:

This is take less than 3 minutes to install, takes longer to notice its amazing feature. (you need multiple people to be active in the same topic)

Upgrade:

[1.01b to 1.XXb] Uninstall the product, then reinstall it. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

[1.02b to 1.03b] Overwrite files, upgrade product (dont install product)

[1.03b to 1.04b] Uninstall the product, then reinstall it. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

[1.04b to 1.05b, 1.05b to 1.06b,1.06b to 1.07b] Upgrade the product. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

Works With (FF2, FF3, IE6, IE7, IE8, SF2, SF3, CHROME):

vBulletin [3.8.X]

get the vBulletin [3.7.X] version here

INCOMPATIBLE HACKS:

• USC
• PassiveVid (1.x)
• gXboxLive
• Topic (incl. Blog) of the Week
• Marquee Text

Versions:

1.01b
1.02b

fixes

safari 2 support
safari 3 support
google chrome support
added live topic icon on new posts page
fixed security issue, strongly suggest upgrading!

changes

added live edit (to avoid a performance hit i had to add two rows to two tables in the database)
added external style sheet

1.03b

fixes

fix double post
phrase notification
fixed an edit bug for people with table prefixes

changes

ability to change interval in ACP

1.04b

fixes

javascript error for guests
fixed live topic activation (first poster to raise a dead topic)

changes

auto quick reply focus after post

1.05b

fixes

css flaw
js error for unsupported browsers (random)
fixed chrome issue

changes

edit notification - thanks to nso
rebuilding some of the original logic to hopefully prevent product conflicts

1.06b

fixes

fixed a little javascript issue that had to do with displaying posts
uses GPC cleaner now

changes

limit the number of ajax posts on the live topic (example 40) and fade them away.
changed the way the hooks are used
tightened up everything a bit

1.07b

fixes

fixed a bug where the live topic notification always making an ajax call

changes

support user ignore list
changed the way the javascript logic worked (hopefully there are less compatibly issues) added support for IE6 and IE8

1.10

hmm

{Mark As Installed}

{Don't forget to vote for Modification of the Month}

[Coders Shack]

in a few hours (need to get off work soon)

[PGU]

very nice mod.

Is it possible to make a forum view version that would update /forumdisplay.php as threads are posted in?

[ray-]

I uninstalled it and installed 1.04. Still got the bug.
Took my default style under IE.
1. User makes a post, everything seems fine.Sorry for the Dutch words btw
2. User edits his post right after it. Other posts disappear and only the reply with the edit is visible to other users in the live thread.

I guess I'll have to live with it...apparently I'm the only one with this problem.

[Harmachis]

it works in opera ?

[Alfa1]

Please add member group permissions. I am mighty interested to install this hack, if I can activate it for my VIP members.

[mcyates]

This still does not work with Ultimate Site Columns Enabled. It works as soon as i disable USC.

[nascartr]

No more AJAX Editor errors now. Thanks!

[Coders Shack]

Originally Posted by ray-

I uninstalled it and installed 1.04. Still got the bug.
Took my default style under IE.
1. User makes a post, everything seems fine.Sorry for the Dutch words btw
2. User edits his post right after it. Other posts disappear and only the reply with the edit is visible to other users in the live thread.

I guess I'll have to live with it...apparently I'm the only one with this problem.

if this is the case i may have to disable it for IE7, until i can find a fix.

[Lynne]

I still haven't gone live with this (still running 3.6 on my live site), so I'm playing with it on my test site to see what is up. I put my test user (Safari) on page one of a thread and then in my other browser (firefox) I made the thread 'live' again. I got a little notification in Safari (shown below) and I clicked on it and was told "no Thread specified. If you followed... yada, yada, yada" so, the link on that needs to be fixed (on my site, it was shown as "http://test.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=644685.19&goto=newpost" - it is thread 64488, but I don't know what the ".19" is for). Also, what do the numbers 15.19 mean?
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Other comments: I still think this is the most awesome new mod - thank you so much for sharing!!!

Any idea if it matters if the thread has many posts (say over 60,000) versus only a few posts (say under 100)? Should that even matter?

It would be nice to have an options "Make Live Topic only active in listed forums - Yes. List forums to have Live Topic - 9,11,13"

[nascartr]

Originally Posted by Coders Shack

if this is the case i may have to disable it for IE7, until i can find a fix.

I haven't had any complaints yet. I use Avant Browser which uses IE7 backbone and it works so far for me.