New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like v3 (vB4) [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 give them access to attachements, post content etc, as well as encourage the thanked person to post more great content.

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

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* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

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* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

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Importer from Abe's Thanks mod (vB3 / vB4) and vBSEO "Likes" now available in Lite version!


Major Features: 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.

Collapsable 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. The postbit is also collapsable.

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.

Reputation: Add / Remove Reputation for each of your button clicks.

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

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.

Import Likes: Import script to import "likes" from vBSEO.


Major Features: Pro

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

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

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.

Integrated Controls: You can now integrate the button clicking controls into the post footer, like many of you requested.

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.

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
Lite

• Front-End
  • Click buttons for posts (permissions and settings permitting)
  • Require button clicks to see content (whole post is hidden)
  • Require button clicks to see attachments
  • Top 5 Given / Received statistics for each button
  • Collapsible postbit statistics
  • (vB4) Forum Sidebar block for button feeds
  • Hottest Threads / Posts page showing most clicked posts and threads
  • 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
  • The "thanks bar" in posts displays the number of users who has clicked each button, also for non-forum integration areas
• AdminCP
  • Control display order of buttons
  • Set permissions per usergroup to be able to click and require clicks of buttons
  • Per-category toggle of what buttons are enabled
  • Search interface to find clicks for a specific post
  • Maintenance options; Clean up clicks that are attached to deleted posts, Recalculate the Given / Received statistics, Rebuild Reputation
  • Manual postbit stats relocation
  • Hide APTL info from guests
  • Globally disable notifications for new clicks
  • Disable APTL integration with non-forum areas via vBulletin Options
  • Disable "Total click count" on the "thanks bar"
  • Notifications can be disabled on a per-button basis
  • Disable button text
• Integration
  • Social Groups
  • User Notes
  • Visitor Messaging
  • (vB4) [DBTech] DragonByte Gallery: Images
  • (vB4) [DBTech] DragonByte Reviews: Reviews
• (vB4) Forum Block
  • Tabbed interface to choose between "Recent" and "Top" button clicks
  • Ability to select from any of the available buttons and display the 5 recent clicks from that button
  • "Top" tab on the forum block, lists top clicks for the selected button
  • Control the timespan in which the "Top" period is calculated for
  • Deny usergroup access

Pro

• Front-End
  • "Entry List" page; a browseable list of all button clicks
  • Users can hide postbit items via the UserCP
  • Users can turn off notifications via the UserCP
  • Hottest Threads / Posts has a date range filter
• AdminCP
  • Create unlimited buttons to click
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Move the "Post Like / Thanks" cloud above / below posts, above / below signatures
  • Ability to delete entries found in the Search interface
  • Email notifications (can be disabled globally) on a per-button basis
  • Disable notifications on a per-button basis
  • Set a flood limit (in seconds) that serves as a delay between button clicks
  • Individual users now be excluded from using the mod
  • Turn off individual buttons' integration with non-forum areas
  • Turn off "Given" and "Received stats on a per-button basis
• Integration
  • Blog Entries
  • Blog Comments

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• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[GONUMBER6]

I have found a bug. I also have point market & vbactivity installed, and award mod as well.

So since the display order of the like/thanks came first, everything else after that would not go into the post properly, causing a very distorted postbit. I disabled one mod at a time in postbit to find out what was causing it, and it was the like/thanks that was doing it.

To fix this problem, I edited the like/thanks in plug in and products to make it display order from 5 to 100, making sure it was the last modification on my post. I could not see this glitch, it worked fine for me. However, all my members were looking at this crazy display for a couple of days before they mentioned it to me. It has nothing to do with admin priveledges, because I logged out as guest and regular member and it was still fine from my view.

Don't know what it was, but this is what my members were seeing. Nothing was going over to the right? In two pictures because it would not all fit in one print screen.

http://www.englishbulldognews.com/fo...0&d=1282152302

http://www.englishbulldognews.com/fo...1&d=1282152312

I thought it had something to do with the boxes in the other mods, but even something small like a user title or mood was being thrown to the far left or middle of postbit once I removed the mods with boxes, like this:

http://www.englishbulldognews.com/fo...5&d=1282156671

But this is what it should have looked like, and was how I saw it from my computer.

http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/a.../00display.jpg

Just thought I would let you know about this

[DragonByte Tech]

Please attach the images in this forum because I'm unable to see the attachments on your forum


Fillip

[GONUMBER6]

Hi Fillip- I would gladly, but unfortunately I upgraded to 4.06 and have nothing but problems- the facebook platform does not work, all my attachments have little red x's on them, arcade navbar is messed up.... and now this mod is not working. So I cannot provide you with the pics.

I see it is for version 4.03- it is not supported for v 4.06?

[DragonByte Tech]

It - along with vBulletin 4.0.6 - is working perfectly fine in all our test environments


Fillip

[Trek]

Works fine on my 4.06 site as well.

[GONUMBER6]

yeah I figured that out. It seems to have something to do with javascript, because it is effecting edit, reply with quote, rep, ect.

I am lost. If I ever get those attachments back I will post them Fillip!

[robbiefritz]

May I ask a silly question. The other thanks product does notification when combined with another product. From what I gather, I need to go Pro to get notification of what posts are thanked. That is really a key feature for my members.

What is the benefit of your product over others and why should I go this route? Not trying to be a wise-butt, just trying to determine what you consider to make this a superior product.

[DragonByte Tech]

There's no notification feature currently.

The reason why we believe our product is superior is that we actively support it and add features upon request when we have the time, whereas the other thanks mods are AFAIAA not that well supported and there's still lingering bugs that have yet to be fixed.

Fillip

[bchertov]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

There's no notification feature currently.

This is high on my list too! The poster should receive notification when they are thanked. I'd want it to be via email, but I can imagine other users would want it by PM. So it should be configurable.

I added this feature to Abe's product and it is very well "liked"! I also added a few other extensions such as more convenient links for both what posts a user was thanked for and what posts he thanked, which are also appreciated.

I've been on the fence about switching from Abe's product because of these extensions. I am considering just adopting it as my own and doing my own support. (Don't know about offering it to the community, though, sorry folks!). I'm giving up hope that Abe will return.

I've been hoping to see this product be upgraded, but it's been almost 3 months with no upgrade. The notification feature is HUGE, and not that hard to implement. What's happening? Is there a feature list and/or timing for an upgrade?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by bchertov

This is high on my list too! The poster should receive notification when they are thanked. I'd want it to be via email, but I can imagine other users would want it by PM. So it should be configurable.

I added this feature to Abe's product and it is very well "liked"! I also added a few other extensions such as more convenient links for both what posts a user was thanked for and what posts he thanked, which are also appreciated.

I've been on the fence about switching from Abe's product because of these extensions. I am considering just adopting it as my own and doing my own support. (Don't know about offering it to the community, though, sorry folks!). I'm giving up hope that Abe will return.

I've been hoping to see this product be upgraded, but it's been almost 3 months with no upgrade. The notification feature is HUGE, and not that hard to implement. What's happening? Is there a feature list and/or timing for an upgrade?

Was updated at the start of July (just under 2 months since last update),

Next update is scheduled to be done in 3-8 weeks roughly =) No feature list for the update atm.

We have a dozen or so products, so it takes some time to get round them all =)

Iain