Miscellaneous Hacks - [DBTech] Forum Live Feed & User Wall v1 (vB4) [AJAX]

Forum Live Feed & User Wall lets you see a continuously updated feed of activities on the forum, with a powerful set of customisation options for sources of information.

Uses
If you've wished for a Facebook-like feed for your forum, this mod is for you.

This mod adds 2 distinct features to your site. First a live feed showing actions performed by everyone on the forum, from new threads and posts to things like new avatars or signatures, your members can customise their feed and keep up to date with everything that's going on, right as it happens.
Secondly every user also has their own wall that displays what they have been up to. This lets users see what their friends have been doing and join in!
With advanced privacy configuration options and configurable preview options for each content type, this mod compliments other modifications like InfoPanels and produces a more detailed and verbose feed of the happenings on the forum.


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We appreciate the support!
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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com

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Translations available @ our forum
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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Complete Feature List

Lite

• Forum Sidebar block type
• Preview in Forum Sidebar
• Ability to turn off IMG tag parsing on both main pages and Sidebar
• Status updates (from Forum Sidebar or the Live Wall page)
• Content types for nearly all forum actions:
  • Posts
  • Threads
  • Avatar changes (Only if Avatars are stored in the file system!)
  • Signature picture changes (Only if Signature Pictures are stored in the file system!)
  • Username changes
  • Social Group discussion
  • Social Group discussion replies
  • Status Updates (From this mod)
  • vBLive Status Updates
  • vBArcade Scores
  • [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like: Button clicks for Posts
• Nobody / Registered Users / Contacts Only / Friends Only display options for each content type to control who you see feeds from
• Nobody / Registered Users / Contacts Only / Friends Only privacy options for each content type to control who can see your feeds
• Automatically refreshing via AJAX at controllable intervals

Pro

• Recent Entries page with more entries displayed, no auto refresh
• Ability to "favourite" stories and view them from their own page
• Comments system
  • Comment count in the main feed with link to comment thread
  • Ability to post comments in the comment thread
  • AJAX refreshed comment threads
  • Ability to delete your own/others comments with usergroup permissions
• Content types for nearly all forum actions:
  • Blog Posts
  • Blog Comments
  • User Notes
  • Visitor Messages
  • Profile Pictures

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[DragonByte Tech]

Forum Live Feed & User Wall v1.2.4
Fix: The Status input area still showed if status updates were disabled
Fix: Added DBTech Affiliate System integration
Fix: Changed link to jQuery to be SSL compatible

Fillip

[tuRiver]

Does this replace the "Activity" tab?

[DragonByte Tech]

You can, if you so choose, do that in vBulletin 4.2's Navigation Manager.

Fillip

[tuRiver]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

You can, if you so choose, do that in vBulletin 4.2's Navigation Manager.


Fillip

Hi Fillip

And what about on user profile? Activity and Visitor messages should be replaced by this mod, right?

[DragonByte Tech]

No, mods have no way of disabling other profile tabs, and this does in no way, shape or form replace the data displayed in the Visitor Messages tab.

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

v1.2.5
Fix: UTF-8 characters would not display correctly when they were fetched via AJAX.

Fillip

[chaz7979]

Are there any examples of this mod in action?

What kind of load does it put on a server?

[DragonByte Tech]

Our "all mods enabled" domain, www.dbtech.co has this mod in action.

The load depends on your settings and popularity of your site, it's impossible to answer that.


Fillip

[chaz7979]

I understand that it is highly variable but, do you have any idea what kind of additional resources are needed for say 100 users using the feature?

If you had 100 users logged into the site and they were all using the feature would it create double the typle load? triple?

[chaz7979]

Where on www.dbtech.co can I see this plugin in action?