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}

[nul7]

Originally Posted by Coders Shack

I'm in the process of building a list on incompatible hacks.

But if you had a link to your forum with it enabled that would help.

Ugh... sorry. lol Board is at: http://forum.crookedh.com

I've seen others report an incompatibility with USC, but we do not have that installed. Would it help to list the plugins/products we have?

EDIT: And a direct link to the board with the default, blank style: http://forum.crookedh.com/index.php?styleid=16 We only have one style so user style selection has been disabled.

[Coders Shack]

it could be three things:

+ products
+ template
+ forum config

for majority of the people here it works.

[sdsvtdriver]

Originally Posted by Mr. Baws

oh i found

<if condition="$post['signature'] AND $GLOBALS[forumid] != X">

but i have another question will this live thread "die" if no one post for some time?

where did you insert that code?

[sdsvtdriver]

Originally Posted by nul7

I don't think so... First, I don't know what you mean by "L/F". lol Second, I don't see anything happen at all. As far as I can tell, there is absolutely no difference with this mod enabled or disabled aside from the icon in the thread list. Maybe I'm not looking close enough or in the right spot to see some possible activity? What is an "L/F"?

a line feed. basically, once I posted as person "A", I alt-tab'd to the other browser logged in as person "B" quickly. I saw the gap between "post reply" and the last post increase by one line feed or carriage return (hitting enter gives you an idea) instead of the post appearing.

I found my gxboxlive add-on to be conflicting. I disabled it and this product works.

[Harmachis]

im requisting u, plz make it for Opera 9+

[TonyMF]

Originally Posted by Harmachis

im requisting u, plz make it for Opera 9+

It works for me using Opera v9.63. However, it does not work for me using Internet Explorer 8 b2. No real surprise there though...

FireFox / Internet Explorer / Opera Screenshot

[Harmachis]

not work for me at opera 9.51
maybe i need to upgrade now

[nul7]

Just an update, I disabled every single plugin aside from this one and switched to the bare, default vbulletin template. Still didn't work. *sigh* What are the server requirements for this? Maybe something we need to change/update on the server? Would love to get this running.

[gx123]

Originally Posted by Coders Shack

depends on what type of forum you have , if you cashing out on advertising on your members then poor members. But if your cashing out of content... (via google hits) then its a good addition.

thanks for your reply codershack
no, i don't chase on advertising.
i have a pageview milestones that should be went beyond last year milestone.
i love it when the post count per day goes beyond 300%, i feel that the community is so lively, but it also shocking that google analytics doesn't count it as a pageview or hit.

if that happens until the milestone deadline, i could get a salary cut or even fired

i love the community and i love to see them discuss something with high spirit. thats why they hired me as their community builder. but if the pageviews are low and unaccountable, i will be a regular member soon enough

is there any way google analytics pageviews work with this ?

thanks in advance

[Lynne]

I just upgraded my site to 3.8 and installed this. A couple of things....

- is there a reason you didn't include the $hook_query_fields (and others) from "newreply_post_ajax" in the $posts query in livetopic_hooks.php?
- one of my users who's a computer guy, says "Im looking at my resource meter - and that melting posting is making IE run at 60% CPU load on the workstation.
It peaks the meter as it fades in.. FYI" So, I'm not sure if there is a way to either turn that off or do something so it doesn't eat up the resources.

I decided to install this and see if my users figured it out. So far, the only ones who have are Staff in my Upgrade thread cuz we were all posting about little problems here and there that I had after the upgrade.