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.
Tried this in vb 3.8.0 and it doesn't work, I get no errors, just nothing updates automatically. Wonder what code is different in the new version of vbulletin.
I am using Firefox and it only posts the live topic when you reply again using the quick reply.... same issue in IE 7 even in compatability mode
OK will edit this:
It works when typing in IE 7 and it shows in Firefox, but when you type in firefox it dont show in IE 8 nor Google
browser, Also not working when you type in Google chrome to other browsers
IE to other browsers is great but that seems to be the only one atm
instead of refreshing the page to see if anyone has replied. Leave this thread open. For example, you just posted that message above at 15:26 its now 15:35. You have options to determine how long the thread is deamed active, if it was set to 10 min then my reply would automatically pop up below your thread. It saves on bandwidth i guess.
I watched it tree times and still don't understand what this mod is about ?
If your waiting for a reply on a thread and someone posts you do not need to refresh the page, it will use ajax to add the post, normally anyway, there are a few browser issues!!!
I watched it tree times and still don't understand what this mod is about ?
really? I hope your kidding... I have a large description on what it does and i also have a damn video if you still don't understand what it does then I cant help you. I dont know what else I could do to make it any clearer, unless you wanted to meet up at a starbucks and i can show you in person lol...
I am using Firefox and it only posts the live topic when you reply again using the quick reply.... same issue in IE 7 even in compatability mode
OK will edit this:
It works when typing in IE 7 and it shows in Firefox, but when you type in firefox it dont show in IE 8 nor Google
browser, Also not working when you type in Google chrome to other browsers
IE to other browsers is great but that seems to be the only one atm
thats weird because i did most of my tests on Chrome and it worked fine for me
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01-14-2009, 05:57 AM
but that seems to be the only one atm
