Show Thread Enhancements - [DBTech] AJAX Threads v1 (vB3)

AJAX Threads: What is it?
AJAX Threads brings your threads alive, making them automatically refresh without needing to reload the page.

Uses

AJAX Threads is the ideal product for forums with busy threads or which deal with any sort of "event" be that TV shows, sports or game releases!
AJAX Threads allows you to make topics "auto update" without the user having to refresh. This can give performance benefits when applied to threads which receive a lot of refresh requests, and can increase user participation.
Topics can be turned live by admins individually, or you can set whole forums to have their threads be live automatically. You can even allow only VIP usergroups to have threads refresh automatically to increase subscription numbers.

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Differences between Pro and Lite

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

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

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Major Features:

Automatically Refresh Threads: Users will now see new posts in "real time" without having to refresh the page

Performance Benefits: If your forum receives lots of refresh requests on threads being posted in often this can put a lot of strain on your server - AJAX Threads will greatly reduce server resources used in those situations by refreshing only the minimum information required.

Total Control: You can set threads individually or per forum. You can set particular usergroups to receive the benefit, and you can even have it apply automatically to popular threads!

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Complete Feature List (Lite)
* vBOption: Enable Automatic Updates
* vBOption: Refresh Interval
* vBOption: Idle Timeout
* vBOption: Automatic Un-Idle
* vBOption: Enable Information Bar (Tells users how often the thread refreshes, whether they're idle, and how to un-idle, etc)
* vBOption: Maximum Shown Posts
* Ability for users to manually refresh threads if Automatic Updates are disabled (cannot refresh more often than Refresh Interval regardless)
* Ability for users to manually un-idle themselves if automatic updates are enabled and the Idle Timeout is reached
* Per-usergroup setting to determine if automatic updates are enabled
* Per-usergroup setting to determine if manual updates are enabled
* Per-category setting to determine if automatic updates are enabled
* Per-category setting to determine if manual updates are enabled
* "Live" image on forumdisplay for threads that have automatic or manual updates enabled
* Posts fetched by AJAX Threads are marked as read
* Per-usergroup "duration" before a thread goes "idle".


Complete Feature List (Pro)
* vBOption: Minimum Replies
* Per-forum setting to determine if automatic updates are enabled
* Per-forum setting to determine if manual updates are enabled
* Per-thread setting to determine if automatic updates are enabled
* Per-thread ability for administrators with the "Manager" permission to override forum / usergroup settings and either enable or disable automatic updates

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[xorex]

Originally Posted by TitanJeff

Also, I have posts to be trimmed after 10 but that isn't happening. It keeps adding new posts as long as I don't manually refresh.

I can manually refresh or do an advanced reply and it puts everything back into the proper order. It then adds pages to the thread so you have to go to the last page. Then, if I do a quick reply, it only pushes down posts made by others AFTER the manual refresh or advanced reply.

have same issue

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by xorex

have same issue

See my previous post in this thread


Fillip

[citeman]

Hi Fillip,
To help reduce the server load on can you create a button saying "Make this real time" when a users makes a quickreply and only when you a certain percentage of users participating in the thread are "online"? This will make sure that real time updates are initiated by real members who are using it.

Also strike out threads from real time updates when there has been no activity on the thread.

You can maybe also extend the functionality to send a notification to the online members participating in the thread that "real time discussion has been enabled on this thread".

I think managing the real time updates selectively will make all the difference in this mod and it'll manage the server load manageable - instead of making all threads real time it should choose intelligently.

Regards,
Sid

[Emeralda]

I'm checking it out now, Live Topics already started killing the server for me. From what I understood, it's more efficient than the aforementioned mod, right? And there is no refreshing when someone edits a post? And rawr, great kudos for doing versions for both vB3 and vB4, I planned to upgrade soon.

EDIT: Oh wow, it does update edited posts, kudos to you!~

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by citeman

Hi Fillip,
To help reduce the server load on can you create a button saying "Make this real time" when a users makes a quickreply and only when you a certain percentage of users participating in the thread are "online"? This will make sure that real time updates are initiated by real members who are using it.

Also strike out threads from real time updates when there has been no activity on the thread.

You can maybe also extend the functionality to send a notification to the online members participating in the thread that "real time discussion has been enabled on this thread".

I think managing the real time updates selectively will make all the difference in this mod and it'll manage the server load manageable - instead of making all threads real time it should choose intelligently.

Regards,
Sid

Hey,

Could you please re-post feature requests as over at our forum www.dragonbyte-tech.com ?

We have a system in place that tracks feature requests via threads, which makes it easier for us when we're planning new versions. It'd be difficult for us to troll through several old pages on vB.org threads.

It'd be greatly appreciated

Originally Posted by Emeralda

I'm checking it out now, Live Topics already started killing the server for me. From what I understood, it's more efficient than the aforementioned mod, right? And there is no refreshing when someone edits a post? And rawr, great kudos for doing versions for both vB3 and vB4, I planned to upgrade soon.

EDIT: Oh wow, it does update edited posts, kudos to you!~

I do believe it is more efficient, yeah.

From what I recall, the old Live Threads sent 1 fetch request for each post in the thread and another request if the result was that the post had been updated.

This mod will send one request for ALL posts, then return the new / updated posts. It will still send 1 fetch request for each post that is new or updated but that's because vBulletin's postbit (and mods that hook into the code associated with displaying the postbit) does a lot of processing that we couldn't reasonably replicate.

Hopefully it's clear what I mean, needlessly complex explanations is a professional hazard unfortunately


Fillip

[Emeralda]

Hmm, I know this is about threads, but would it be possible to extend the feature to notifications or make a new mod dedicated to making them also auto refresh? I'm talking about these:

[DragonByte Tech]

We have a modification for that, it's called vBNotifications

http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/vbeco...&productid=104 / https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=266914


Fillip

[3amalah]

Product does not work correctly with version 3.8.7
There are also some of the most settings, when set to not appear in 4.1.8
Please you to put animated images of the work of MOD fully and photos of the MOD settings

[DragonByte Tech]

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean regarding the settings. Could you clarify, please?

Fillip

[Emeralda]

Originally Posted by 3amalah

Product does not work correctly with version 3.8.7
There are also some of the most settings, when set to not appear in 4.1.8
Please you to put animated images of the work of MOD fully and photos of the MOD settings

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean regarding the settings. Could you clarify, please?


Fillip

Probable translation:

With 3.8, there are some bugs. I guess he's talking about posts appearing out of order. I get that too, but it was said it would be fixed in the next version.
For 4.1, he might just want a demo as an animated gif (video would be better though), and a screenshot of the settings page.