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.
Would anyone know.. as a baseline where to start with the times for a small board
up to 2-10 users in one topic
I have everything right at the default levels.
My board went up and down spiking now and then (up to 20) with this installed.. I have a dedicated Dual Xeon E5405 Quad Core (Harpertown) with 6 GB of ram. After disabling this mod, the load went back to 2. I have an average of 300-400 members online at once. It's a really nice mod though. I guess I'll start adjusting the time intervals and see if that makes any difference at all.
My board went up and down spiking now and then (up to 20) with this installed.. I have a dedicated Dual Xeon E5405 Quad Core (Harpertown) with 6 GB of ram. After disabling this mod, the load went back to 2. I have an average of 300-400 members online at once. It's a really nice mod though. I guess I'll start adjusting the time intervals and see if that makes any difference at all.
If your average load is 2 you already have too little hardware.
I'm sorry for not releasing 1.06b ... I recently had a death in the family and had to help with the memorial services and comfort my loved ones. Ill try shooting for a different day.
I am in the process of installing right now, but the alter post takes a loooong time if there are a lot of posts.
Ideas for 1.06
Instead of this:
(would like to come up with a way to make the user end up on the last page if the refresh while they are in a live topic. Currently they just stay on the current page they were viewing, and have to manually go to the most recent page)
Why not just:
Ignore the posts per page var while the user is staying in the thread and continually update the same page with new posts until the user leaves the page.
I am in the process of installing right now, but the alter post takes a loooong time if there are a lot of posts.
Ideas for 1.06
Instead of this:
(would like to come up with a way to make the user end up on the last page if the refresh while they are in a live topic. Currently they just stay on the current page they were viewing, and have to manually go to the most recent page)
Why not just:
Ignore the posts per page var while the user is staying in the thread and continually update the same page with new posts until the user leaves the page.
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