Miscellaneous Hacks - Unread Posts and Reputation Comments (welcome box)

This modification is no longer available or supported.

Note: The unread posts portion of this hack only works if you use the database thread marking system.

This will display the actual number of posts that are still considered unread by you (and will show up in a 'getnew' search).

Versions 1.22+ also display the number of new reputation comments since you last checked your usercp.

There is the option to count the unread posts since your last visit, or all posts considered unread. This setting reflects the divider in the 'getnew' search display. There is also the option to disable the unread posts display or the new reputation comments display.

All settings are located in vBulletin Options > Display Unread Posts and Reputation.

To install this hack unzip the xml file and import it using the ACP Product Manager.


History:

v1.11 : First Release for vb 3.6 - various changes.
v1.12 : Updated for Version Checking.
v1.13 : Phrases Updated.
v1.14 : Dependancies updated, URL's updated.
v1.15 : Minor phrasing changes.
v1.16 : Changes to the way displayed messages are built.
v1.17 : SQL Changes to use slave.
v1.18 : Fixed broken Index creation (on install).
v1.19 : Modified slightly to exclude moderated or soft deleted posts (unless moderator).
v1.20 : Duplicate line of code removed.
v1.21 : ATCS and disable options added.
v1.22 : New reputation comments added. ATCS removed as now unnecessary.
v1.23 : Bug fixes. Added links prefix setting.
v1.24 : Fix reputation comments not being marked as read.
v1.25 : Permission check updated to include 'canviewthreads'.

[mariocaz]

very very nice mod

[Phaedrus]

Originally Posted by midlandi

Can you help me please. I have this installed and is working great. I need to omit from the unread posts certain forums, I cannot find where to do this. I am aware of the code i need to amend, but fail to find where?? I have tried in the navbar template but cannot find, I search for do=getnew so I can edit but it only finds the other nav bar link for that.
Help!!

There is no need to remove them as users cannot search forums they have no access to and this mod uses the search function. It won't tell users about posts they can't see.

[joerns]

Great hack, thanks! Is it possible to exclude certain forums? I've got a whole lot of RSS feeds that drive the unread posts number through the ceiling. Alternatively, is it possible to specifiy which forums to track for unread posts? I think that would be a great feature...

[Paul M]

An excludes feature is on my list of things too look into at some point.

[JustAskJulie]

Installed, have database option enabled but still nothing shows up in the Welcome block.

[IrPr]

First special thanks goes to Paul Marsden for his mods specially this mod that im using for about an year on my major forum n my members luv this mod

i've about 70k threads, 700k posts n 140k members with 2k avg onlines in my forum but from some weeks ago my forum loads increases n when i analyze mysql queries i found that this query by this mod is killin my forum

SELECT COUNT(post.postid) as unread
FROM post as post FORCE INDEX (dateline)
...

Query uses INDEX but sometimes specially at forum peak it takes more than 2-5 sec which makes me turn it off

is there any optimize method for this mod Paul or with this huge posts its impossible ?

[Paul M]

I'm guessing that its probably members returning after quite some time that are doing this, so the posts being counted is quite high. It was a problem I hit a long time ago, and actually wrote a time limit into the code on our forum (we use a totally custom version of this, not released anywhere). If I think about it I'll see if I can incorporate that into the 3.7 version at some point. I'm afraid it will not get added to the 3.6 version as I never support more than one active version, and by the time I do this, that will be the 3.7 version.

[IrPr]

Originally Posted by Paul M

I'm guessing that its probably members returning after quite some time that are doing this, so the posts being counted is quite high. It was a problem I hit a long time ago, and actually wrote a time limit into the code on our forum (we use a totally custom version of this, not released anywhere). If I think about it I'll see if I can incorporate that into the 3.7 version at some point. I'm afraid it will not get added to the 3.6 version as I never support more than one active version, and by the time I do this, that will be the 3.7 version.

Thanks for answer,
Cant wait for 3.7.0 Gold

[frosch68]

how can i change the position of unread postings ? i want to show it in another template

thank

greetz
frosch

[deepmob]

see when I am click the new posts, i am getting this dropbox, why please tell me.

thanks