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.
This doesn't work correctly. Now when I double post my post keeps reappearing through ajax effects and all as if it were a new post being called by Live Topic.
Wow... it just keeps on reappearing even after a page refresh.
Edit: and my post count has recently been increased by several hundred... I'm guessing every time it reappeared I had a post added to my count. Would be nice to have a fix for this.
that makes no sense unless you have a different version of the doublepost hack than me.
I installed and received no errors, but it doesn't appear to be working.
I have IE7 and FF open. I post as one user in a thread, switch to other browser logged in as another user and post in the thread and quickly flip back to the first browser. After about a second, I see a L/F added after the last post but before the "Post Reply" button. It appears it is trying to work, but the content isn't coming through.
I tried a default style also, no go.
Thoughts?
have you tried disabling plugins? (there are a few that conflict with mine)
this works fine on my test boards 3.7.4 and 3.8.0 (so its a forum config, or conflicting product)
I've created a Fresh 100% New Install of vB373 PL1 just to Test this Mod.
This are my Results:
When Testing it with Internet Explorer 6 (with Admin User) and Fire Fox (with Super Moderator User).
- When Posting Messages via Quick Reply:
When I Post on IE (Internet Explorer) on FF (Fire Fox) it refreshes the New Posts Really Well.
When I Post on FF then on IE Nothing Happens, so there should be an Issue with IE (perhaps on vesion 6?)
- When Posting Messages via Reply:
When I Post on IE a Message via Reply (Complete Editor), then on FF Nothing Happened.
When I Post Again on IE a Message via Quick Reply, then on FF Nothing Happened, so if a User Posts a Message via Reply it causes the Complete Stop of the Refresh Process via Quick Reply.
If I Refresh the Window on FF and go to the Last Post, and then Post a Message via Quick Reply on IE, then it Starts Updating Again the New Quick Replies, so that Confirms that Normal Replies Stop the Refresh Process on the Thread.
As Conclusions:
- Something is Not Working Well with this Mod and Internet Explorer.
- Normal Replies Affect the Refresh Process.
- Works Ok on Fire Fox, (but the Normal Replies also Affect the Refresh Process).
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01-19-2009, 02:54 AM
... so if your having any issues its due to something else.
