Miscellaneous Hacks - Live Topic

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Live Demo:

Live Topic 1.07b Demo (you must be logged in, and the topic must be "live")

Videos: 1.00b 1.06b

watch the damn videos... ^_^

Description:

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.

Found a bug? Want to request a feature?

Live Topic - Project Manager

Installation:

This is take less than 3 minutes to install, takes longer to notice its amazing feature. (you need multiple people to be active in the same topic)

Upgrade:

[1.01b to 1.XXb] Uninstall the product, then reinstall it. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

[1.02b to 1.03b] Overwrite files, upgrade product (dont install product)

[1.03b to 1.04b] Uninstall the product, then reinstall it. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

[1.04b to 1.05b, 1.05b to 1.06b,1.06b to 1.07b] Upgrade the product. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

Works With (FF2, FF3, IE6, IE7, IE8, SF2, SF3, CHROME):

vBulletin [3.8.X]

get the vBulletin [3.7.X] version here

INCOMPATIBLE HACKS:

• USC
• PassiveVid (1.x)
• gXboxLive
• Topic (incl. Blog) of the Week
• Marquee Text

Versions:

1.01b
1.02b

fixes

safari 2 support
safari 3 support
google chrome support
added live topic icon on new posts page
fixed security issue, strongly suggest upgrading!

changes

added live edit (to avoid a performance hit i had to add two rows to two tables in the database)
added external style sheet

1.03b

fixes

fix double post
phrase notification
fixed an edit bug for people with table prefixes

changes

ability to change interval in ACP

1.04b

fixes

javascript error for guests
fixed live topic activation (first poster to raise a dead topic)

changes

auto quick reply focus after post

1.05b

fixes

css flaw
js error for unsupported browsers (random)
fixed chrome issue

changes

edit notification - thanks to nso
rebuilding some of the original logic to hopefully prevent product conflicts

1.06b

fixes

fixed a little javascript issue that had to do with displaying posts
uses GPC cleaner now

changes

limit the number of ajax posts on the live topic (example 40) and fade them away.
changed the way the hooks are used
tightened up everything a bit

1.07b

fixes

fixed a bug where the live topic notification always making an ajax call

changes

support user ignore list
changed the way the javascript logic worked (hopefully there are less compatibly issues) added support for IE6 and IE8

1.10

hmm

{Mark As Installed}

{Don't forget to vote for Modification of the Month}

[darknusens]

Very nice mod! *Marked as installed. One thing is saw wrong though, on the readme.html it says:

Then go to your admincp and install the product ('product-livevideo.xml')

But the only XML file there is:

product-livetopic.xml

Just a heads up if it hasn't been said already. If it has sorry bought that.

[pspcrazy]

Only issue with this so far is that when a page ends, there is no notification to go to the next page, it just ends leaving the user ending. Other then that it's great thanks

[Wonksta]

I've got a pretty ugly problem at the moment, love the hack btw but I can't figure out what is causing this.



It just wont parse the images and stuff I circled before displaying the new post. It only happens with Live Topic addon when a new topic is quickly posted or I make a quick reply...

[Lynne]

As I said on vb.com, use something like the firebug plugin for firefox to check the image paths and see what is wrong.

[Wonksta]

Originally Posted by Lynne

As I said on vb.com, use something like the firebug plugin for firefox to check the image paths and see what is wrong.

Smart!!

Turns out a single image dir had changed structure since our migration to a dedicated server. Thank you Lynne!

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by SighK

Smart!!

Turns out a single image dir had changed structure since our migration to a dedicated server. Thank you Lynne!

I love firebug! It's very useful in debugging stuff. Glad you figured it out.

[Frederik10k]

Great mod!

INSTALLED

[ricardoNJ]

Excellent!!!

[citeman]

I think the idea is fantastic but it will have problems working with large very active forums. I was thinking maybe if static files could be used to create and update the threads instead of pulling it from the database it may perform better.

I mean when posts are posted in Live Topic store them as compressed html files in a folder and then have the ajax script check for new posts in the thread and pull those files and display them. This could also get rid of those nasty incompatibilities. Since the post will be stored with everything processed it would just be a matter of pulling and displaying the html.

I am thinking about having this developed properly - please contact me if you could work out something like this. I would bear the development cost and of course it would be free for all.

[Daky]

uninstalled - not worth trying no more---- still same problems ;(