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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[DragonByte Tech]

Ah, nevermind, I thought I had added it. It'll be added in a future version


Fillip

[christon26]

lol I thought maybe I missed it :P No worries, disabling the plugin is dead easy once I knew where to look

[CoffeeLovesYou]

Any way to download the older version? Some of my members are receiving weird issues such as;

When my member is about to edit the post, it refreshes and she ends up on the last page of the thread, and can't edit her post without going all the way back to the OP. I guess a way around it would be to increase the time (right now its 10 second auto refresh) but I guess this could get annoying if someone is reading the original post and someone posts a new reply and it auto refreshes while they're reading it and they get sent to that post...

[DragonByte Tech]

We have older versions available @ our website

Do note that older versions are not supported.


Fillip

[Alfa1]

After installation of this addon, I am getting an error on quick reply:

The following errors occurred with your submission

1. 1. Invalid Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator.

EDIT: This happens when the thread the user is in, is deleted between the user opening the thread and posting a reply.

Fillip, is it possible to only allow specific usergroups to have this function? If so, can you please explain how to do this?
I have only found a way to ban usergroups from using it, but not to allow them. And that's a big difference if additional usergroups come into play.

Also: when a new post becomes visible through a page refresh, the screen shocks and then the post is of a different width than the rest of the thread.

It would be nice if new posts fade in. Such effect would make the function look much more dynamic and modern.
Is there anything that can be done about the page shocking?
How can I resolve the post width issue?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

After installation of this addon, I am getting an error on quick reply:

The following errors occurred with your submission

1. 1. Invalid Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator.

EDIT: This happens when the thread the user is in, is deleted between the user opening the thread and posting a reply.

That's not an issue with this mod, that's vBulletin default O.o

What did you expect would happen if the thread was deleted? A new one created? A reply to a non-existant thread being inserted?

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Fillip, is it possible to only allow specific usergroups to have this function? If so, can you please explain how to do this?
I have only found a way to ban usergroups from using it, but not to allow them. And that's a big difference if additional usergroups come into play.

That's the only available option unfortunately.

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Also: when a new post becomes visible through a page refresh, the screen shocks and then the post is of a different width than the rest of the thread.

It would be nice if new posts fade in. Such effect would make the function look much more dynamic and modern.
Is there anything that can be done about the page shocking?
How can I resolve the post width issue?

New posts do fade in

The issues you are describing does not happen on a default skin, it sounds like your custom skin is using a different postbit wrapper which is not compatible with this mod.

That being said, we use the exact same code as vB does with its Quick Reply, do you see similar issues there?


Fillip

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

That's not an issue with this mod, that's vBulletin default O.o

What did you expect would happen if the thread was deleted? A new one created? A reply to a non-existant thread being inserted?

Good point. So strange, because in over a decade it must have happened to me before. Anyway, probably a freak coincidence then.

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

That's the only available option unfortunately.

Thats a major issue for me unfortunately. As my big board is very active I want to allow donating members (additional usergroup) to have this function as a donating benefit.

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

New posts do fade in

The issues you are describing does not happen on a default skin, it sounds like your custom skin is using a different postbit wrapper which is not compatible with this mod.

I'm not using a custom skin, but I am using various addons, Maybe there is a conflict.
Strangely enough I see post fading in now, but the width is still to narrow.
I am using Lightspeed WebServer with Litespeed cache. Maybe this is an issue.

After install my site came to a crawl.
In the last 10 hours I have received 52.000 bug reports:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.7:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT postid, userid, title, pagetext, visible, dateline
FROM vb_post
WHERE postid >= '1155511'
AND threadid = '188950'
AND visible = 1
AND post.userid NOT IN (13501,14017,14306,14464,14561,13729,16618,7877,18 548,18779,40365,19464,40888,3271,54650,54575,55645 ,55666,34356,57806,56309,61409,68393,91619,92291,9 1071)
ORDER BY postid ASC;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'post.userid' in 'where clause'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Monday, July 9th 2012 @ 05:21:46 AM
Error Date : Monday, July 9th 2012 @ 05:21:49 AM
Script : /forum/ajaxthreads.php
Referrer : /forum/showthread.php?t=188950

Does this give you an idea about whats going on?

One of my members reports this:

When i click on a thread and begin reading after 5 seconds the whole thread goes away i only get seconds to read before it goes away.
it happens on any thread, im assuming any thread that is open anyways, im aware it reloads every 5 seconds, but i dont know how to view the words if there is like a hide/show thing. i was on last like 2 days ago and nothing was wrong, ive been gone and not done anything new on my cpu, i wasnt even on it, i use google chrome,

EDIT: keeping esc key pressed seems to stop the page from disappearing

I'm testing your product out. If I can get it to work, then I will go for BFO.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Does this give you an idea about whats going on?

I've re-uploaded the Lite version with updated files


Fillip

[Alfa1]

That's fast.

Thanks.

[Alfa1]

The new version does not automaticly refresh. New posts do not load.

Please add a usergroup permission for Automatic Updates Enabled and Manual Updates Enabled.