Miscellaneous Hacks - [DBTech] Forum Live Feed & User Wall v1 (vB4) [AJAX]

Forum Live Feed & User Wall lets you see a continuously updated feed of activities on the forum, with a powerful set of customisation options for sources of information.

Uses
If you've wished for a Facebook-like feed for your forum, this mod is for you.

This mod adds 2 distinct features to your site. First a live feed showing actions performed by everyone on the forum, from new threads and posts to things like new avatars or signatures, your members can customise their feed and keep up to date with everything that's going on, right as it happens.
Secondly every user also has their own wall that displays what they have been up to. This lets users see what their friends have been doing and join in!
With advanced privacy configuration options and configurable preview options for each content type, this mod compliments other modifications like InfoPanels and produces a more detailed and verbose feed of the happenings on the forum.


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Translations available @ our forum
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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Complete Feature List

Lite

• Forum Sidebar block type
• Preview in Forum Sidebar
• Ability to turn off IMG tag parsing on both main pages and Sidebar
• Status updates (from Forum Sidebar or the Live Wall page)
• Content types for nearly all forum actions:
  • Posts
  • Threads
  • Avatar changes (Only if Avatars are stored in the file system!)
  • Signature picture changes (Only if Signature Pictures are stored in the file system!)
  • Username changes
  • Social Group discussion
  • Social Group discussion replies
  • Status Updates (From this mod)
  • vBLive Status Updates
  • vBArcade Scores
  • [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like: Button clicks for Posts
• Nobody / Registered Users / Contacts Only / Friends Only display options for each content type to control who you see feeds from
• Nobody / Registered Users / Contacts Only / Friends Only privacy options for each content type to control who can see your feeds
• Automatically refreshing via AJAX at controllable intervals

Pro

• Recent Entries page with more entries displayed, no auto refresh
• Ability to "favourite" stories and view them from their own page
• Comments system
  • Comment count in the main feed with link to comment thread
  • Ability to post comments in the comment thread
  • AJAX refreshed comment threads
  • Ability to delete your own/others comments with usergroup permissions
• Content types for nearly all forum actions:
  • Blog Posts
  • Blog Comments
  • User Notes
  • Visitor Messages
  • Profile Pictures

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[Alan_SP]

Originally Posted by thecore762

Basically what I am saying by that is that there is at least 4 seconds page render time difference.

I see difference only on first page load, not repeated.

Anyway, yes, optimizations if possible are always welcome.

[AURFSCAN]

Fillip & Iain

I'd like to see an option for the Entries per page (Forum Live Feed)

eg. show Last

1 hour
3 hours
6 hours
12 hours
24 hours

or similar..

and possibly simlilar option for User Wall

eg. show Last

1 week
2 weeks
1 month


else pagination up to a set limit


or similar

[DragonByte Tech]

That's sadly not feasible for technical reasons
It would create a lot of server load to check the date stamp instead of just fetching the x latest entries.


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by thecore762

I already posted this @ dbtech but I wanted to share this with the other users @ vb.org since probably some of you guys don't visit their site.

With Live Wall
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120222_6T_3AQ34/
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120222_B0_3AQ35/

Without Live Wall
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120223_5S_3B357/
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120223_ZD_3B358/

Basically what I am saying by that is that there is at least 4 seconds page render time difference.
It's pretty bad, really bad for me.

This is an excellent plugin, hopefully there will be some improvements done.

Here is what I put in the settings:


Entries Per Page 10 (def 20)
Refresh Rate 60 (def 30)

Time Between Status Updates 15 (def 5)

Since this was cross-posted here and on our forum, I'll share the results here:

Depending on the size of your forum database, having the sidebar enabled can add load time such as the numbers reported here.

Disabling the forum sidebar block for LW returned the load times to normal, so it is 100% safe to leave the mod enabled even if you don't want to take the performance hit the sidebar presents


Fillip

[thecore762]

^ confirmed.
That's 100% accurate.

[ProFifaLeagues]

@Dragonbyte,Is there any way we can alter this so that Nothing but the Status updates get added to the Wall???
Would be great for us then for our needs on site

[CoffeeLovesYou]

Convert this to 3.8.x
Please please please

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by rammieone

@Dragonbyte,Is there any way we can alter this so that Nothing but the Status updates get added to the Wall???
Would be great for us then for our needs on site

Yes, disable all other content types


Fillip

[ProFifaLeagues]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Yes, disable all other content types


Fillip

Would we need all members to do that Fillip or Is there a global way to do so sir?

[DragonByte Tech]

Do it in the Content Type Manager in the AdminCP.

Fillip