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}

[carubmun]

Any suggestions on how to set this up in the admin panel in order to produce the least hit on the server?
Every time i turn this on and have more than 15 users on a thread my site slows down to a crawl and my server load averages skyrocket to around 8-10 across the board.

[PGAmerica]

Originally Posted by PGAmerica

I just installed this and left the default configuration. I went to a private thread and posted several messages back and forth with a friend of mine.

This is not doing anything at all, other than acting like a regular thread. It is not "Live Updating" anything.

Ideas?

Any answer to my question?

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by PGAmerica

Any answer to my question?

Perhaps you have another mod installed that is conflicting with this. Several are mentioned throughout the thread.

[PGAmerica]

So, it seems to be incompatible with PassiveVid (1.x). I tried this test in a thread with zero video links. Is it still incompatible? Is there ANY work-around here?

[PGAmerica]

I just read back and saw this post.

Originally Posted by Leo Brazil

I use Passive Video with Live Topic and no problems at all on 3.8

It seems that although PassiveVid is on the incompatible list, it is NOT incompatible. I am not running any other supposed incompatible mods.

Any answers?

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by PGAmerica

I just read back and saw this post.


It seems that although PassiveVid is on the incompatible list, it is NOT incompatible. I am not running any other supposed incompatible mods.

Any answers?

Take a look in your error_logs and see if there is anything there. I know I had to change some settings in mod_security in order for it to work correctly for my site. I found that out by reading the error messages for my mod_security.

[PGAmerica]

I got this working by turning off PassiveVid. However, I am getting this message from my other admins.

This is causing problems. Jamming peoples computers - interrupting them by blocking their posts when they type etc. Works really well in some threads but in the threads where there are a lot of people posting at once and people are heavily chatting it has a big issue.

Is there a way to limit this mod to specific forums only?

[Jaxel]

having a problem with this mod... if a topic is live... quick reply returns an error.

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Zune 3.0; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618)
Timestamp: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 22:51:56 UTC


Message: 'P.0.style' is null or not an object
Line: 2
Char: 4364
Code: 0
URI: http://www.8wayrun.com/clientscript/livetopic.js

Does not return an error on dead topics. This only happens when Maximum Visible Posts is set to 0. If I set it to 100, I have no problem.

[kcdj]

What is the hook that is used to make the "live topic" gif show up when a thread is live? I would like to add this to the VBAdvanced portal latest threads also.

This would be great so that users can see a topic is live from the portal.

[jarosciak]

Installed it, now my forum stopped working, getting an error:
MySQL Error : Incorrect key file for table '.\grf\post.MYI'; try to repair it

I am trying to repair the database now.