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.
I Confirm this Solution; I installed the Latest Version of Live Topic without having installed the previous ones, and this File was missing on the vBulletin Installation; by Uploading this File the Posting Started to Show, (before the Postings were made but with Blank Spaces, that if copied and pasted contained the Post but Invisible on Screen); the problem was happening on FireFox and on Chrome, but not on Explorer 6.0; Is Very Important to Include that File on the Zip Package, because many users can be Experiencing this Bug caused by this Missing File.
My Best Regards.
That file is included in your vbulletin download package and thus there is no reason to include it in the download for this modification.
I'd like also to Report a Conflict of this Mod with "vBFavorites", and only by Disabling that Mod is that Live Topic works Fine.
Coders Shack, I Hope that you can Share with Us an Update with the Solution of the Bug of the Old Posting Hiding Problem; that is a Great Feature that would be nice to be able to Use.
My Best Regards.
I was having the same problem with live topic conflicting with Vbfavorite. I find that if you disable "Enable favorite posts" in your vbfavorite menu, it will work. Best of luck to ya.
That file is included in your vbulletin download package and thus there is no reason to include it in the download for this modification.
Is Not Included in the vB373 PL1 Package, Lynne.
Perhaps on the Latest Versions Yes, but Not in that Particular One, so for Users with the vB373 PL1 Version it'd be Very Useful to have that File on this Mod's Package (perhaps as an Optional Upload Folder and File in case is missing); I was Lucky to Find that Post that I Quoted and also to have the Previous Versions of this Great Mod (one of the Best Ones for vBulletin), but for other Users that don't have the Previous Versions of this Mod, it Won't Work Fine.
Perhaps on the Latest Versions Yes, but Not in that Particular One, so for Users with the vB373 PL1 Version it'd be Very Useful to have that File on this Mod's Package (perhaps as an Optional Upload Folder and File in case is missing); I was Lucky to Find that Post that I Quoted and also to have the Previous Versions of this Great Mod (one of the Best Ones for vBulletin), but for other Users that don't have the Previous Versions of this Mod, it Won't Work Fine.
My Best Regards.
This is a mod in the 3.8 section. If you are using the 3.7 version, you should be posting in that thread about not having it available. It IS available in the 3.8 download of vbulletin.
Okay, I came to realize that admins get glitched, so they are unable to see live topic work. I made a regular account and it works for that, but for my admin account it does not. I would like to figure out how to fix it so I can use it. Any ideas?
Okay, I came to realize that admins get glitched, so they are unable to see live topic work. I made a regular account and it works for that, but for my admin account it does not. I would like to figure out how to fix it so I can use it. Any ideas?
I'd guess you have some plugins that are admin only that are interfering with this mod.