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 am also curious about posts disappearing. i cant have posts getting deleted. my forum is about tech write ups and things where each thread has good information all through it.
I got a blank page in my ACP when installing this addon (plus weird long loading times). Any ideas?
Yep...wait. The more posts you have the longer this action will take to install. It appends a column to the post table. We have 1.3 million posts and it took us about 20 mins to complete this action.
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Originally Posted by Evans Performan
i am also curious about posts disappearing. i cant have posts getting deleted. my forum is about tech write ups and things where each thread has good information all through it.
So far, we have not had this issue.
**REQUEST**
Template add icon or something that indicates at the top of a thread you are currently viewing a LIVE TOPIC.
Does this put heavy load on a big/traffic-heavy site?
Not as much as you'd think...
Plus, most big/traffic-heavy sites should have a little bit of head room to support it. I'm running it on a board that has 1000-1500 active users all day long and 13 million posts. I won't lie, server load increased, but the users love it
Plus, most big/traffic-heavy sites should have a little bit of head room to support it. I'm running it on a board that has 1000-1500 active users all day long and 13 million posts. I won't lie, server load increased, but the users love it
Plus, most big/traffic-heavy sites should have a little bit of head room to support it. I'm running it on a board that has 1000-1500 active users all day long and 13 million posts. I won't lie, server load increased, but the users love it
with that much traffic i'm guessing you do some sort of advertising. has this affected your revenue? my guess it cuts down on impressions and in turn clicks.
i have problem while installing this mod, it was installing for more than 10 mints then i got database error
when i am login to control panel its showing me this
Quote:
Database error in vBulletin 3.8.3:
Invalid SQL:
SELECT COUNT(*) AS count FROM post WHERE dateline >= 1249189200;
MySQL Error : Can't open file: 'post.MYI' (errno: 144)
Error Number : 1016
Request Date : Sunday, August 2nd 2009 @ 12:13:43 AM
Error Date : Sunday, August 2nd 2009 @ 12:13:44 AM
Script : http://********/admincp/index.php?do=home
Referrer :
IP Address : *************
Username : ************
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 4.1.20
when open forum, i got this
Quote:
Database error in vBulletin 3.8.3:
Invalid SQL:
SELECT post.pagetext AS preview,
thread.threadid, thread.title AS threadtitle, thread.forumid, pollid, open, postusername, postuserid, thread.iconid AS threadiconid,
thread.dateline, notes, thread.visible, sticky, votetotal, thread.attach, thread.lastpost, thread.lastposter, thread.lastpostid, thread.replycount, IF(thread.views<=thread.replycount, thread.replycount+1, thread.views) AS views,
thread.prefixid, thread.taglist, hiddencount, deletedcount
, NOT ISNULL(subscribethread.subscribethreadid) AS issubscribed
, deletionlog.userid AS del_userid, deletionlog.username AS del_username, deletionlog.reason AS del_reason
, threadredirect.expires
FROM thread AS thread
LEFT JOIN deletionlog AS deletionlog ON(thread.threadid = deletionlog.primaryid AND deletionlog.type = 'thread')
LEFT JOIN subscribethread AS subscribethread ON(subscribethread.threadid = thread.threadid AND subscribethread.userid = 1705 AND canview = 1)
LEFT JOIN post AS post ON(post.postid = thread.firstpostid)
LEFT JOIN threadredirect AS threadredirect ON(thread.open = 10 AND thread.threadid = threadredirect.threadid)
WHERE thread.threadid IN (0,240056,240024,239982,240049,240048,240043,23989 2,240044,240017,239958,239986,240047,240042,240033 ,240013,240034,239988,240045,240041,240046,240032, 239463,239967,239945,239582,239981,240027,240028,2 40026,239618,240019,239838,240016,240014,239735,22 1060,234006,239996)
ORDER BY sticky DESC, lastpost DESC;
MySQL Error : Can't open file: 'post.MYI' (errno: 144)
Error Number : 1016
Request Date : Sunday, August 2nd 2009 @ 12:14:43 AM
Error Date : Sunday, August 2nd 2009 @ 12:14:43 AM
Script : http://*************/forumdisplay.php?f=3
Referrer : http://**********/index.php
IP Address : *********
Username : *******
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 4.1.20
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