Mini Mods - [DBTech] Follow User v1 (vB4)

What is Follow User?
Follow User from DragonByte Tech is a modification designed to allow members to follow one another in different social aspects of the forum. When a followed user completes an action such as a new post or a new thread, the followers receive either an email and/or PM updates based on their preference.

Follow User allows users to follow one another and get notifications when the member they follow complete certain actions.

Email and private messaging notifications, usergroup permission controls, and privacy options are all included in this product.

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What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

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Major Features
Ability for users to follow each others posts / threads with a pm or email notification.

Privacy: Users can make it so their following is private.

General Settings:

• Option to toggle the Navtab on/off for vB v4.1.x
• Option to toggle the Quick Links and Community menu links on/off for vB v4.1.x
• Option to toggle plugin on or off.
• Ability to enter the closed reason if you turned the mod off via the above option.
• Option to hide the version number in the footer.
• Option to define who sends the PM notice.
• Option to show the PM senders signature in the pm sent to followers.
• Ability to choose which usergroups are allowed Private Follows.
• Option to show the users follow/following stats in the postbit.
• Ability to choose seven different locations to show the follow/following stats in the postbit.
• Option to show the users avatar on the Follow User settings page in the usercp.
• DBTech Affiliate ID support.

Usergroup Permissions:

• Can Be Followed
• Can View User Follow
• Can Follow

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of Show Thread and product pages which includes:

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

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Tyran1

Since you think wrong, many have still vB3 in use.

The statistics don't support your conclusion.

vBShout (vB4): 894 installs
vBShout (vB3): 173 installs

APTL (vB4): 1168 installs
APTL (vB3): 84 installs


As you can see, the amount of vB3 installation we have is a fraction of our vB4 install base. Going by the "Downloads" counter reveals a similar pattern.


Please do not assume that we know nothing about the ratio of vB4 to vB3 users of our own products - it's our job to know these things. Thank you



Fillip

[Jennifer2010]

Wonderful product. Marked as installed!

Request:

The ability to add a nice little "Follow User" button (which would appear in postbit, signature, wherever)

I installed but users wouldn't even know this exists unless I linked them to the follow users page, where they have to manually enter in a username to follow (which is difficult for the users who have exotic usernames)...

Thank you!

[DragonByte Tech]

That has been requested before and is under consideration for future versions.

Chris

[Jennifer2010]

I ended up having to disable this mod as it was causing severely high server load. (Specifically, mysql)

We're on Linux/Apache, fcgi, PHP 5.3.21, vb 4.2.1

Our load averages went from under 2.00 to up to 35.00+ after enabling the mod.

Would love to know if anyone else has had this problem and what the fix may be.

Thank you

[DragonByte Tech]

No one else has reported such an issue with the mod. I am not sure why it would produce that on your setup.

Chris

[DragonByte Tech]

Update

Hotfix: PHP 5.4 Compatibility fixes


This does not guarantee the mod is error free on PHP 5.4, but it will take care of the reported errors. Thank you all for your reports



Fillip

[giorgioarmani]

Going to give this a try, sounds interesting...

[webmastersitesi]

Does this works with 4.2.X ? seems to me interesting mod.

[DragonByte Tech]

I do believe so


Fillip

[BgHurt]

So anything further on getting a follow button from the user profile screen or even integrate it into your hover mod as well?

Also on the popup when you click on a users name in a thread.

Thanks for another great mod. Just need some more bells and whistles.