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#1

Covar

Covar

Awesome feature Ed/Dave. No more posting a topic only to find 5 other people beat you to the post.


#2

Dave

Dave



#3



Andromache

lol this thread was ninja'd


#4

Dave

Dave

From the developer:

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 amazing this is... And probably spontaneously combust.


#5

Jay

Jay

Ari Gold: BOOM


#6

Ross

Ross

I'm loving the auto-update... no more refreshing before submitting a long post to see if some other thing came up.


#7

Jay

Jay

I can't wait to see this feature for the next Transformers movie.


#8



Chibibar

this is awesome :)


#9

Hylian

Hylian

Thanks Dave :D


#10

North_Ranger

North_Ranger

I'm getting only red X's =(


#11

Espy

Espy

That's what you get for not being an American you commie you.


#12

Dave

Dave

I'm getting only red X's =(
Red x's where? I see your post about the front page, but do you get them in the forum?

What style are you using?


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