Lack of interest AJAXify certain elements

[Mikey]

Just a suggestion, and one for the sake of prettiness, but there are several areas which could be AJAXified, such as the News Feed - it could be like the digg spy and auto update.

With the forum displays, when you click a sorting order, such as sort by title, it requires a pageload, can this not be ajaxified?

Now, I'm not saying "Pageloads are the spawn of the devil" (or am I?) but everything else is so smooth, I think these, even though they are cosmetic, will improve the general usability.

 

[dieketzer]

i reckon we should ajaxify 'recent activity' a la i-spy

 

[Digital Doctor]

Do you mean this Plugin ?

vBISpy - AJAX real-time feed of new posts/threads

After seeing the http://www.digg.com/spy application; I wondered if this could be done for vBulletin as well. I came across this webpage which had a "how to" on how they built a similiar application to do the same thing. Taking a page from their book (i.e. the code), I modified it for use with vBulletin.

During development, I also came across this post here on vBulletin.Org where the very subject had already been discussed.

So I put this together; a simple ZIP file with a single PHP script, three javascript files and 4 images.

Installation: . UNZIP the file into your forums directory . That's it!

Virtually all the code to customize the page is in the vaispy.php script; there are no plugins, no templates and no phrases. You do not need to do anything further; this should work right out of the box.

In your browser, open the URL: ht_tp://www.yourforum.com/forum/vaispy.php

You can see examples of this at:
ht_tp://ww_w.viperalley.com/forum/vaispy.php | ht_tp://ww_w.extremefitness.com/forum/vaispy.php

Note: I claim no ownership of this code except for the file vaispy.php - the rest of the files were using 'freely distributable' sources. As such, you may use these files as you wish, but please do not remove the copyrights.

source:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=125947

 

[Paul B]

Isn't this more or less the same as this suggestion?
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/suggestion-forum-spy-ajax-based-whats-new-auto-refresh.3556/

 

[dieketzer]

whats new is nothing like ispy.
i spy is not a list of threads, its an activity feed. its individual posts in the case of vb.

 

[Digital Doctor]

whats new is nothing like ispy.
i spy is not a list of threads, its an activity feed. its individual posts in the case of vb.

What is your experience with ispy ? What works and doesnt work with it ? Who would use it ?

 

[dieketzer]

on an active board ppl LOVE ispy. on vb they love it cos its the only thing like an activity feed. on xf the activity feed doesnt refresh, so people are either manually refreshing nonstop or they are using macro plugins to auto refresh. it just seems to be a no-brainer that the activity feed should refresh itself, otherwise its not really a feed at all.
as for a downside... well there isnt one. i cant think of a way in which it doesnt work.

 

[RobParker]

Would love this to be ported to XF. It'd really make XF stand out if this was included by default.

 

[lazer]

Yup, adding iSpy to xF would be an awesome move

 

[lazer]

Agreed.

I plan on doing this myself. It's a fairly straight forward and easy mod to do.

So, did you get anywhere with this Jason?

 

[Floris]

I put a meta refresh of 30 seconds on my recent activity, and load that full screen on a second monitor to monitor my web site activity.

But... I seriously would love to see someone do this. We're not a big board, so we can turn this on easily without affecting performance.

 

[lazer]

We use the current VBiSpy mod on a board with around 1,000 - 1,300 concurrent users with no performance loss.

 

[dieketzer]

i dont know why people think this would be so server-intensive.
ive ran ispy on a busy vb3.x just fine.

 

[digitalpoint]

The plan is to port the one we made one to XF:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=243429

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/spy.php

I can't give an exact timeframe, since I have about a zillion other things I'm working on too, but it's on the "to-do" list.

 

[lazer]

Good to hear Shawn, thx

 

[high1976]

would be really great to have it ported to XF, many thanks!

 

[RobParker]

I can't give an exact timeframe, since I have about a zillion other things I'm working on too, but it's on the "to-do" list.

Wondering if you've made any progress with this? Appreciate you're busy but thought it was worth asking

 

[mauzao9]

Auto-refresh or something like that, in the recent activity page would make much more sense.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Auto-refresh or something like that, in the recent activity page would make much more sense.

You do know about
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/digital-point-spy.22530/

 

[mauzao9]

You do know about
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/digital-point-spy.22530/

I don't like it, the recent activity page is more complete and nice to read. And it haves full updades even about the addons.