Installed a cool little forum plugin that will allow for live topics, this means if a topic is getting a lot of posts all at once then you will be informed if there is a new post in that topic that your posting in. A topic will remain live for a.
A topic will be live for 5 min after a user has posted in it - which means after 5 min of no one posting it will go back to being a regular topic again.
You will see a little icon next to the topic saying “Live Topic” if it is live
Works pretty well Havent been around recently when the forum has had a lot of people chatting all at once (one bad point about living in Perth Australia) so havent had the chance to see it in action until today.
Strongly considering raising the time a thread remains active though, 5 min seems a little short as far as my first impressions go.
hey can you install that plugin that shows what users are currently logged in for each sub forum? they have that on a few forums i go to and its kind of nice to see whos lurking.
Hah yeah we have that at NI which i like cus when peeps are arguing you can sit and wait for someone to reply. Of course theres the ‘Invisible Mode’ so that no-one can see you watching. Thats for the stealth lurkers.
Ill consider that, i pulled out the whos online section of the forums cuz it looked ugly - ill look at putting it back in when we get it looking more decent than the stock template Vbul provides.
Back on topic, about to extend the time a topic is “live” out to 8 min and see how that treats us
Hmm thats kinda weird i set the max posts to 0 (which is actually infinite) - so basically the page should just keep extending and extending limitlessly. Need to test this some more and tweak out the settings until they feel right for this forum.
Basically what that means though is that a new post has been put on the page and the first post would disappear to make room for that new post to fit in your browser.
I know i have certainly found this new forum feature useful so far, its nice to see the new posts that have popped up as you have been writing your response.
Havent been around recently when the forum has had a lot of people chatting all at once (one bad point about living in Perth Australia) so havent had the chance to see it in action until today.