Who wants to test a new feature?

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Damocles

Damocles

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There is a new feature called "Live Thread" that will allow active users in a thread post using AJAX rather than constantly refreshing the page that they are in.

After a set number of seconds they are no longer considered "active" and would have to refresh and the board goes back to normal.

I can turn this off or on, and would like to see if it would be a feature we would use and how it acts.
 
Damocles said:
There is a new feature called "Live Thread" that will allow active users in a thread post using AJAX rather than constantly refreshing the page that they are in.

After a set number of seconds they are no longer considered "active" and would have to refresh and the board goes back to normal.

I can turn this off or on, and would like to see if it would be a feature we would use and how it acts.
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:dunno: just liven up the skin...this is so cookie cutter!
 
I think it takes 5 minutes. That might be too long a setting. I don't know how long it takes before it realizes...
 
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.

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.
 
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