Activity Stream (NEW AND IMPROVED!)

[Glenn the Great]

I like that the stream auto refreshes now, but is there a way to make it not refresh with no new activity? The refresh with no new activity made the page blink and I subsequently scrolled to the top of the page only to find the same message that was already there.

That would require a complicated AJAX solution, as the web page would need to be able to communicate asynchronously with the server to know whether it needs to refresh, without actually refreshing.

There may be a plug-in for vBulletin out there that does just what you're asking for and more, considering that there is a lot of demand for real-time data in this Web 2.0 world of ours.
If we can find a plug-in that we like and feel comfortable with, we may try to implement it. Suggestions are welcome!

For now, all we did was add a simple Javascript timer that refreshes the page every 30 seconds.

[Xyvol]

For now, all we did was add a simple Javascript timer that refreshes the page every 30 seconds.

An annoying side effect of this is that it always returns to the first "page" when it refreshes. If I have clicked More Activity to read more posts, I have 30 seconds to do so before it refreshes and returns me to the original grouping.

I don't know anything about BBSes these days, but is there a way to force the page to refresh whenever someone submits their post?

[Nicholas Steel]

An annoying side effect of this is that it always returns to the first "page" when it refreshes. If I have clicked More Activity to read more posts, I have 30 seconds to do so before it refreshes and returns me to the original grouping.

I don't know anything about BBSes these days, but is there a way to force the page to refresh whenever someone submits their post?

Again, the webpage would need to be actively aware of forum activities in order to determine when to refresh. No such functionality was added (yet) so the best they can do would be to add a checkbox that allows you to toggle on/off the auto-refresh.