Cap'n Refsmmat Posted January 3, 2008 Posted January 3, 2008 Today, on a whim, I installed a vBulletin plugin called vB Spy that allows you to watch new posts being made as it happens, without having to sit and refresh the New Posts page every five minutes. It even shows snippets of the posts. For your viewing pleasure, here it is: SFN Spy
Reaper Posted January 3, 2008 Posted January 3, 2008 Lets see how this works now (two windows open)..... wait, nothing happened on my side, strange. No wait, never mind, it seems to only work for other threads. That feature is awesome!
ecoli Posted January 4, 2008 Posted January 4, 2008 Excellent feature. Can we get this on "quick links" on the top bar?
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted January 4, 2008 Author Posted January 4, 2008 Lets see how this works now (two windows open)..... wait, nothing happened on my side, strange. No wait, never mind, it seems to only work for other threads. That feature is awesome! Posts in this forum have to be approved before they're visible, hence they don't show up in the Spy instantly.
ecoli Posted January 4, 2008 Posted January 4, 2008 this thread is under new post, but not the 'iSpy' feature.
blike Posted January 4, 2008 Posted January 4, 2008 Posts in this forum have to be approved, so they won't show up right away. DrDNA, that page (iSpy) updates in real time -- no refresh required.
Klaynos Posted January 4, 2008 Posted January 4, 2008 I like it... But why'd you have to go and TELL people!
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted January 4, 2008 Author Posted January 4, 2008 DrDNA, that page (iSpy) updates in real time -- no refresh required. DrDNA was referring to where the link to the Spy is in the toolbar -- under New Posts.
blike Posted January 4, 2008 Posted January 4, 2008 DrDNA was referring to where the link to the Spy is in the toolbar -- under New Posts.Doh!
DrDNA Posted January 4, 2008 Posted January 4, 2008 I like it! Except instead of simply reading and/or posting and leaving, I've already found myself waiting in anticipation for something new to pop up............whoops.....there goes another day......
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted January 4, 2008 Author Posted January 4, 2008 this thread is under new post, but not the 'iSpy' feature. In the New Posts dropdown menu, not the search page. I like it!Except instead of simply reading and/or posting and leaving, I've already found myself waiting in anticipation for something new to pop up............whoops.....there goes another day...... Quick, blike, run! They've figured us out!
blike Posted January 4, 2008 Posted January 4, 2008 I like it!Except instead of simply reading and/or posting and leaving, I've already found myself waiting in anticipation for something new to pop up............whoops.....there goes another day...... I'm finding it quite addicting as well
ecoli Posted January 4, 2008 Posted January 4, 2008 In the New Posts dropdown menu, not the search page. I'm looking in the New Post drop down menu, and it's not there. Perhaps I'm using a different SFN style?
blike Posted January 4, 2008 Posted January 4, 2008 Looks like you need to be using "New SFN Style"... We really should get rid of the other styles.
Dak Posted January 4, 2008 Posted January 4, 2008 what about that idea that either cap'n or atheist (don't recall) mentioned a while back of making the search results customisable, so you could choose which forums showed up in recent posts/newSpyThingy?
YT2095 Posted January 4, 2008 Posted January 4, 2008 any reason the last 3 at the bottom get increasingly Fuzzy or faded?
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted January 4, 2008 Author Posted January 4, 2008 any reason the last 3 at the bottom get increasingly Fuzzy or faded? Because it looks cooler to have them fade out, apparently. what about that idea that either cap'n or atheist (don't recall) mentioned a while back of making the search results customisable, so you could choose which forums showed up in recent posts/newSpyThingy? There are plugins to tweak New Posts, but none for the Spy. I could do it globally (make nobody see posts from a certain forum) but not easily per-user.
swansont Posted January 4, 2008 Posted January 4, 2008 The "get new posts in the last 6/12 hours" options seem to have vanished. The Spy feature doesn't seem to take their place under all circumstances.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted January 4, 2008 Author Posted January 4, 2008 It turns out that each of those options actually got the posts in the last day, no matter which increment of time you chose. It was a custom modification to a file that we forgot to re-do when vB was upgraded, I think.
DrDNA Posted January 5, 2008 Posted January 5, 2008 What happened to "New Posts", "Last 5 Days"? .....complain, complain, always complaining...........
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