Shoutbox History

[nickemitchell24]

I know that this feature is available on the Admin CP, but many of our users want this feature to be accessible to them. The premise is that, currently, ProBoards only displays the last 20+ shouts. If a conversation gets heated or popular the thread for new people to discuss the topic quickly gets lost in the digital ether. Even the Admin CP only shows the last 200, which can also not be long enough in some circumstances.

This could be done by loading more of the stored messages on the shoutbox by scrolling or by keeping a link at the bottom that would pop out a window that would allow people to view the stored conversations. With the shoutbox being implemented by ProBoards I don't know how much flexibility there would be to implement this feature. But I know everyone on multiple forums I visit always begs for this to be possible as it is in many other forums.

[Kami]

As far as I am aware this would not be possible with a plugin; plugins can only access whatever data is present on the page and the non-admin panel version of the shoutbox does not contain that data. Additionally, I believe attempting to do this would require sending requests to the PB servers in a manner which is prohibited by the PB developer guidelines.

I’m not 100% certain though, so I’ll tag a couple of folks for you that will have a more concrete answer: Chris, Michael, Brian

[ᴘʀɪɴᴄᴇ ᴄᴜᴘɪᴅ]

nickemitchell24 if your request does prove to be unachievable, i would recommend looking into a chatbox service such as chatango which lets anybody read the chat history super super far back

[Michael]

I don't believe this would be possible as a plugin.

With that being said, you should just make a normal feature request for this on the Support Board. There isn't any guarantee that we would implement it but I don't see a strong argument against it right now.

[Peter]

It's possible, just an awkward one to do as there are a few steps to think about that add a lot more work. It's not a simple matter of just pushing a new shout (with validation) to the key and displaying it. You would also need to think about supporting editing or at least deleting shouts in the history (staff + user). Basic parser for displaying.

Was going to do it the other day when I saw this request, but then I thought it's not really a quick plugin to write, and my time is limited these days