New Reply Notifier for Threads?

[r3n3]

Is something like this possible for proboards forums?




This is on a forum, and when the button is clicked the page refreshes!

Is there anything similar to this?

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[David Clark]

Unfortunately this wouldn't be possible at this time, r3n3, since there's no way to tell (without refreshing) if any new posts were made while you're browsing a thread.

[r3n3]

Dec 5, 2014 10:00:29 GMT -8 David Clark said:

Unfortunately this wouldn't be possible at this time, r3n3, since there's no way to tell (without refreshing) if any new posts were made while you're browsing a thread.

It's not possible at all? Not even a Javascript or ajax? curious

[David Clark]

As far as I know, no -- sorry.

[Quozzo]

Its possible with AJAX but AJAX is not permitted and for good reason. Its not possible to know when a post is made unless an AJAX request is sent, therefore its impossible to determine when to send an ajax request. It would have to be every minute or so which would be the equivalent of opening the page every minute, even if there isn't a reply because the only way to check is to open the page. If you leave your browser on the topic then it will still be firing in the background.

It would be possible with a third party database such as firebase which could receive a message when a post is made to alert everyone to get the new posts, but as it its a third party site then anyone who finds access can see when certain posts get a new reply. They wont be able to see the content as that would be retrieved through the board via an AJAX request, but as AJAX requests are not permitted it's a futile endeavour

I made a mod for another board which checked the forum whenever someone made a reply and alerted the user about the new posts which was a good compromise as it wasn't timed but relied on user interaction.