AJAX Recent posts

[Guillelmus]

How about adding some AJAX to the Recent posts view so that new messages would be loaded in real time? Propably doesn't require lots of code.

[Kindred]

may not require lots of code, but it would drastically increase the server usage for no real purpose...

[Biology Forums]

drastically

I don't think so. It's an excellent proposal actually.

[Suki]

drastically

I don't think so. It's an excellent proposal actually.

Yes it will be.

let's do some math:

50 active users viewing the forum index, every user will see this page for 1 minute,  the ajax call is set to refresh every 10 seconds.


1 user is going to do 6 calls every minute

50 x 6 = 300

300 hits every minute.

1 hour = 60 minutes

300 x 60 = 18 000


18 000  hits to the server per hour just for the forum index, not counting the profile, the messages and other stuff.



It's nice, indeed, but we must balance between "nice stuff"  vs "performance", in this case the nice ajax calls won't serve much if your users can't even see the page due to server under stress.

[live627]

drastically

I don't think so. It's an excellent proposal actually.

Why,, then, are shoutboxes server-killers? Gotta be careful about that refresh rate. This applies to any and all pulse-scripts.

There is a mod for this.

[Biology Forums]

drastically

I don't think so. It's an excellent proposal actually.

Why,, then, are shoutboxes server-killers? Gotta be careful about that refresh rate. This applies to any and all pulse-scripts.

There is a mod for this.

Or there could be a button to refresh, instead of auto.

[Kindred]

until you have 100 users online, all pressing that button at the same time....

[Guillelmus]

drastically

I don't think so. It's an excellent proposal actually.

Yes it will be.

let's do some math:

50 active users viewing the forum index, every user will see this page for 1 minute,  the ajax call is set to refresh every 10 seconds.


1 user is going to do 6 calls every minute

50 x 6 = 300

300 hits every minute.

1 hour = 60 minutes

300 x 60 = 18 000


18 000  hits to the server per hour just for the forum index, not counting the profile, the messages and other stuff.



It's nice, indeed, but we must balance between "nice stuff"  vs "performance", in this case the nice ajax calls won't serve much if your users can't even see the page due to server under stress.

Well, it shouldn't be on the forum index page, but on a separate new posts page instead.

[Suki]

It doesn't matter where it is located, it will still consume resources, perhaps not as much as if it were on the index.

Actually, being in a separate page kinda defies its purpose, as the user needs to click a button or a link to get to that page, might as well just go to that page whenever I want to see the recent post.  And that page already exists:

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=recent



As a mod it is a great idea.

[Joker™]

As a mod it is a great idea.

There is a mod for this.

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1284

[Guillelmus]

As a mod it is a great idea.

There is a mod for this.

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1284

Thank you for pointing this out! Went unnoticed... I still miss the ability to see individual posts in the ajax stream, but guess this is the wrong topic for it.

[Joker™]

Thank you for pointing this out! Went unnoticed... I still miss the ability to see individual posts in the ajax stream, but guess this is the wrong topic for it.

Your most welcome.

Regarding the mod you should be posting in the mod support topic itself over here.

Marking this topic as solved and moving it to Applied or Declined Requests.