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Update 25th March: A new tab is under development. Read this comment for more information.
During the past weeks I've been developing a new mod. Kind of a statistics tab to your profile.
I first saw it on a SMF powered board (http://www.melbshuffle.com (check out the videos, that dancing genre rocks!)). This is basically a tab that shows the visitor (and yourself) when you're most active at the forum, and which categories/forums you're most active in, ordered by number of posts. Plus some other basic stuff, like how many topics you've opened, how many polls, posts, etc. Just have them all gathered in one place
I'll also try to make it compatible with AH Modding's Socialiser.
The part that I'm most satisfied with is the cache system! I ran a little betatest on my own board, where I have 7000 (counting) posts, and the whole tab took 30 seconds to render. Then I took use of the members cache, which by default is only used to store the friends and stuff for other mods. So the first time you open the tab, it looks at the cache and sees if there are anything in there. If it's not, then build the whole thing manually, which takes quite some time, and store it. The next time someone tries to use it, it's all pre-parsed in there, and shown to the user in under a second. And after a given time (set by the administrator) the whole thing would be ran all over again, to make sure all the numbers are accurate.
But before I can do the final touches to it, I think I'll have to most of the bugs to my last mod
As an end to this entry, I'll give you a little sneak peak!
That is taken from my developmentboard, so the graph look a little groggy. Therefor I'll post another picture taken from my live board. It's taken from an early state, but that's more like a normal graph should look like
EDIT:
Getting pretty close now! Here is a picture of the final product.
During the past weeks I've been developing a new mod. Kind of a statistics tab to your profile.
I first saw it on a SMF powered board (http://www.melbshuffle.com (check out the videos, that dancing genre rocks!)). This is basically a tab that shows the visitor (and yourself) when you're most active at the forum, and which categories/forums you're most active in, ordered by number of posts. Plus some other basic stuff, like how many topics you've opened, how many polls, posts, etc. Just have them all gathered in one place
I'll also try to make it compatible with AH Modding's Socialiser.
The part that I'm most satisfied with is the cache system! I ran a little betatest on my own board, where I have 7000 (counting) posts, and the whole tab took 30 seconds to render. Then I took use of the members cache, which by default is only used to store the friends and stuff for other mods. So the first time you open the tab, it looks at the cache and sees if there are anything in there. If it's not, then build the whole thing manually, which takes quite some time, and store it. The next time someone tries to use it, it's all pre-parsed in there, and shown to the user in under a second. And after a given time (set by the administrator) the whole thing would be ran all over again, to make sure all the numbers are accurate.
But before I can do the final touches to it, I think I'll have to most of the bugs to my last mod
As an end to this entry, I'll give you a little sneak peak!
That is taken from my developmentboard, so the graph look a little groggy. Therefor I'll post another picture taken from my live board. It's taken from an early state, but that's more like a normal graph should look like
EDIT:
Getting pretty close now! Here is a picture of the final product.
