Introducing the Shoutbox mod for vBulletin 5 and 6, a simple, interactive chat feature for your community that enhances user engagement and interaction. This mod provides an easy-to-integrate Shoutbox where members can send real-time messages and interact with each other. 😎
Key Features:
Compatibility:
Price:
$50 (Branding-free)
Shoutbox Settings in AdminCP:
Shoutbox Module Configuration in Sitebuilder:
Version History:
v2.5
v2.4
v2.3
v2.2
Demo:
This mod is also installed here at:
Price:
$50 (Branding-free)
Coming Soon:
Stay tuned for upcoming updates and more features. This mod in in continuous development to improve it based on your feedback, so feel free to share any ideas or concerns.
Final Thoughts:
The Shoutbox plugin is a great addition to any vBulletin-powered community. It encourages real-time interaction and adds an extra layer of engagement that your users will love. I hope you enjoy using it as much as I enjoyed developing it!
Thank you for your time, and I look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback!
Key Features:
- Real-time Messaging: Shoutbox messages are automatically fetched based on a customizable polling frequency, ensuring new messages appear without refreshing the page. If a user switches tab or application, or minimizes the browser window, the polling is paused to prevent unnecessary requests to the server. When they come back to the tab where the Shoutbox is loaded, it resumes and immediately attempts to fetch new messages.
- Infinite Scrolling: Offers users the ability to scroll to the top to automatically fetch older messages and to the bottom to fetch new ones.
- Messages Per Scroll: You can set the maximum number of messages per scroll to fetch older and new messages by batch..
- Customizable User Permissions: You have full control over who can post and view messages in the Shoutbox,
- Flood Check: You can configure if flood check is enabled to minimize spamming and which usergroups can bypass flood checks.
- Message Pruning: Automatically remove messages older than a set number of days to keep the Shoutbox clean and manageable.
- Message Maximum Length: You can specify the maximum length of a Shoutbox message.
- Message List Maximum Height: You can specify the maximum height for the Shoutbox message list in pixels before the vertical scrollbar appears.
- Resizable Input Area: Users can resize the message input box for convenience, especially for longer messages.
- Emojis and Links: Users can insert emojis and posted URLs are automatically converted into clickable hyperlinks.
- Help Feature: A built-in Help button provides a modal with instructions for users on how to interact with the Shoutbox effectively.
Compatibility:
- Compatible with self-hosted vB5 and vB6.
- Not compatible with vBCloud as this mod requires uploading a custom API and creating a new database table which are not allowed in vBCloud.
Price:
$50 (Branding-free)
Shoutbox Settings in AdminCP:
Shoutbox Module Configuration in Sitebuilder:
Version History:
v2.5
- Fixed compatibility with vB 6.2.1.
v2.4
- Resolved a bug introduced in v2.3 affecting vB5.
- This version is optional for vB6. The Shoutbox will function correctly with or without it as long as v2.3 is installed.
v2.3
- Fixed issue in vB 6.1.3 where "simpleversion" was removed by vBulletin from the templates.
v2.2
- Fixed misplaced online icon when posting the very first Shoutbox message.
- Fixed garbled username in online status tooltip text (e.g. "%1$s is online now") for the first Shoutbox message on page load. This was caused by delayed rendering in templates employed by vBulletin.
- Fixed PHP Warnings generated by Shoutbox API.
- Toolbar buttons provided for inserting Bold, Italic, and Underline.
- Toolbar buttons provided for inserting Quote, Emoji, Smiley, Image and User Mention.
- For mobile and tablet devices, the Emoji button is not present since inserting emoji is already available in the virtual keyboard.
- Quote button is also available above each message to be able to easily quote an existing message.
- URL Preview is also available if you enabled it in Settings > Options > BB Code Settings. It should work the same way it works in forum posts where it shows URL Preview if the URL is in its own line.
- You can configure to show the latest messages at the bottom or the top.
- You can configure to show the message input box and toolbar buttons at the bottom or the top.
- You can configure which usergroups can delete any messages.
- You can configure which usergroups can delete their own messages.
- You can configure to show or hide the avatar.
- You can configure to show or hide the online status icon.
- The message input box auto-grows as you type your message with multiple lines.
- For mobile and tablet devices which don't have a Shift key in the virtual keyboard, pressing the Enter key inserts a line break instead of sending the message. This allows mobile and tablet users to insert a line break in the message. For desktop, pressing the Enter key still sends the message and pressing Shift+Enter inserts a line break.
- When you update a setting in Settings > Options > [vBMods.rocks] Shoutbox That Rocks Settings, users who already have the Shoutbox module loaded will be automatically prompted to reload the page for the changes to take effect.
- Initial version.
Demo:
This mod is also installed here at:
Price:
$50 (Branding-free)
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Coming Soon:
Stay tuned for upcoming updates and more features. This mod in in continuous development to improve it based on your feedback, so feel free to share any ideas or concerns.
Final Thoughts:
The Shoutbox plugin is a great addition to any vBulletin-powered community. It encourages real-time interaction and adds an extra layer of engagement that your users will love. I hope you enjoy using it as much as I enjoyed developing it!
Thank you for your time, and I look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback!
But that's an easy tweak. Thanks again for the product!
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