Personal Stickies

PHB

I was wondering if it's possible to do some funky coding magic to make it possible to get what I've termed personal stickies.

Is it possible, maybe within the options of the subscription, that it would make the thread always appear at the top of the page if you choose?

Cheers,
Dave.

Giblet

It is possible in other forums, it might be in the latest version of VB, or just not enabled here.

cornbb

That is an excellent idea.

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What purpose does this serve?

What if twenty subscribers all decide that their thread is 'OMG THIS IS SUCH A SUPER THREAD', we'd get the 'normal' stickies, then twenty personal stickies.

It would mean in default mode, there would be no non-sticky threads.

Smellyirishman

Sean, I think his idea is that only you would be able to see your "personal" sticky. So if 20 people had 20 personal stickies, and I had none, it would not affect my viewing, I would just get the mandatory stickies. Maybe I mis-read your post, but that's how I took it.

Not a bad idea, can mostly be handled by subscribing to threads though no?

B0X

Thats a really great idea, i'm not sure why i havnt seen this elsewhere either.

zAbbo

You could script this using Greasemonkey.

RSS for threads, now there's an idea.

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Smellyirishman wrote:

Sean, I think his idea is that only you would be able to see your "personal" sticky. So if 20 people had 20 personal stickies, and I had none, it would not affect my viewing, I would just get the mandatory stickies.

Ah, I see.

I get it now. Great Idea tbh.

Smellyirishman wrote:

Maybe I mis-read your post

Nah, you didn't. I didn't catch the drift of the OP at all, at all.

Terry

I'm waiting for the AH version of this.
Same title, but completely different content.

PHB

bumpedy bump bump

DeVore

If its an option in the new version of vB then I'm sure we would consider it, presuming it doesnt add a huge load to the servers. Right now we are preping for upgrading to the next version (afaik!)

DeV.

Sparky

Not that I have seen

Maybe a hack however

Crash

Tbh i'd wager it'd kill the servers

Boston

zabbo wrote:

RSS for threads, now there's an idea.

Oh dear god. I remember when boards had an RSS feed, it lasted two minutes.

David Michael

Boston wrote:

Oh dear god. I remember when boards had an RSS feed, it lasted two minutes.

Your input is noted.

Thanks.

CuLT

David Michael wrote:

Your input is noted.

Thanks.

Shit stirring noted.

Thanks.

Shiminay

&#231 wrote: »

Tbh i'd wager it'd kill the servers

AFAIK there's a DB hit every time you load a page to load up your subbed list on the top menu bar (to check for new posts). If one were to incorporate it into that system somehow, it may not be as crippling as you think. That said, it's been years since I did any database work

Boston

Kharn wrote:

AFAIK there's a DB hit every time you load a page to load up your subbed list on the top menu bar (to check for new posts). If one were to incorporate it into that system somehow, it may not be as crippling as you think. That said, it's been years since I did any database work

admittedly I'm not too up on RSS feeds, but don't they continuously poll a page looking for undates.

Hmm, you're idea seems good thought, as I understand it you're suggesting that when ever a page is loaded a db query is performed and then the update is sent via RSS feed to subcribers.

seamus

&#231 wrote: »

Tbh i'd wager it'd kill the servers

SELECT t.* from threads t LEFT JOIN usersubbedlist usl ON usl.threadid = t.id AND usl.userid = 1052 WHERE t.forumid = 10 ORDER BY usl.threadid, t.lastUpdate LIMIT 0, 40

Easy

tba

seamus wrote:

SELECT t.* from threads t LEFT JOIN usersubbedlist usl ON usl.threadid = t.id AND usl.userid = 1052 WHERE t.forumid = 10 ORDER BY usl.threadid, t.lastUpdate LIMIT 0, 40

Easy

What did you just say about my mom?!

Boston

seamus wrote:

SELECT t.* from threads t LEFT JOIN usersubbedlist usl ON usl.threadid = t.id AND usl.userid = 1052 WHERE t.forumid = 10 ORDER BY usl.threadid, t.lastUpdate LIMIT 0, 40

Easy

I like it make it so

seamus

I must stress that's pseudocode. I have no idea what the database looks like.

Boston

seamus wrote:

I must stress that's pseudocode. I have no idea what the database looks like.

I was wondering if you had some inside knowledge. Awh well theres goes my plan for using that query to leet haxor.