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Omnimaga => Site Feedback and Questions => Topic started by: Darl181 on April 10, 2011, 01:36:20 am

Title: New Posts page automatic refreshing?
Post by: Darl181 on April 10, 2011, 01:36:20 am

I've wondered if it would be possible to have the New Posts page automatically refresh when a new post was made.  It would probably be disabled by default, but it could be pretty useful.

Would it be possible?

Title: Re: New Posts page automatic refreshing?
Post by: jnesselr on April 10, 2011, 10:40:14 am

Undoubtedly possible, but possibly very inconvenient.  I'm not sure how SpyBot does it, but it detects new posts.

Title: Re: New Posts page automatic refreshing?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 13, 2011, 01:17:45 am

I am against the idea. It would:

1) Make it extremly hard to use OmnomIRC from there
2) That page is kinda demanding on MySQL. The script was meant to display about 20-30 new posts, yet we use it for 200. If many people leaves a few copies of that page open while they're busy, in the end this could slightly impact on site speed on hours where the server Omni is hosted on gets a lot of traffic.

Title: Re: New Posts page automatic refreshing?
Post by: Munchor on April 13, 2011, 04:30:06 am

What I'd like is something like Twitter, it says the number of posts added and we can press and it refreshes OH JAVASCRIPT!!! But yeah it's most definitely not possible.