New Plugin - Jabberbot

Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:34 am

New Plugin - Jabberbot

Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:34 am

Hello,

i made a new plugin for mybb. It's a jabberbot. It notifies you about new replies in threads you are subscribed or about new threads in forums you are subscribed.

How does it work? At first you need a valid jabber id in your user cp. Then under "user cp" -> "edit options" there is a new field under "Messaging and Notification" called "Enable Jabber Notifications for subscriptions".

Currently i have already tested it but i need some live feedback if it really works like expected.
So please tell me your opinion and if it is helpful.

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Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:14 am

RE: New Plugin - Jabberbot

Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:14 am

Sounds great!

I now added a Jabber account but none of my subscribed threads have been updated yet...

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Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:15 am

RE: New Plugin - Jabberbot

Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:15 am

Hah, and i got your response over jabber. You should get mine too, if you are subscribed.

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Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:26 am

RE: New Plugin - Jabberbot

Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:26 am

It seems I forgot to save after checking the checkbox

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Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:27 am

RE: New Plugin - Jabberbot

Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:27 am

Ok, then a next try.

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Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:31 am

RE: New Plugin - Jabberbot

Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:31 am

Cool, it worked this time!

I guess this is a much better idea than the RSS feed, since it gives instant notification!

Thanks a lot!

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Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:33 am

RE: New Plugin - Jabberbot

Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:33 am

That was the intention, yes.

Ok, i will wait another day for feedback before i release it as real plugin for mybb.

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Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:31 am

RE: New Plugin - Jabberbot

Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:31 am

I've already been using this feature on some phpBB3 forums and it is nice to see it here too. Thank you very much for this!

Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:32 pm

RE: New Plugin - Jabberbot

Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:32 pm

Due to a security hole i needed to disable it until it was fixed. Now it works again, but whoever has set "Enable Jabber Notifications..." needs to enable it again.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:23 am

RE: New Plugin - Jabberbot

Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:23 am

Works over-perfectly.

With that "over" I mean that there is one slightly devastating thing about it.

I saw the jabberbot thing last night, enabled it, and subscribed few themes.... to see how it works....

Well, I don't have Kopete running all the time, so when I started it today, my screen was overflowed with notify messages from jabberbot. It sent a separate notify for every new post instead of just sending a single notify "new post(s) in $THEME".

This might not look as a big problem, but imagine someone doesn't turn on jabber for a few days, and when that person finaly does turn it on...... well, you can imagine how would it fell to hear that 'new message' sound in kopete for 50-60-170 or even more times. (I subscribed only 3 themes and got 17 messages

), without being able to do anything else because of those f@#$%$ messages covering half of the screen.

And that sound ....I'll never ever turn it on again i swear...

ding,ding,ding,ding,ding,ding,ding,ding,ding,ding,ding,ding,......

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