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New Posts page automatic refreshing?
« 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?
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Re: New Posts page automatic refreshing?
« Reply #1 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.

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Re: New Posts page automatic refreshing?
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: New Posts page automatic refreshing?
« Reply #3 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.