One of the more annoying problems I've found with the Our Umbraco forum is when member's simultaneous respond to a topic. Well, usually this annoys other members when I get there first ;-p
A way around this could be to have a small panel listing who else is viewing the same topic. i.e. "Member's also viewing this topic"
For example, if I noticed that dandrayne was also viewing a new topic about an XSLT problem, I'm pretty sure he'll be answering it ... so I'd hold off until I saw his reply ... and then respond accordingly (or not, because he's most likely solved it!)
Code-wise... is there anything we can do with the "CachedMembers()" method (hashtable)?
Forum "member's also viewing" functionality
One of the more annoying problems I've found with the Our Umbraco forum is when member's simultaneous respond to a topic. Well, usually this annoys other members when I get there first ;-p
A way around this could be to have a small panel listing who else is viewing the same topic. i.e. "Member's also viewing this topic"
For example, if I noticed that dandrayne was also viewing a new topic about an XSLT problem, I'm pretty sure he'll be answering it ... so I'd hold off until I saw his reply ... and then respond accordingly (or not, because he's most likely solved it!)
Code-wise... is there anything we can do with the "CachedMembers()" method (hashtable)?
Any thoughts?
Thanks, Lee.
I would advice against this. If you see me viewing a topic, you'll simply write your own answer in order to beat me to it!
On a slightly more serious note: Good idea!
Seems like a good idea to me, but it does speak well of the forum that this is even an issue in the first place ;-)
How would it work if e.g. I had multiple tabs open? Not being a c# dev I have no idea how this would be implemented
Dan
Re: multiple tabs ... unless it was AJAX'd up, it would probably just display who was viewing at page-load.
Probably need to speak to Morton (or other uForum devs) to see how this could be integrated.
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