New Feature: Live Events!

I am proud to announce a brand new feature updating our event system: Instant event notifications.

Your events tab on the left hand side of the layout now has an event "counter" bubble with a number amount of events you have, and when you receive a new event, the counter will update automatically without having to refresh the page. These updates are LIVE!

Along with this, a larger speech bubble giving you the alert will popup at the left corner of your screen. See a preview below:

Live Events

This feature is experimental and we realize that bugs will come out of this. Please report all bugs for this in the Problems & Bugs Forum.

If you are having problems with this new event feature, please try and clear your browser's cache (ie: CTRL + F5)

Note from Keith: Make sure to take a look at your sidebar preferences! You might be able to change to 'Dashboard' because of this ;)

Updated Note: Sometimes the event dispatcher will not notice you are online, and therefore not send you a live notification bubble. It does this when you are in between page loads. So, if you get an event when you are in between page loads, you will not get the bubble. However, you will get the event on your next page in your events tab similar to the old system.

Posted by Excitement

12/27/11 3:53 am Leave Comment

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ROCK @

Quote by excitement:

I will be developing the option to turn it off for users who dislike the feature or for users who are content with using Events in their dashboard.

I'm grateful for this. When I'm online, I'm pageviewing enough that the instant thing doesn't really matter to me w/ my events in my dash as it is. :D

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Spatial @

...and now it's fixed itself.... :x

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Spatial @

Mine doesn't look like the preview image... My 'counter' is black plain text, and shows up in the dashboard, in the upper left, between the 'tab' and the first widget box.... it is always there, (at zero atm) and there is nothing showing up on the events 'tab' button except the word 'events'... its a good idea, but am i the only one with the "awkward blackhead counter" ?

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InSaNe @

I've been on "Dashboard" forever, since I have a widget at the top for events. I guess it's just an event counter for me?

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Jindra @

I notice some people don't see how this is useful, so I will say why I like the feature. Normally when I get an event it automatically switches from dashboard to event (if I didn't have it setup this way I would never think to check my events). If I'm chatting in the SB on a busy day I could completely miss part of the conversation while I switch back to dashboard or deal with the event. Then if I refresh the page before removing the event, it automatically goes back to event page and I lose dashboard again.

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Jane @

I love this new feature! Thank you so much, staff!

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Silvy @

This is AWESOME! :D
But is there a way we can remove the event directly from the bubble? Sometimes (mostly in the forums) when i'm doing something and the top of the page isn't visible, i have to scroll up, switch to events tab, delete, then go back down to do what i was doing again... It's a bit tedious :P

But other than that, this is an amazing feature, thank you so much for implementing this kind of thing :)

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StarShadow @

This is something I really thought I would love, but so far not so much. It's a nuisance to have to keep watching that tiny little number in the upper corner all the time. And for some reason I'm not getting any snowball events, last night someone threw a snowman snowball at me but I have no idea who it was because no event ever showed up. (so I had to hit everybody back:) )

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Excitement @

The Live events is not meant to be a game-changing feature, it is simply a nice little add-on that allows users to be more connected to the site at all times.
If someone comments on your profile, you now know instantly instead of having to wait until your next pageview (Of Course, the exception is in between pageviews, when you are no longer connected to the Event server and therefore cannot receive an event until the page loads...this is not something we can fix)

I will be developing the option to turn it off for users who dislike the feature or for users who are content with using Events in their dashboard.

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Witch @

I love this! Thank You!!

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gun @

I .... don't really get why? I dunno. This doesn't sound like it has much of a use lol. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

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Lantern @

I personally don't really see the need for this, but oh well xD

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TanyaSym @

I've been playing with it all day. I love it. Works great.

One thing is sometimes if I close an event box containing multiple notifications, the counter doesn't recognize it. However, if I close each event individually, it works fine.

Someone suggested maybe a coloured number so that it is more noticeable....that would be my only suggestion.

Awesome and thank you for making these improvements!

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Alchemy @

The pop-up won't appear for me. Also, I think being able to exit the popup would be nice.

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Damon @

Not really liking this. :( Usually I don't mind new features but I really don't like this... specially if we miss a notification and can't check out events board.

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Thalath @

I'll feel silly if this was already addressed, but when I delete my events and then go to a different page, they come back, and I have to delete them again. :s Is there any way to stop that? It did it before this update too but now it does it with ALL of my events and not just my shop one.

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dkchoclvr @

I have the Dashboard option, but if it ain't broke.....I don't want my event notifications pushing what's on the page down so I have to scroll down....

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knuddelkougra @

Hmmm... Now my speech bubble doesn't show up. But maybe it's my fault :/

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sabishisa @

I'm getting the weird pop-up too. It only happens when I got to remove an event. Either way, I hope there's a way to move this. I just don't see a need for the feature and I'd rather not have it there. I keep events on my Dashboard so I don't need TWO alerts on the same page in the same area telling me the same thing, you know? I'm hoping its made so you can choose to disable it soon.

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Jeryn @

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Great idea but This is what it looks like for me? Not exactly pretty

Posted by Nonchalant

Mine looks that way too! Id love to know how to fix it if anyone has discovered it.. :D

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FaerieIshee @

Turned off the smart version in favor of just dashboard to see how this works- works out wonderfully!
I love it~
Especially love that I'll be able to leave events up that I don't have time to deal with and not have to be annoyed with switching between events and dashboard manually~

Thanks for this!

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Pluma @

ah so THIS is what that little number on the dashboard was last night ;P

thanks for this! all the new features lately are really awesome!

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QueenOfImladris @

...don't usually get many events but this sounds like an awesome feature! =3

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Yuzu @

What a great idea! It seems to be working alright for me. :)
Hopefully we get all the bugs worked out soon. xD

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Vice_722 @

i love it!

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DADDY @

this makes me happy.

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knuddelkougra @

I LOVE this thing.
Works fine for me :)

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paranoia @

It isn't working for me.. the icon isn't over the event tab.

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Prussia @

I keep getting 1 event, when I have no events.

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PoeticEnigma @

I am also getting these really annoying pop ups when i delete an event now, latest version of Firefox for me:

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Iknimaya @

this is nifty.

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orangecake @

Is there a way to turn it off? I have the events widget onthe dashboard, plus when i delete events it pops up to tell me how many are left... i don't t know if that's because I'm browsing mobile or what, but it's s not ideal at all ):

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Hippogriff @

Haha, this is awesome! //I love getting notifications!

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Karissa @

I really like this :)

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Julia @

Awesome new feature!

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Lenayre @

This is pretty cool. :)

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Gift @

I love this feature, thank you very much!! :)

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Rena @

Awesomeness <3

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Anders @

Ohhh...I'm liking this

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Fray @

Hmm.. I'm really not sure what to say about this. XD Might be handy some? idk, but I have over 100 events on my dash that I just keep.

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Flight @

Interesting c: Might be a cool feature c: 'switches to dashboard to try it out'

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Tucker @

Looks neat but I have my events pop up on the left side and set my dashboard to never flip over.

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HERO @

Eh, I already have my events box on my dashboard, so .... xD

Neat idea, though?

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Asrodeia @

Oooo I like!

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Julie @

I too have the Events box in my dashboard but this a cool feature.

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Laurence @

Pretty neat~

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Nonchalant @

OH thats fixed itself now. GOnna stop spamming this :p Great idea!

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Nonchalant @

Also, I deleted all of my events, and they are still there. Delete them again and now I'm at -4.

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Nonchalant @

Great idea but This is what it looks like for me? Not exactly pretty :x

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Dreamcrystal @

This does make it easier, however for me I noticed the Number isn't actually beside 'events' but rather right by my name even after changing layouts. Is there away to fix this?

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GAMECUBE @

So much easier, thanks :D Though somehow I ended up with -1 event earlier. It went back to 0 when I refreshed though :)

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jean @

OMG I NEED THIS. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. ;-;

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Chansey @

This sounds really nice :D

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Thestral @

Well I like it. Thanks! :)

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Pixie @

I love this!! Thanks so much! :)

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CommanderShepard_714 @

Well this is really neat--thank you so much!

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joyceeee @

What FLUX said. Thanks so much for this!!

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CastlesInTheSky @

My adblock luvs Subeta.

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FLUX @

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. I hate when I have events I don't want to delete and can't see my dashboard, but if I switch it to smart I never check my events xD Thanks for this!

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GOSH_355 @

Cool. :]

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Oak @

good idea! thanks C:

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Reynbowz @

Cool, but I hope the new feature doesn't create insane lag D:

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Choco @

Not really something I need, but thanks anyway!

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Geth @

I did have Events as a widget so I wouldn't have the switching to-fro Dashboard / Events thing going on.
I'm one that doesn't care for this feature and will wait for the option to disable it.

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mishnunu @

Great! my F5 key will have a rest. I love Subeta!!

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Taters @

Wonderful! I love that I can keep it on my dash instead of having it change when I have events. Also means I can keep some events if I need reminders and all! Perfect 8D Adoring it already <3

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Song_745 @

This is brilliant, thank you!

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Skitter @

this is funny! i actually saw you guys do this. first i saw a number 1 text near that area.. and im like look a random 1. then i clicked another page and noticed you had updated! xD

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tea_819 @

Genius! I hate having to keep my events tab when I use my dashboard more often. Thumbs up!

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Excitement @

If the bubble is not correctly showing for you, then I suggest you do a hard refresh, and clear your cache with Ctrl + F5.

@Hearts - In the future you will be able to disable it. Right now we just want to test it out on everyone and get feedback about it. Thank you!

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Anasazi @

I was wondering what that number on top of my events was for?? Is the RSS feed link above the subeta banner part of the same ?

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Linsaiin @

Awwwweeesome

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May @

This is really great! It's a very cool feature haha

I do wish there was a way to turn it off, though? I know I totally sound like a party pooper but I actually have the Events box on my Dashboard (so that I don't have to switch between my Events/Dash). The little number is kind of distracting and not something I need!

But it's not ruining my life or anything haha but it'd just be neat to have an option to disable the live notifs.

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pax @

This looks great!
The number isn't parsed as a bubble for me though, something with the overflow may be wonky, as the event count goes to the next line. D;

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Accused @

I have one suggestion. ^^ The number and the little bubble it is in should be different colors. Perhaps red bubble and white, black, or electric blue number? :) That way it is more noticeable.

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Gray @

Nifty. Will events be logged now or are we just getting that number warning when we kill them?

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Marluxia @

This is awesome!
I was wondering why that 2 was there. xD

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MidnightShadow @

Thank you!!! I pretty much never see my dash because I am a procrastinator and use events to remind me to do stuff, so I basically stare at that all the time. I didn't want to switch from smart mode because then I was scared I'd always miss stuff new events. BEST OF BOTH WORLDS THANK YOU SO MUCH I LOVE THIS.

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