Live update of alerts and inbox

[Mick West]

The site will now poll the server constantly to check for new alerts and messages, and show an indicator on the tab, like:

You can disable or modify this under your preferences:
https://www.metabunk.org/account/preferences

This is a new version of a feature I had to remove some time ago. Hopefully this one works out.

 

[Svartbjørn]

sweet. Wont the constant polling cause the site to lag though?

 

[Mick West]

sweet. Wont the constant polling cause the site to lag though?

CPU usage went from around 14% to around 17%, and that could just be random traffic fluctuations. The polling only happens with logged-in users.

 

[Svartbjørn]

CPU usage went from around 14% to around 17%, and that could just be random traffic fluctuations. The polling only happens with logged-in users.

Ah ok cool. Thanks Mick.

 

[Hama Neggs]

Just saw that and wondered how I hadn't seen it before. One odd thing now is that when going to "alert" pages, the scroll down to the "New" post doesn't always stick. It goes there, but then flips back to the top of the page. Chrome.