Direct version history
Your forum in real time: replies appear while members read.
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1.1.0
ReleasedFirst store release: your forum in real time over Pusher or Soketi, with live threads, lists, counters and Resource Manager pages, a polling fallback, a daily budget cap and a test button in the Admin CP.- Added Live threads: new replies appear under the one being read, highlighted for a moment, or wait behind a new replies button when the reader has scrolled up. Edits, reactions and moderation states update in place.
- Added Here right now on threads and resource pages, and a typing line, with at most one typing signal every three seconds per member. Members who hide their online status are counted as guests.
- Added Live lists: new and bumped threads on forum pages, What's new, latest activity, sidebar widgets, members online and profile posts.
- Added Alert and conversation counters that move by themselves, and optional corner notifications for new alerts, which each member can turn off in their preferences.
- Added Staff bar counters for the approval queue and reports that change while the page is open.
- Added Resource Manager support, loaded only when it is installed: new resources, updates, reviews, ratings and download counts appear live on resource pages and lists, and live refreshes are not counted as views.
- Added Works with Pusher Channels or any self-hosted server that speaks the Pusher protocol, such as Soketi: host, port and TLS. Relay set to Automatic shares one connection with Messenger when both are installed, otherwise Direct uses its own settings.
- Added One Admin CP page that reads from top to bottom: status (live or not, relay in use, last answer, breaker, messages estimated today), a Send a test event button that shows the relay's HTTP answer with a hint, a how-to, then credentials and behaviour options. The secret is never shown again once saved.
- Added Polling fallback when no relay is configured or the relay does not answer, with a dot in the navigation that shows live or polling and returns to live by itself.
- Added A daily budget cap, 100,000 messages by default, above which pages poll until midnight UTC, and a circuit breaker that pauses publishing for five minutes after three relay failures in a row.
- Added Private channels only, each subscription signed by the server after XenForo's own permission check. Live events carry IDs, never content: pages load what changed through XenForo with the reader's permissions.
- Added Guests poll by default, with live or no updates as options. Background tabs disconnect after a delay you choose and catch up when they come back.
- Added Pages built by styles that lack an element Direct would update stay untouched, with no console error. Native XenForo components, light and dark styles, reduced motion respected.
