At the moment, the user have to refresh/reload the page to see the current votes after he votes on an answer.

The idea is that the vote totals on all answers should be updated/refreshed in the background, when a user clicks to vote.

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japerry’s picture

japerry
Location KOMK
commented
Status: Active » Needs review

With #1940644: Vote sum not displayed until page is refreshed fixed, it seems like this issue is fixed as well. Please verify with the latest release of the Q/A module.

ezra-g’s picture

ezra-g commented
Title: Vote totals update in the background after the page has been loaded » Vote totals update on regular interval in the background after the page has been loaded
Status: Needs review » Active

As a clarification: I think this is still active and not fixed by the referenced issue. #1940644 when completed should show the updated vote total without refreshing the page, but only after the user votes and only once.

Updating the issue title to be more clear.

japerry’s picture

japerry
Location KOMK
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If this was to be implimented, i can think of two possibilities, both having implications...

1) use a node.js system that pings back drupal when there is a change. Obviously we don't want to introduce that type of complexity to commons.

2) have the div auto-refresh every few seconds with updated data. I worry that this will cause issues with caching and performance if multiple people are on a page and this div is refreshing for everyone.