Author Topic: BLF Notification for post replies (quotes) (Read 3708 times)

Heitmeyer� · January 19, 2017, 05:37:22 PM

Is it just me, or is there no way to get notifications on the forum when someone quotes you in a post? If not, then that should really be added.

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Foxscotch · January 19, 2017, 07:19:35 PM

there is no way and there likely never will be

elm · January 19, 2017, 07:27:53 PM

Quote from: Foxscotch on January 19, 2017, 07:19:35 PM

there is no way and there likely never will be

It's possible to set up a server to monitor forum posts/pages and use a client sided plug-in to receive notifications. But it's not viable, nor worth the time and effort.

Scout31 · January 20, 2017, 08:36:19 AM

Glass actually has an incomplete system to do this. I started on the feature and scrapped it as I didn't think it'd be very popular, although some of the code is still there.

Rolfey95 · January 20, 2017, 10:45:24 PM

It would be rather interesting and youd have to ask more people, but I have to ask, would you only get the notifications if you had the game open?

Foxscotch · January 21, 2017, 12:43:07 AM

Quote from: elm on January 19, 2017, 07:27:53 PM

It's possible to set up a server to monitor forum posts/pages

I'd say it isn't, actually. with the number of pages you'd have to check, by the time you're checking them often enough to get notifications in a reasonable amount of time, cloudflare will have blocked you

elm · January 21, 2017, 02:35:51 AM

Quote from: Foxscotch on January 21, 2017, 12:43:07 AM

I'd say it isn't, actually. with the number of pages you'd have to check, by the time you're checking them often enough to get notifications in a reasonable amount of time, cloudflare will have blocked you

I'm heavily experienced in scraping data from websites which is simply what this is. So with that said, it actually is possible.

Swollow · January 21, 2017, 02:53:15 AM

Quote from: elm on January 21, 2017, 02:35:51 AM

I'm heavily experienced in scraping data from websites which is simply what this is. So with that said, it actually is possible.

plus you can just get whitelisted by badspot, badspot lifted hardcore scraping prevention stuff for my web servers ip on request

additionally, it might be faster to run a search for your name with the word "quote" and check those topics

Gytyyhgfffff · January 21, 2017, 08:15:17 AM

just make a bot that looks at https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?action=recent every few seconds

RTBARCHIVE · January 21, 2017, 10:35:55 AM

Quote from: Scout31 on January 20, 2017, 08:36:19 AM

Glass actually has an incomplete system to do this. I started on the feature and scrapped it as I didn't think it'd be very popular, although some of the code is still there.

You cannot do this in-game, because the Blockland site is now in https:// form. Blockland cannot handle https:// websites.

Scout31 · January 21, 2017, 10:44:24 AM

Quote from: RTBARCHIVE on January 21, 2017, 10:35:55 AM

You cannot do this in-game, because the Blockland site is now in https:// form. Blockland cannot handle https:// websites.

I never said it was in-game.

The system reduced the amount of queries by checking the forum index first and seeing if any boards had changed in the first place. It made it only a handful of queries instead of at least one per topic which would definitely be a problem with cloudflare.

Gytyyhgfffff · January 21, 2017, 12:13:58 PM

ok this stuff should be easy so i'll try doing it

Gytyyhgfffff · January 21, 2017, 02:56:10 PM

server side of it is done which was the hardest part

Foxscotch · January 21, 2017, 11:39:57 PM

Quote from: Gytyyhgfffff on January 21, 2017, 08:15:17 AM

just make a bot that looks at https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?action=recent every few seconds

every time a thread like this comes up I've completely forgotten about that page and get worried about the idea of constantly checking every active thread

Tudoreleu · January 22, 2017, 03:05:15 AM

i'd definitely love something like this. i've missed so, so many replies to my posts