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TerminalRaptor
Nov 6, 2012

Mostly Harmless

Awia posted:

would /you/ trust a goon?

Someone should draw a flow circle of what happens in this scenario.

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cowboy beepboop
Feb 24, 2001

N.Z.'s Champion posted:

i wrote an sa app. the smilies are cached locally and images can be turned off which works well in my 3rd world country. includes a pretty good saforums parser


it said alert(null) and then network error :(

N.Z.'s Champion
Jun 8, 2003

Yam Slacker
here's what it looks like on my phone (nexus 5, custom build of the app)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydQ_mZ5Pqho

so everyone just use my phone when you want to browse the forums

that app isn't something that i suggest anyone else use (and I didn't test on any other phones, you're right it's buggy), but i guess i'm trying to say that it only took a few months to implement most of the sa API (sa.lib.js) and the API isn't too big at all. so after doing that i have an idea of the complexity of replicating SA's features (as awfulapp devs would too...) and it seems that the effort required to make SA fast and cdn-friendly (which i think are the main problems) would be a few months work by one or two devs.

i don't think lowtax is asking for help though is he? he's just drowning in it

N.Z.'s Champion fucked around with this message at 12:08 on Sep 28, 2015

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
lol idk how hosed the db schema is but how hosed does it have to be to justify using awful apps to parse the html and push the data to a new schema

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



poasting while high doesn't affect ur poast count

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



let me use the HOT tag

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



bam for using the poo poo post tag

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



doom house pbp adventure

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



doom house php adventure

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



bring back fashion swat

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



weekly raffle to meet lowtax

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



german remake called doom haus

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



poast counts by weight not volume

N.Z.'s Champion
Jun 8, 2003

Yam Slacker

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

Cat Face Joe posted:

bring back fashion swat

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

Cat Face Joe posted:

bring back your band sucks

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

Awia posted:

lowtax give me read only access to the servers

I asked him this before but he never replied lol

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

N.Z.'s Champion posted:

i wrote an sa app. the smilies are cached locally and images can be turned off which works well in my 3rd world country. includes a pretty good saforums parser




I don't understand github how do in just download the thing?

oh no blimp issue
Feb 23, 2011

Valeyard posted:

I asked him this before but he never replied lol

i bet he gets a constant parade of goons going "ill help lowtax" and then running when they actually see what work is involved

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
he should just post the db schema to github or something.

TerminalRaptor
Nov 6, 2012

Mostly Harmless

Awia posted:

i bet he gets a constant parade of goons going "ill help lowtax" and then running when work is involved

fixed

Syncopated
Oct 21, 2010
When the forums went down for a couple of weeks a year or two ago, didn't he say that he used some database thing that was recommended to him by yospos dudes? think he blamed that for the site crashing

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
lol at trusting a yosposter with your computer business

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

Cat Face Joe posted:

weekly raffle to kiss lowtax

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

make a new rule for a subforum of your choice. the rule is strictly enforced for 24 hours then the person who proposed it is permabanned

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
discontinue the ignore feature as it is only used by cowards and those who do not post with honor

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

Stymie posted:

post with honor

As true posters dare

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

Stymie posted:

discontinue the ignore feature as it is only used by cowards and those who do not post with honor
quoting for all the bitchasses who have stymie on ignore

shitface
Nov 23, 2006

Sham bam bamina! posted:

quoting for all the bitchasses who have stymie on ignore

all three stymies and knuc. it's good

Catalyst-proof
May 11, 2011

better waste some time with you

Syncopated posted:

When the forums went down for a couple of weeks a year or two ago, didn't he say that he used some database thing that was recommended to him by yospos dudes? think he blamed that for the site crashing

he always blames everyone else for everything, all the time, even when they're his decisions to make

this is insanely consistent behavior of his over the past ten years I've been reading the forums

Catalyst-proof
May 11, 2011

better waste some time with you
tbh he seems like a bit of a perfectionist and it's really hampered the effectiveness of his decisions

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



Stymie posted:

discontinue the ignore feature as it is only used by cowards and those who do not post with honor

stymie was right

N.Z.'s Champion
Jun 8, 2003

Yam Slacker

Awia posted:

i bet he gets a constant parade of goons going "ill help lowtax" and then running when they actually see what work is involved

or they think that their techniques for 100s of users will still work @ webscale

popular sites must attract lots of flakes so i know lowtax has been hurt before, but he should open his heart to love again

N.Z.'s Champion
Jun 8, 2003

Yam Slacker

maniacdevnull posted:

I don't understand github how do in just download the thing?
here's an apk. enjoy the bugs and lack of testing edit: here's a feature list

N.Z.'s Champion fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Sep 28, 2015

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

Awia posted:

i bet he gets a constant parade of goons going "ill help lowtax" and then running when they actually see what work is involved

I just wanted read only access to post databases to run stats :(

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

Valeyard posted:

I just wanted to bbe a moderator :(

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
how could there be hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of work in the forums

features are bullshit


make thread
post reply
edit reply
quote

mods can probe
ban
permaban

buy avatar
emotion cone

I don't even know if there are other features

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
leper colony
archives
gas chamber
goldmine
rate thrads
forums cancer
gbs train
saclopedia

the forums are full of weird crap

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Sham bam bamina! posted:

leper colony
archives
gas chamber
goldmine
rate thrads
forums cancer
gbs train
saclopedia

the forums are full of weird crap

half of those though are unecessary. saclopaedia? make that a subforum, and if posting bad, poster probed and posts deleted (yes we can now delete posts)
gas chamber? just another forum
goldmine? just closed threads in another forum
rating a thread? childs play
gbs train? what the hell is that?
cancer? dont bother
archives? just old threads
leper colony - yes ok so theres a thing thats necessary andI forgot about

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Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
tbh i had maybe three or four actual items but that didn't make for much of a list :o:

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