Neocities

jackomix

5 years ago

to anyone who has the time and resources, if you look at a neocities event (a post or a follow message) it shows when it was made. click on that and it'll take you to the event url. here's the neato thing, it'll say "event_id=(insert number)" in the url. when an event is made, it doesn't have a randomized id, but goes up by one. meaning you could change the number to 1 and see the first event. (more in the comments)

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jackomix 5 years ago

what i'd want someone to do is to make a script that goes through all the id's (there's almost 900k) and then basically make an entire history of neocities. however, this also means that you could use a script, basically play the higher or lower game to find the latest id, and show the last 100 events. meaning you could have a feed that would show the last 100 events on neocities.

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jackomix 5 years ago

and if you are baller, have a database with a script that updates it constantly, then write some code to recreate the profile activity, and then you could filter it. so we can "kind of" already filter our feeds, but it takes too much time and resources. lol (felt like this "essay" was a waste of time but there's a cool fact about neocities)

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hosma 5 years ago

Aren't events from sites without a profile redirecting you to the site instead?

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roseknight 5 years ago

a script that downloads all those events sounds like a quick way to get flagged as attempting to DDoS the site and get ip banned lmao

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lmbdfn 5 years ago

I’ll make a repo tomorrow or the day after. Could be fun. Language will be Ruby if anyone wants to contribute..

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lmbdfn 5 years ago

The issue would be with post that may be edited after they’re saved in database

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lmbdfn 5 years ago

@hosma: try ?event_id=1 it is an event from Kyle’s site

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jackomix 5 years ago

@roseknight well, if i have text posts on page 2 and i'm on page 1, the extension would just basically shorten the amount of events on page 1, and doesn't bring any events from page 2. it's not that i find it cluttered, i just wanna see text posts since they're obviously more social than constant site updates.

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hosma 5 years ago

@lambdafun: Oh, I see! You can still see the event if you view it from a site that does have a profile, interesting!

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roseknight 5 years ago

im definitely interested in this -- keep us all updated on the progress! in the meantime, maybe someone should make a pull request to the github and add the option to turn off site follows themselves...

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roseknight 5 years ago

wHOops i deleted one of my older messages damnit mobile neocities

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shakespr howtobecomeanangel

5 years ago

i actually love this site, the angel aesthetic is my favorite 💕

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