chuyskywalker
Admin
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In order to deal with a little bit of overflow in the queue lines, I've changed the way your browsers queue's you when visiting a players profile page.

Namely, instead of simply queuing the player upon hitting the page, you must now execute a small snippet of javascript code to get the player to be placed in the queue. This will stop webspidering from causing queue updates.

From your stand point, nothing changes at all. Just an FYI, however, sometimes people have JS off, blocked, blocked at a router (no idea how that works...) or their browser is just broken -- so for those few, you'll have to get that fixed (or have another person look at your stats page ;D) to get it updating.

Also, viewing your leader board will no longer queue every single person in the leader board.



For the webnerds here: ya'll have any idea what kind of thing is hitting my website with the referrer "x-gadget:///gadget.htm"? Google tells me nothing...
KEN-JENNINGS
I am all that is MOD!
+2,973|6602|949

chuyskywalker wrote:

This will stop webspidering from causing queue updates.
what is webspidering?
chuyskywalker
Admin
+2,439|6818|"Frisco"

Google/yahoo/msn/any-bot hitting the page in order to cache the results for searching, archiveing etc.
kylef
Gone
+1,352|6464|N. Ireland
I'll probably never take use of it, but thanks anyway
Mr.Dooomed
Find your center.
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So does that mean our Leaderboards are working now?  Oh masta' a'plez says they are!
Nature is a powerful force. Those who seek to subdue nature, never do so permanently.
chuyskywalker
Admin
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leetkyle wrote:

I'll probably never take use of it, but thanks anyway
That...doesn't make any sense.
chuyskywalker
Admin
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Im_Dooomed wrote:

So does that mean our Leaderboards are working now?  Oh masta' a'plez says they are!
No, still haven't heard back from GM
ATG
Banned
+5,233|6499|Global Command
Thanks Boss!
Mr.Dooomed
Find your center.
+752|6298

chuyskywalker wrote:

Im_Dooomed wrote:

So does that mean our Leaderboards are working now?  Oh masta' a'plez says they are!
No, still haven't heard back from GM
Damn! Well maybe YOU should start running their site, those lazy lazy chumps.
Nature is a powerful force. Those who seek to subdue nature, never do so permanently.
OrangeHound
Busy doing highfalutin adminy stuff ...
+1,335|6620|Washington DC

chuyskywalker wrote:

For the webnerds here: ya'll have any idea what kind of thing is hitting my website with the referrer "x-gadget:///gadget.htm"? Google tells me nothing...
Vista gadget subscription
chuyskywalker
Admin
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To illustrate, here's the most common "user agents" from the last 3 days:

245,209 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http: //help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)
176,264 Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma; +http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml)
150,131 Mediapartners-Google/2.1
128,423 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
108,602 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506)
95,154 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)


The highlighted ones are bots. That's a lot of bots.
chuyskywalker
Admin
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OrangeHound wrote:

Vista gadget subscription
That's what I figured, but I couldn't find ANY reference to it otherwise on the net.

As a follow up question: Who made a vista gadget for the site?
xgloryx
Member
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chuyskywalker wrote:

As a follow up question: Who made a vista gadget for the site?
Google does have the answer to that one, sorta:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion … 33330.html
http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail. … ec&l=1
FathomsDown
Member
+19|6622|England

chuyskywalker wrote:

This will stop webspidering from causing queue updates.
Are you having problems wih robots.txt being ignored then? Most of the major companies spiders are pretty good on that front.
chuyskywalker
Admin
+2,439|6818|"Frisco"

FathomsDown wrote:

chuyskywalker wrote:

This will stop webspidering from causing queue updates.
Are you having problems wih robots.txt being ignored then? Most of the major companies spiders are pretty good on that front.
I don't want them to *not* spider the pages, I just don't want them to cause queue updates. Which is what I did.
cowami
OY, BITCHTITS!
+1,106|6260|Noo Yawk, Noo Yawk

ATG wrote:

Thanks Boss!
ATG checks stats? I never knew.

ON TOPIC: Yay! I went from 55000th to 12th! And yet my stats only went up something like 100 points. VICTORY!

Damn, I need to start getting better.
https://i.imgur.com/PfIpcdn.gif
NiMhurchu
Suicide Operations
+13|6818|Germany
Just one question: will scraping stats via the API still trigger an update? Or, had that ever triggered an update? My guess is: yes, because otherwise the API wouldn't make much sense any more...

Edit: OK, you got me -- there were two questions.

Last edited by NiMhurchu (2007-05-23 16:26:23)

liquidat0r
wtf.
+2,223|6598|UK
Cool.
chuyskywalker
Admin
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NiMhurchu wrote:

Just one question: will scraping stats via the API still trigger an update? Or, had that ever triggered an update? My guess is: yes, because otherwise the API wouldn't make much sense any more...

Edit: OK, you got me -- there were two questions.
An oversight on my part. Yeah, it would bork the API's. Not a hard fix, however.
chuyskywalker
Admin
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Fixed.
NiMhurchu
Suicide Operations
+13|6818|Germany

chuyskywalker wrote:

Fixed.
Huzzah! Less than 5 min! :clap:
Ryan
Member
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chuyskywalker wrote:

For the webnerds here: ya'll have any idea what kind of thing is hitting my website with the referrer "x-gadget:///gadget.htm"? Google tells me nothing...
I don't think your gadget's are working.

Anyways, good work.
=Robin-Hood=
A stranger in the dark
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Ryan wrote:

I don't think your gadget's are working.
Stare in disarray...

/hands in motion for clarification?

@Jeff

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