Green Post Tracker

[Virgil Firecask]

I've thrown together a quick and dirty Goblinworks employee post tracker.

It's at bare-minimum html right now, but I hope to clean it up a bit when I have some time. It grabs GW employee posts every 5 minutes.

http://green.Thornkeep.com

I hope you guys find it useful.

Also, in case people have missed it in another post: I wrote a full leaderboard with everyone, not just the top 40 that updates every 15 minutes.

http://landrush.Thornkeep.com

[Shane Gifford of Fidelis]

Nifty.

Dunno how easy it is to implement, but telling who posted what post would likely be pretty handy.

[T7V Jazzlvraz]

Virgil, with this and the Leaderboard-grab, *are* you the most-valuable person on the boards? It's getting hard to argue.

[Virgil Firecask]

Shane Gifford of Fidelis wrote:

Nifty.

Dunno how easy it is to implement, but telling who posted what post would likely be pretty handy.

Well, the main page just shows the threads. If you click on those, it will take you to every GW employee post in the thread. If, instead, on the thread page you click the date, it will take you to the most recent post.

[Virgil Firecask]

Oh, and I'm also slowly working on an in-depth map that will allow you to click on a hex and get all information about it.

However, that requires a lot of manual data entry as well as tossing in all of the code to handle all of those layers.

Work in progress

[Shane Gifford of Fidelis]

Ah, derp. Didn't get to play around with it much. That's even better then. :P

[AvenaOats]

Awesome, the only the word! TU.

[Proxima Sin of Brighthaven]

I'm not taking back the drunken Ewok comment.

[Nolondil Leafrunner]

Virgil Firecask wrote:

I've thrown together a quick and dirty Goblinworks employee post tracker.

It's at bare-minimum html right now, but I hope to clean it up a bit when I have some time. It grabs GW employee posts every 5 minutes.
http://green.Thornkeep.com

I can't thank you enough for that, it's an invaluable tool.

[Guurzak]

*awards Virgil one "get out of being eaten by zombies free" card

[Lord Regent: Deacon Wulf]

Sees the card being given to Virgil

Ahhhh now I know what happened to those cards.

[EoX Hobs]

Great job Virgil. Thank you for doing this.

[Guurzak]

Make it searchable!

[Virgil Firecask]

Planned. But not for this weekend.

[Guurzak]

how about this weekend?

[Guurzak]

Found a couple of threads which have dev replies but are not indexed on the green tracker:

here
here

[Virgil Firecask]

It actually cheats... it doesn't read threads. It reads user RSS/Atom feeds and parses the XML from that. It also ignores anything not in the PFO forum. And it does all of this every 5 minutes.

It doesn't actually know what a thread looks like. Other than manually entering in the entries, I don't have anything to add it in.