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Title: [ANN] bitcointalk top10 hot topic scraper
Post by: phelix on September 02, 2011, 02:50:27 PM

please check it out: http://bitcoinx.com/charts

it is based on data from the last 24h:
  • number of posts
  • number of users that posted
  • average userId (Newb compensation; at the moment 1 old dragon counts 3.5 newbs)


note that despite the big images the site is still a relatively small download (~135k).

I am aware there is a lot to criticize about this approach but I consider it quite useful for a quick glance of what is going on.



Title: Re: [ANN] bitcointalk top10 hot topic scraper
Post by: m0w3r on September 02, 2011, 08:46:07 PM
Like it, nice way to see bigger threads easier.


Title: Re: [ANN] bitcointalk top10 hot topic scraper
Post by: BitcoinPorn on September 02, 2011, 08:48:30 PM
Make it a top 20 and throw some Google Ads on that thing for yourself, you deserve it.  Nice job, slick and simple. 


Title: Re: [ANN] bitcointalk top10 hot topic scraper
Post by: phelix on September 03, 2011, 08:23:37 AM
thanks!

I want to leave it with 10 as some people might be afraid it will concentrate threads too much (similiar to objections in this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25593.0 where I suggested a good post button)

for advertising I am still hoping to find some good bitcoin based advertisers. maybe I will give google ads a try in the meantime.


Title: Re: [ANN] bitcointalk top10 hot topic scraper
Post by: Vladimir on September 03, 2011, 08:25:30 AM
Nice!, it seems like a list of posts to make sure you do not post in. Which actually makes it even more valuable.


Title: Re: [ANN] bitcointalk top10 hot topic scraper
Post by: phelix on September 03, 2011, 11:53:51 AM
Nice!, it seems like a list of posts to make sure you do not post in. Which actually makes it even more valuable.

I expected a comment like this  ;)

Some of the threads really are very noisy  ::)


Title: Re: [ANN] bitcointalk top10 hot topic scraper
Post by: phelix on September 09, 2011, 09:05:08 AM
Nice!, it seems like a list of posts to make sure you do not post in. Which actually makes it even more valuable.


you are going up the top10   zlol


I did some experiments with more/less newb compensation and users/posts rate but it has only a small impact on the list.






Title: Re: [ANN] bitcointalk top10 hot topic scraper
Post by: phelix on September 19, 2011, 12:15:09 PM
should posts like this be banned from the list?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=42640.0


Title: Re: [ANN] bitcointalk top10 hot topic scraper
Post by: deslok on September 19, 2011, 01:31:25 PM
should posts like this be banned from the list?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=42640.0
That and anything that gets locked


Title: Re: [ANN] bitcointalk top10 hot topic scraper
Post by: phelix on September 23, 2011, 09:32:54 PM
did some cleaning up. off-topic and non english boards are not in the top 10 any more. neither are the market boards.

locked topics are not immediately banned yet but will take a couple of hours to fall out of hot topics.

it may take a couple of hours for these changes to fully propagate through the list.


Title: Re: [ANN] bitcointalk top10 hot topic scraper
Post by: phelix on October 19, 2011, 09:41:29 PM
scraper was frozen for the last 19 hours or so because of a weird char encoding problem. should be fixed.

are we done with "alternate cryptocurrencies", should I take them out? maybe not quite yet. if I find the time I might give them their separate 3-5 topics...