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Follow users on Bitcontalk (posts and/or topics)

Why
I've seen the idea several times now, so I decided to create something. The last user who requested a feature to follow users was SM23031997 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5196998.0), I don't remember who suggested it first.

How to use it
Post the userIDs of the users you want to follow in this topic, inside code-tags. Start with "P:" to follow their posts, and/or "T:" to follow their topics.
Your followed user list will show up on https://loyce.club/follow/youruserID.html (http://) (you'll have to wait up to an hour for the first update).

Example
In English: I want to know when satoshi (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3) makes a post, and when theymos (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=35) creates a new topic.
The results can be found here: loyce.club/follow/459836.html (https://loyce.club/follow/459836.html) (for convenience, you can add your own link right under your code-tags).

Result
      https://loyce.club/other/follow.gif

All followers
See loyce.club/follow/ (https://loyce.club/follow/)

Updates
Every hour (I may change this later depending on the number of users).

Restrictions

• If someone else follows the same user already, you get retroactive results. Otherwise only new posts are shown.
• If you follow "posts", that includes "topics" started by the same user too.
• History is kept for 7 days.
• I'm not scraping post-titles, only topic-titles.
• I won't register title changes (due to caching)
• If you remove your post in this topic, your updates end (but the file won't be removed).
• To change who you follow, you can either edit your post, or create a new post in this topic

Notifications
If you want notifications, you can use a third party tool such as Visualping (https://visualping.io/).

Be nice
Don't try to abuse this. I don't want to make a blacklist, but I will if I have to.

If something breaks, please post here.

Please test/use this :D

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See [overview] LoyceV's useful data on Bitcointalk (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5145594.0) for more of my forum-related topics

Reserved

T:35
T:234771
T:459836
P:3

Off topic, but can you do this, @LoyceV?

Following back anyone who follows me 🤣 this week only! (they do this on all other social media).

Nice bot, any plans to link it to telegram or something?

The follower count should now be a condition to advance in ranking. Activity + Merits + # of Followers

@LoyceV
Great idea creating this! I also remember several threads and posts were different members requested such an option in the past.

No. I wouldn't know how to do that anyway.

Now let's see if they're actually going to use it. So far only one tester (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5204188.msg53170553#msg53170553), and not a single topic created by the users he's following.

I noticed a bug: I'm currently also creating "empty" follow pages for anyone who posts here without making a request. I'll fix that soon. Fixed.

tyvm LoyceV you're a star
muh link https://loyce.club/follow/479624.html

Following theymos' new topic (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5204528.0) didn't work. It turns out Admin has tricks: while the post/topic (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5204528.msg53180798#msg53180798) was created at 56:06 (MM:SS), my scraper (http://loyce.club/archive/posts/5318/53180798.html) only picked it up at 59:57 (this should have been within a few seconds).
I think theymos might have moved it from a hidden board to a public board, because the next post number (http://loyce.club/archive/posts/5318/53180799.html) was picked up by my scraper at 56:31 (as expected)).
So theymos' post must have been published a few minutes after being created, and by then it was no longer the newest topic, so my scraper assumed it was posted in an existing topic.

Theymos' topic is missing from my list-of-new-topics:

I'm not sure yet how to tackle this without doing additional scraping.
I now check if a topic is one of the 20 newest topics, this should allow for approximately 1 hour of "tricks".

Instead of having your script update a file on your server, your script would make an API call whenever a trigger is hit (someone creates a thread/post that you are 'watching'). Here is an article (by telegram) about telegram 'bots' (https://core.telegram.org/bots), and here is the telegram API documentation (https://core.telegram.org/bots/api).

I agree it would be cool addition, but I really don't have the time to figure it all out now. I (still) have other things on my list that I've wanted to complete for a very long time but never got to.

Follow me, mate, whenever you're in the mood for a daily portion of cynicism and bitterness. Further on, just another impressive move, LoyceV. Well done!

http://loyce.club/follow/131361.html (BPIP (https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=Timelord2067)) (Ranking (http://loyce.club/trust/ranking/131361.html))

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(DT update log (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5117330.999))

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Do I have to add new UID's in new posts, or just update this one? (am testing out with a couple of names)

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(Not really sure where else to put this)

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Or this:

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I am in.

Either one (edit or new post) should work.

Bug: DdmrDdmr's topic is shown as my topic. I'll have some time to look at it later.
And suchmoon's topic here (http://loyce.club/follow/2003859.html) was started by yahoo62278.

Update: what failed, is that my scraper didn't catch yahoo62278's new topic as being a new topic. Instead, it assumed suchmoon's post was the one that created the topic. I'm not sure yet what's the best way to fix this.

I missed 907 posts yesterday, anything in that that should have been followed won't show up:

It is a pain in the ass if I kept searching and scanning their post each and every day. Gladly I found your tool in B&H section. Gotta help you find some bugs and recommendation.

Maybe I can share this in our local to help you gather more users/testers if you allow me to do so.

Adding a space didn't work, but I've fixed that. See http://loyce.club/follow/1289002.html for your list.

Sure, go ahead.

T: 459836
P: 538922

My last fix broke more things... I'll try to fix it now, but it's going to take a while as I'm changing my approach.

Well no worries. It's a super thing and I for one have every faith.

T:35
P:98986
T:164822
P:51173

I think I fixed it, but I need more new posts and topics to test it.

Links to topics created before my fix may be lost.

T:35
T:459836
T:1269701
T:355846
T:234771
P:3

Unsure if I'm a bit slow or something here, though I'm coming over from Piggys little quote notification bot, wanted to know how / If it'd be possible to see if someone quotes me or replies to one of my post. Rather then the regular notify button, as that goes away after the one email.

Thanks Loyce, I appreciate it.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5209773

Ah look at that, I'm a bit slow. Hehe, thanks Loyce!

There seems to be a glitch in #7 http://loyce.club/follow/479624.html

Thanks, it's a nasty one that keeps popping up. It's caused by some changes in the environment after moving to AWS, and it only happens when running from a cronjob. I haven't been able to find a real fix, and the workaround needs to be applied to every affected case individually.
It's fixed now, thanks :)

Cøbra (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=249495)'s username has caused me so many problems :P

There's a small glitch in the system - I haven't checked the others on this page: http://loyce.club/follow/131361.html but my mobile alt has posted twice in the last week [1a (https://archive.vn/oAlK7)], [1b (https://web.archive.org/web/20200316024451/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile&u=2640757&sa=showPosts)] yet it's coming up that no one has posted. [2a (https://archive.vn/VO2jG)], [2b (https://web.archive.org/web/20200316024424/http://loyce.club/follow/131361.html)]

Interesting: I have this post archived (http://loyce.club/archive/posts/5401/54010510.html), so it shouldn't have been overlooked. I don't know what went wrong, and unfortunately I don't have the time to check/test it now.

That's OK - no rush I haven't used the page for a few days now.  I figured it might go into hibernation if not used.,

This service got stuck a few days ago, but it works again :)

I'm not sure if anyone's even using it. Should I keep this working?

T: 131333
T: 881377
P: 881377
P: 35
T: 35
P: 234771
T: 234771
P: 3

Bump!
Is anyone even using this?

From time to time I do, yes.

I was wondering if this: https://loyce.club/follow/131361.html

could be added to this: https://loyce.club/profile.html?id=131361 or even this https://loyce.club/profiles/13/131361.html please?

I wasn't planning on doing that, since only a few people use this.

All good - was just a thought bubble.

(Am posting this here in case you haven't received a notification elsewhere)

I'm using Tor and have refreshed over the last thirty minutes to different locations and keep getting the same response.

e.g. https://loyce.club/profile.html?id=2705665

"Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site. We can’t connect to the server at loyce.club."

I just noticed this, and I don't know why :(

It seems that all your services are down. Your 'home page' and search page for viewing unedited posts are available, but all pages with actual data are inaccessible.

Looks like a DNS issue. Not sure how the root servers work with these newfangled TLDs but it appears that the whole .club thing is down:

https://get.club
https://nic.club

Same error.

Edit: it's working again.

That's just bad! Is Zuckerberg running it or something? :P

For me it works again through Tor, but not (yet?) on my own computer. It works again :)
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/loyce.club shows it's up too.

The good news is that AWS just keeps running, so none of the notifications (or other data) should have been lost.

Hi LoyceV,   

there are a couple interesting people I would like to follow.  Is this still working?  And is it the only way to follow?

Judging by my own list (https://loyce.club/follow/459836.html), it still works. I haven't used this in a while though, and I don't even know if there's an active user left.
Just post in the correct format to try it out :)

It's the only service I know, other than manually checking a user's post history.

Toughit

Follow list - test

Hi LoyceV,

The following of a user seems to be working great.

I’m wondering if you can expand it a little via one of these two ways:

1)   Allow a selection of which follower AND which section they post in, like Bitcoin or Beginners
             a.   P:175361:Bitcoin
                     T:1188543:Beginners & Help



2)   That may be difficult, so maybe the output could be modified (like the Red below):

LoyceV posted in Bitcoin: LoyceV's Avatar for Rent [first 39 weeks rented out] (backup Thu Feb 10 09:36:43 CET 2022: unedited post)

Sorry, I can't (easily) do this. I don't keep track of the board on which a post is made, and considering barely anyone uses this, I don't think it's worth adding.
I know TryNinja (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5273824.0) has a database with all the data required, but as far as I know he's short on time too.

Now we will ask everyone to follow each others and build a forum social value 😉

In future (maybe already) LoyceV is going to store your IP and other browser information to trace your movements and send you nice pop up ads like all those social media and search engine does LOL

Nice script by the way. I would recommend using TOR browser or someday you will mess with Loyce and he will send interpol at your door 😂

Is it possible to disclose what sorts of information (browser) you store?

Edit: What!!! This is a two years old topic LOL

That's the Apache default.

I don't care enough to do that :P

There are more reasons for using Tor than just loyce.club :)

Again: I don't care enough for that :P

I (and when I say "I" I really mean just the VPS) store anything Apache logs by default. Initially I didn't expect to ever look at it, but it comes in handy when there's a very agressive scraping bot once in a while.

Welcome :)

I have been using TOR from long time. Even with those VPN you are not safe. So tor is the safest so far among all. By the way, I hope thick skin gang leader does not mind my last post. You built up enormous trust around the community so I think anything in the hand's of you are safe.

For the record: I don't :P And that's what you should always assume when you don't want data to be compromised.
Even though I won't do it intentional, anything on a server can be compromised. It can be because I made a mistake, law enforcement or even a curious employee at the webhost.
TL;DR: don't ever assume anyone is safe :)

This reminds me, do you have a privacy policy page? I think you need one to protect the intellectual asset. Also you need it in case of any damage happen like server compromise and things like that.

The whole internet is a Wild Wild West.

No, but if you type one, I'll scrape it instantly :)

It's all public data :)

There shouldn't be any data on loyce.club that wasn't public in the first place.