Bitcoin Forum

STATUS: Up

A list of subscribed users accepting notification will be kept updated automatically in this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5023605.msg45324744#msg45324744

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Short version:
You can try the new notification system,  based on your preference below set up where you want to be notified. After the registration you will receive a message confirming you are signed up and some basic information.



I want to be notified through PM in the forum:
Send a pm to Maggiordomo (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2340148) by placing in the subject subscribe with something in the body just to be able to send it or, if you want to change the frequency which you will receive the PM notifications you can send this command with a number between 0 and 720, this indicates the delay in minutes which will occur from the first notification before it will be delivered. Is 0 for new people subscribing which, means it will be instant:




I want to be notified through Telegram:
Important:
Before or after you have registered you need to contact @Maggiordomo_Service_bot (https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=@Maggiordomo_Service_bot) on telegram (with the same telegram username used for registering) and just write something to him so he can bind your telegram and forum account togheter.

Send a pm to Maggiordomo (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2340148) by placing in the subject subscribe with in the body:




When somebody will type @yourUsername or yourUsername you will get a notification.

You can either get notified through PM or Telegram, never both

Read the commands section to know what else you can do.

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What trigger a notification (the " are just there tho show the empty spaces around it):
where * is any character, this should fix all the missing notifications where "," "." "?" or anything else is used right after the username.

If @user is in the begin or end of the message will just require an empty space onn the opposite side, all these combinations below works (and also the variant with a random character in the end *):


Working example:

@asche! @actmyname? @Loyce( test ) @babo.

This won't work:

@Halab?, @TomCrypto... @Piggy(test)

Now should work the notification also for all those cases where the names are between tags like these, there can even be some space before or after the username:


 Loyce  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=459836)

TryNinja

BitCryptex

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Long version:
I have been working and experimenting with a bot i coded which will ultimately could help to extend the functionality of the forum and provide public services, to start, one of the primary aim is to notify users about somebody mentioning them, using the known @username notation.
This part is almost completed and usable, even though is not well tested yet. I had few users in the Italian section using it and i was able to collect some feedback and fix some of the emerging issues.

Now i would need more people to use it and see if everything holds and what needs to be changed/fixed in order for it to work better.

How the notification works:
Once you are properly set up with the bot and somebody include in his message @YourUsername or YourUsername[/li][/list] you will be notified by the user Maggiordomo (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2340148), receiving one or more links/short quote to the post where you were mentioned.

These notification are going to be customizable and an option to turn them on/off will be introduced.

If you are not registered, anybody interacting with you will have no effect.

How to interact with the bot and what you can do:

Commands:

• To register: send a PM to the user Maggiordomo (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2340148) with the subject: subscribe and anything in the body. You will receive a PM confirming you are signed up and some basic information.
• To unsubscribe from receiving notification: send a PM to the user Maggiordomo (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2340148) with the subject unsubscribe and something random in the body to be allowed to send it

NEW:
Through a PM while placing in the subject subscribe if you subscribing, or  options if you are already subscribed you can now specify other settings in the body of the message, like this:


in order are:
Alias is another name you can use to get notified when somebody mention it, both with @ or without (based on the settings below)
Tagusername, activates/deactivates notification while being mentioned using @ like @username
Quote, activates/deactivates notification while being quoted
Plainusername,  activates/deactivates notification while your username is being mentioned (without using the @)
Automention,  activates/deactivates notification while your username or alias is being mentioned by you

If none of these options are specified the alias is disabled and the notifications are all on by default.

You can have an alias set and you will get a notification based on your preferences, if there is no other user already registered having that username. Otherwise you won't be notified.

NEW
Telegram notification added

Important:
Before or after you have registered you need to contact @Maggiordomo_Service_bot (https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=@Maggiordomo_Service_bot) on telegram (with the same telegram username used for registering) and just write something to him so he can bind your telegram and forum account togheter.

For who is already registered just send a pm with options in the subject of the bot and add in the body:


If you are not subscribed yet send a pm with subscribe in the subject to the bot and add in the body:

Notes:
If you quote a message with @SomeUsername this won’t trigger a notification to that user.
You can send multiple notification with the same message: @user1 @user2 @user3 ...

Keep in mind the bot use a jr member account, which has a cooldown limitation between one post and the other, about ~8 seconds, so don’t expect to receive your notification instantly, but if you have more than one notification pending they will be delivered all at once.

Uses:

• to save a thread or comment you want to get back to
• signal a post which should me merited (not your own possibly)
• bring somebody attention to a thread for whatever reason

Disclaimer:
It could happen that while the bot is off you will miss some of your notifications, you will have to wait some time to receive them or for some malfunction you won't receive them at all.

I will try to leave a notice in top of this thread if the bot goes down.

You can report any problem, issue or feedback in here.

Here is a list of the users registered to receive notifications:
@Micio (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=115423), @Makkara (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1238798), @LoyceV (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=459836), @iasenko (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1291828), @coinlocket$ (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1339716), @DdmrDdmr (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1582324), @Initscri (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=186520), @babo (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=65636), @sapta (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=347141), @PolyPanto (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=896097), @actmyname (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=465017), @asche (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1580039), @Saint-loup (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=975910), @F2b (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1120609), @baba0000000000 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 Daily STATS (12/12/2019):

Parsed messages: 7883
Notifications through Forum: 220
Notifications through Telegram: 76

A great innovative idea as usual by @Piggy. But don't you think people will clog the Off-topic board (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=9.0) by creating many threads as you suggested for receiving notifications and what would happen if people are not limiting those threads to the Off-topic boards? Someone can say Off-topic board is already filled with shit, but that's not an excuse for us to create more threads filled only with notifications. I have checked few of the tested posts (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4870260.msg44136764#msg44136764) and it redirects to the bounty reports which is useless. If we can get a notification for our social media account (how about for Telegram account which can be created for this notification only) would be great rather creating separate threads even in Off-topic board.

Can we use this bot to check the plagiarism post?

It is great to see that you put restrictions. However, I don't think 5/10 Merits would be enough and those Merits should be "Earned Merits"

That is the test thread which is not corresponding to the actual state of the notification system, those messages are almost a month old and for testing, beside you need to be registered with the bot to receive any notification, as mentioned in my message above, any other @mention found will be discarded.

Again, using the thread is not ideal and would generate some more traffic but at least would be for some purpose and giving a useful service, this is what i can work with since the limitation put in place to send PM, i have another couple of ideas to limit the impact but the choices are limited.


Eventually it could, but at this stage is just about notification

@LoyceV reporting in for testing.

Some thoughts:
Have you considered a delay between posts to prevent posts being rejected if the popularity increases?

Can you add the post title and username? Say: "you have been mentioned by LoyceV in [Beta] @mention notification bot open for testing (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5023605.0).
I see this is fixed already. Or is it? I wanted to quote it, but it's deleted again.

How do you scrape all new posts: do you check all boards, or is there a smarter way?
How long does it take to pick up a new post, assuming the bot is running? It's been 12 minutes since I tested @LoyceV, so far without notification (unless it ignores my own posts).

is not perfect yet, i saw it says your notification was delivered but somehow didn't happen. I do have a queue to wait for the cooldown and variuos check to see if the page throw some error, so it should have worked.

I read all the latest messages from here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent, then pick the @mention and check against the user subscribed

@loycev

Would be very much useful if we could get notified by PM including a link to the post where we were mentioned/quoted, without having to open another thread to see the notifications.
Isn't it possible to use a higher ranked account and ask a mod to whitelist it so that it doesn't need to wait to send PMs? Mods can do that, don't they?

There,is,a,problem,with,your,comma,switch:

Thank you very much! I didn't know it's possible to remove ";patrol" to get posts from all users. I'll use it for scraping spam posts.

I think when is working properly I can try to ask if the restrictions can be lifted, with pm everything would be much simpler.

I turned now down the not, I'll look into the problems seen, fix and maybe set it up again this weekend. You can check the status on the top of the first post.

Can that be optional? I don't want to be spammed by PM, a thread in "Show new replies" is much less intrusive.

Slightly off-topic: what do you use to post? I used to have a script that could post, but Cloudflare broke it. I tried to find something newer, but never got anything that I can get to work.
I'd love to have a post/PM bot again! Many spammers have it, I don't :(

Oh, yes I think a lot of people will find the bot useful, for useful purposes. Is it possible to use a script to make posts with an existing account?

How about if we combine those two bots with few modifications,

• BitcoinTalk Announcements BOT (https://t.me/bitcointalkanns) created by busminer (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=121232) - Bot parsed the forum for announcement, and instantly sent notifications for Telegram
• [Beta] @mention notification bot (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2340148) created by Piggy (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=188198) - When somebody will type @yourUsername or @your=Username you will get one or more notifications in your thread

We can get instant notifications for our Telegram when somebody will type @yourUsername. Isn't that great :)

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Link for Original thread>>>BitcoinTalk Announcements BOT Discord + Telegram +Totaly Free (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5007174.0)

I can add some settings for the way you want to receive your notification, however pm is most probably not going to happen as it's unlikely the account will get a free pass and the limits at the moment are quite strict.
The other option, beside what i'm using now, is just to make a post in your notification thread and then edit that post adding notifications as they come, this doesn't involve any cool down, so could be a viable compromise for instantaneous notifications.

I rather avoid in this case to publicly advertise how is done. Sure thing is, since the bot is reading all the messages being posted, it will be able to run checks on them for any kind of purpose and spot early on unpleasant situations.  :)

i was making some changing which should fix the problems occurred. Plus a more robust way of discovering any further problem which may happen. Now the bot is up again if you miss the chance to try it out the first time.  :)

Does it ignore quotes?

Yes, just checks what you write in your message, the rest is stripped away to avoid involuntary notifications.

Service up again for further testing

Request: Can you add a full-spy-option? I'd like to get a notification whenever someone types "LoyceV" (with or without "@) or quotes me.
The quote notification should only happen if someone who quotes me directly, not if someone quotes a quote in which I was quoted already.

Shall we expect to have other options like reporting of keywords /can be just for exclusive users and used mainly for reporting spam, or a new account only for this purpose/?

i think it's doable or at least worth a try, it may be more natural to name somebody even without the @. I'll implement something and run it in the next days.


Yes that would be the next phase, some way to use it as monitoring system / reporting

This is an interesting feature @Piggy :) It's cool to see the notifications somewhere to be able to follow more conversations here.

Any chance this could be extended to also check for posts where you were quoted? I've create a new feature proposal in the past for this here: [NEW FEATURE] Seeing a post that quoted your post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2878955.0) would be nice to see it in your tool.

I'm curios what kind of software did you use to create this bot and how are you running it?

This feature is not actually very difficult to implement, as soon as i have time i'm going to add it as well, so the next run we can see how is going.

The bot is coded in C#.

 

That sounds great! :)

I was wondering how exactly are you running the bot. Is at like an "agent" that you start and it starts crawling the forum user's latest posts for references of the list of watched user names?

Also, I assume you're doing everything headless, right?

Yes and yes.

I'm actually testing now in silent mode (users registered are not getting any nothifications but they do show up in the log) the idea you are proposing, i need to improve a bit the code to make sure everything run as fast as possible, but it seems to be working quite fine.

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  Quote from: darklus123 on September 11, 2018, 06:54:21 AM
  He even posted twice consecutively.  So basically aside from not reading OP's rule this person is also not aware of

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  Quote from: vlad230 on September 11, 2018, 07:33:01 AM
  That sounds great! I was wondering how exactly are you running the bot. Is at like an "agent" that you

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• Other - Meta - Re: [CLUB]The SpamBuster!4 Cases open,over 3000 accounts, Reviewed:3000+ [04.09]
  
  Quote from: LoyceV on September 11, 2018, 07:33:52 AM
  If you can get me a list of the posts, I can exclude quotes and check for bans too. It

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I'm also on the list from now!
This can be a very impressive tool if it works, also I suggest also as someone already said to add the notification even if anyone quote your post, it would be an awesome feature, since a lot of people will quote your posts but they will not @tag you.

That and the notification for the  plain mention of the username without @ should be ready for some public testing today. By what i have seen yesterday it seems to work fine, it may need to be tweaked if there will ever be a lot of users. I'll also implement some options to turn on and off these two kind of notification then.

This is awesome, great job. Bookmarking for future use.

If you don't mind me asking: What's this coded in? Have you thought about releasing it as open source: throwing it up on Github so others can contribute?

If it's a language I'm familiar w/, I'd definitely try & help out.

If you're wanting to keep it closed source, that's completely understandable though.

I may do it a certain point, the main reason not to is to avoid showing wrong people how to post messages automatically, there is already a lot of spam i would not want to cause more.

I'm using C# and Visual Studio

The 2 new ways to trigger notifications are now ready to be tested and you may start to get some


loycev iasenko

That worked, although I received the notification twice. The quoted dates were different, so I'm not sure if you posted and deleted this first, or your bot doubles it.

Another request: can I have a custom keyword? I'm often referred to as "Loyce".

yes i noticed a duplication of the messages sent as well, sometimes if i see strange things happening i just step in and delete the messages manually. Now there should be no more double notification messages.

For the alias i need to think about it, it may overlap with the main username of another user and become messy. Perhaps it could be used as long as there is not another user Loyce subscribed. I'll put in the list of things to do and see what i can do.   

To prevent any imposter from claiming "Loyce", I've just registered it myself. And I instantly deleted the password, although it's linked to my Gmail (to prevent anyone else from claiming it if I don't own the email address). I'll never use it, and neither will anybody else.
With this out of the way, could you just change my "LoyceV" to "Loyce"? That should solve the overlap-problem.

Update: I received notification (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5023723.msg45570481#msg45570481) of my own post now.

yes that is intended, you can trigger a notification to yourself, perhaps if you want to save a link to a comment or for whatever reason.
Double notifications may still showing up i see. But I will leave it running for while now and check if any more problems come up.

Another request:

I haven't followed closely the development til now is this what is implemented:
Notifications >
- if someone mentioned you with @YourUserName
- if someone mentioned you with only YourUserName
- if someone quote your post

At least those notifications I saw til now.

Anything I'm missing here?

yes those are all the recent changes, i'll be marking them with new in the starting post.

Are there plans to open this up to more than just 1 specific thread, or would that overdo it/defeat the purpose?

It's already reading all the messages that gets posted in the forum from here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent , or did you mean something else?

Oh, sorry, I was under the impression that it was only mentions within a specific thread that you set. Was wondering if it's possible for it to watch the entire forum looking for @ mentions.

"To register: send a PM to the user Maggiordomo with the subject: subscribe and a link to your thread in the body. You will receive a message in that thread confirming you are signed up and some basic information."

Would I just not include a thread link in the body of the message in order to get all notifications of all threads?

You got it wrong. The thread you should send to the bot is a thread where he will post every time you get mentioned.

- I create a thread called "Mentions to TryNinja" and link it to the bot.
- Every time someone says @TryNinja, the bot quotes the post in the "Mentions to TryNinja" thread.

The bot already checks the whole forum by reading every new post created (which are shown in the "recent posts" page).

For example, here is Loyce's thread: Are you looking for me? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5023723)

Ahh ok, this makes a lot more sense. I had the impression it would send a PM to you when you're mentioned within a specific thread. Targeted towards Service announcements, thread management, etc.

Sorry about that!

Yes.


The thread you put in the PM during the registration is the one where you receive solely the notifications, i may have not wrote it very clearly, i'll make it more explicit peraphs.

We are up again for another round of testing. I made changes and fixes based on the past feedback.

I need still to code some way to allow some changes on what should trigger the notifications and the link of the thread where you get notified. So that if somebody want just to receive them when is explicitly mentioned in a certain way can do so. This will happen through PM, with something like this in the body:


I'm looking into adding one alias as well which will work just if is not overlapping with the main username of a registered user already and maybe if it's not too different from the original username.

For the moment i will leave the bot up to check if anything else is coming up to be fixed.
Next step if everything goes well is to look into a more permanent way to let it run, probably a raspberry pi will do.

Are those functions enabled by default or we have to manually enable them?
Very useful features btw :)

Yes, at this moment everything is enabled by default and you receive notifications for all these three cases. As soon as i implement these options you can set it as you like.

Update

through a PM while placing in the subject subscribe if you subscribing, or  options if you are already subscribed you can now specify other settings in the body of the message, like this:


in order are:
Alias is another name you can use to get notified when somebody mention it, both with @ or without (based on the settings below)
The notification thread if you want to change it
Tagusername, activates/deactivates notification while being mentioned using @ like @username
Quote, activates/deactivates notification while being quoted
Plainusername,  activates/deactivates notification while your username is being mentioned (without using the @)

If none of these options are specified the alias i disabled and the notifications are all on by default.

You can have an alias set and you will get a notification based on your preferences, if there is no other user already registered having that username. Otherwise you won't be notified.

We are getting close to a possible release, these two changes need now to be tested to be sure that everything works 100%, between today and tomorrow probably is going to be enough to spot problems.

The bot have been running all night and no major problems came up.  :)

I'm going to add support to receive notifications directly in telegram as well, for whom would prefer to get them in there. When this is done ill start to look into a permanent way to let it run.

Telegram would be a lot easier as it wouldn't require the creation of a thread (leads to needless post creation technically)

Any recos as to where to post these notification threads? I saw off-topic as a common choice

Yes for the moment off topic seems to be the right place, or at least i didn't receive any complain from the moderators for the moment.

But in general is probably better to have also some other options open using Telegram.

I mean I definitely wouldn't get rid of the functionality to send notifications to topics. Could be helpful in certain situations (thread/campaign management, etc)

But yea, telegram is probably the best route for 90% of people.

This seems like a great innovation. I look forward to trying it out soon.

@Piggy, with the Jr. Rank demotions, @Maggiordomo is now a Newbie. That implies we need to allow PMs from Newbies (which I had disabled). I've merited @Maggiordomo with 1 sMerit in order to avoid this, and so you don't have to merit your own Alt Bot account.. you can’t have a Newbie running your bot butler (Maggiordomo), let's give him some status  …

Thank you, now at least i can put some information in the signature as well, so if some problem happen people knows who to blame. :)
I'm not using yet PM, but they could come useful for something i haven't tough of yet.

After taking a look at this to set it up, it appears that the notifications are sent to a thread and not a PM?  Why is this?  I would think we'd want our notifications to be private in the form of a PM and not a public thread post.  Maybe providing our user ID for PMs instead of a thread link would be a better solution?

The main problem with pm is that they are restricted to avoid abuses https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2536728.0 so i would not be able to send that many, beside that, you could get quite a lot of messages if you want the notifications to be instantaneous and i imagine it could be quite intrusive.
With a thread you get a mail notification once, till you visit again the thread, plus you can also lock the thread if you start to receive too much notifications, so you have more control vs PM.

There is going to be a choice to get notifications directly in Telegram as well which it may be preferable for some people.

Hello @Piggy, thank you for your work and good luck with it.

I wanted to ask, is it possible to implement an option that a bot will be able to track other information which belongs to your account? For example, if abusers/scammers use your forum profile/social account (links) to apply to different campaigns, about which you even never heard.  The same question about public tables published on the forum. Thank you.

One problem is that all the information are inside google spreadsheet, so is necessary to look specifically for those and then keep checking them periodically,  is a bit different from what i'm doing in here and would not fit. This would require something dedicated, perhaps for a future project. Ultimately should be a responsibility of the bounty managers to do proper checks.

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Telegram notification added(need some testing to make sure everything works)

For who is already registered just send a pm with options in the subject of the bot and add in the body:



Before or after you have done this you need to contact @Maggiordomo_Service_bot (https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=@Maggiordomo_Service_bot) on telegram with the same telegram username used for registering and just write something to him so he can bind your telegram and forum account togheter.

If you are not subscribed yet send a pm with subscribe in the subject to the bot and add in the body:
or
if you want to receive the notifications on both.

I still need to add an option to enable/disable notification on forum and telegram as preferred.

- fixed few issues with the registration using telegram, now babo and Initscri should be able to get their notifications in telegram  :)

I'll be keeping it on today as well to check if anything else comes up. If you haven't tried it yet feel free to register, instructions are in the first post.

piggy

Yep, it worked, just received your notification!

Thanks!

 @PolyPanto please try to send a pm with options in the subject instead of subscribe, you are already subscribed so it was ignoring your previous request. This way i can also see if everything works. Thanks

Regarding the google sheets, it was worth it to ask, as it irritates that scammers apply with your details, thanks for answering :D



Thanks, sent again. Now I understand, why the bot didn't react, my mistake  ::)

Found maybe a bug in the bot.

I was quoted in a thread but the notification shows that the quote is in another thread.


This is the correct thread where I was quoted >


This is the notification from the bot leading to the missing quote :

I was thinking that, maybe xtraelv quoted me on a wrong thread and then deleted his comment but it this case I should have received a notification for both quotes. but...
Here is the topic and message IDs :

original quote.
the missing quote.

yes looks like a bug, thank you for reporting. I think i have already an idea where it could go wrong and cause something like this to happen, i'll run some test and prepare a fix for it in the next days.

Some update:
- added a new option notifyby to decide which kind of notification feedback to keep in use: telegram, forum or both.
- fixed issue reported by iasenko (wrong link to the notified message).
- fixed other non catastrophic issues.

ill keep up the bot up for another round of tests

The Bot is going to be up for several hours today, possibly during the night as well to finish to lure out the final bugs which may be present.

If anybody else want to give it a go, just follow the instruction on the first post or ask.

Hi, yesterday I was quoted twice, but didn't get notifications. Could you please double check why? Thanks

hi,

i was looking at the log, at that time yesterday the bot was not active.
I was letting it run some untested code, which had some problem and stopped the bot entirely  :), that was around ~01:30:00 PM. Then i could not start it again remotely.

If you see anything else strange please let me know.

I'm giving it a try and asked to receive the notification by Telegram only. Let's see. Thanks, Piggy.

Welcome, if you encounter some problem please let me know.

I'm going to leave it running the whole today and tomorrow (unless some big problem or crash occurs), then check back on Monday if anything need fixes.
So this is the perfect time to try it.

I've received a few notifications when I quoted myself (to give an update to a certain post). Can you filter those out? I already know that :P
Example:

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I really like the quotes from local boards! "Normally", I would stumble upon most quotes eventually anyway, but in local boards, I'd never find them. I had no idea people refer to my posts from local threads, and some even translate my posts! Thanks for this feature :)

Examples (I haven't deleted those posts from my notification thread yet):

I put that issue in the list. Tomorrow i'll check if other problems came up during these days, but i'm quite happy it didn't crash for some unknown reason (yet) at least.

Mentions in local boards are indeed quite funny  :)

I now stopped the bot and is going to be down for a few days as i fix some of the issues. It seems nothing major came up and it's quite stable, at least for what i have seen in this test of 2 and half days straight.

In the meanwhile i started to make some test with Mono on a Raspberry pi and looks quite quite promising, hopefully everything will run in there in the end :)

TBH, if you need a VPS for this, I'd put it out there.
I'd probably personally chip in a little bit for a super small VPS from like DigitalOcean or Vultr.

I wouldn't be surprised if others joined in as well. It's super helpful, and worth the operating costs.

It could be a valid alternative to keep into account indeed, i actually didn't know there were cheaper options (i had tried with some free credit with Microsoft azure but it's way too expensive, Google and Amazon have something as well but i never looked how much is costing).
In the end since the work done in here is computationally very simple, it doesn't require any powerful machine to run it, so having same ultra basic configuration for the hardware would be enough :)

The cheapest I found is SparkVPS (https://www.sparkvps.com/crm/cart.php?a=add&pid=169). I haven't used them yet (so this is not a vouch for them!), because I don't have time to figure it all out yet, but the specs look like a very good deal:
It's $14 per year and they accept Bitcoin.

This is like an offer that you cannot refuse  :), OS & specs look more than enough to run this and it may not even be worth to use some own device with low power consumption.

I made few more fixes, including the self quote triggering a notification, but mainly to allow it to run with mono.
We still need another round of testing since is now running on a virtual machine in Linux, so i will keep it up as long as possible today and possibly during the whole week end as well.

If everything goes fine we are very close to a stable release which could run 24/7.

@Micio @Makkara @LoyceV @iasenko @coinlocket$ @PolyPanto @DdmrDdmr @Initscri @Piggy @babo @sapta

There's a ton of deals like that on http://lowendbox.com/ - I use that site all the time for yearly deals.


Glad to hear! Can't wait :)

Nice one piggy
For vps i use this

http://bit.ly/hostens-vps
Hostens, they are new latvian company
I have 2 vps since 6 months

Ii see they have a free trial, i'm probably going to check it out since you have been using it for a while already, the prices are looking reasonable.
I don't have much experience with vps and I don't want to spend too much time to look around for the absolute cheap to find out later is not usable

I try digitalocean, now not good
I try aws, high price
I ear about hezner, people said me is good
I ear about vultr..

Hostens is good, at the moment

I would recommend users to create threads in Archival since the board is mainly used as a dumping ground for obsolete threads anyway.

This avoids the possibility of cluttering up Off-topic (which can potentially house non-spam threads) or any other non-primary board.

Great idea! I moved my thread, and it works fine.
@Piggy: I would suggest to only accept threads in Archival from now on.

I changed my mind: the thread is no longer self-moderated :(

Yes i just updated the starting thread, suggesting to create the thread in Archival and i will enforce it in the code as well these days.

If we keep our threads clean it won't be problem, the best solution is to receive a PM for every quote, but Piggy should request the bot to be whitelisted to remove the PM restriction. So there will be more privacy, now everyone can put my thread in the watchlist and see when somebody quotes me, not that I really care about it but...
 

Functionality is still there if someone wants to check up on your mentions (for whatever reason) if they simply search your name in the built-in search function. This is what I've been doing to check my mentions (until I found this thread).

Yeah but this takes more time and effort and it's not so effective as receiving notifications every time you been quoted. As I said before I don't really care about this issue but some can take it more serious.

I'm fairly sure the white listing is not going to happen if i ask for it now, maybe later on if there will be more people signing up. Probably is better to wait when the bot is going to run 24/7.

For the moment to keep the notification less explicit (but not private) the only option is to use telegram.

I made some small fixes and changes. For anybody who want to register now and want to use a thread to receive the notifications, it's going to enforce the thread is under Archival. All those who were registered before can still use the original thread they created but, would be better to move it under Archival.

I'll be leaving the bot up, possibly through the night as well, however you can just check the first post to make sure of the status.

I just put everything on a VPS so the notifications will be active 24/7 from now on (unless some problem occurs)

If anybody want to try and sing up, you are welcome. Instructions in the first post :)

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@Micio @Makkara @LoyceV @iasenko @coinlocket$ @PolyPanto @DdmrDdmr @Initscri @Piggy @babo @sapta @actmyname

Great news :)

Just a small note:
The formatting of the notification messages is a bit wrong.

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Forgot some extra code/tags in the end.  :)
Otherwise that is the message which will appear in case there are a certain number of consecutive errors, while trying to send/post a notifications.
In this case the server was returning (while trying to post ) 503 (Service Temporarily Unavailable) which may be due to the internet connection of the VPS i guess.

Now it's OK, the weird thing is that I got 3 notifications for the same (your) post,
The first was with OK formatting the other two were a bit off.
https://imgur.com/adX8Xgg

Note> I received notification for my own post, I remember that there were some discussions sometime ago about this but don't remember the final conclusion, that's why I mentioned it here for info.

i'll look into it and see if i can make any sense out of it, must have been caused by the latest changes  ;D


The notification will happen (as you saw) if you type your username in the message, while will not happen if you quote one of your messages. 

Telegram notifications work perfect, well done mate

In my opinion, telegram notification is the killer feature of this service

i think that too, i have set telegram for myself for a while now and seems a smoother experience. Anyway, there is a choice and anybody can use what prefers.  :)

Hi,  I really like the telegram feature and I would prefer to get telegram notifications only. Can I unsubscribe from the thread notifications and delete it and get them only via telegram or it is a must to have a thread?  If it is possible, should I send PM to Maggiordomo with the subject unsubscribe and the link to the tread in the text or I need to do anything else?

Yes you can unsubscribe, then subscribe with this in the message


if you have any problem let me know

My suggestion about telegram notification is really a good advice
And thankyou too for realize it

@piggy, this is amazing!

I am going to translate this to my local board for more awareness :)

If you have an issue with this please let me know, I will delete it immediately!

Thank you for your efforts

No problem go ahead :)

Remember to contact the bot by writing him a message to complete the binding.

@piggy

Thank you :)

FYI when I wrote to the bot, he detected my username had a space in it which it doesn't, maybe some logic issue in the code? :)

I'll also give 1 merit to your bot account so that it eventually becomes member :)

Thanks.

I just checked now, it picked up your telegram message so you should receive this.

It did indeed :)

About the testing, it seems like your bot missed this post:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5057612.msg47291273#msg47291273

Any clue @piggy?

Thank you :)

Unless the message was edited and the mention added later, should havse picked it up indeed, it seems a pretty straight case.
There may have been even some timeout internally and the message slipped away by the time everything went back to normal, there may be some clue in the log file.
I'll look into it @asche

Sure :) No issue to me, just thought you might want to have a look at it for further debugging/enhancement :)

Thank you Piggy for your useful work. And thank you @asche (again) for the translation.

Welcome. :)

If anyone sees any problem, please report it in here.

prego
Ok it doesn't work for @asche while it's working for others.
BTW is there a feature to notif all subscribers to il maggiordomo? like @all or something else?
I guess we receive notifications from users even if they are in our bitcointalk ignore list... so is there a feature for blocking notification of someone in particular?

PS: BTW I read @asche has changed some options like enabling telegram notification

@asche is receiving his notifications just on telegram so you cannot see them, but he should be receiving them.

At the moment there no options to notify all the people at once ( you need to name each of them) or to filter out mentions from certain people.

You can find the instructions to set up telegram in the first post of this thread if needed.

I can't seem to have both notifications as I thought would be possible from your instructions.

Is this on purpose or a bug?

@piggy When I put another alias it replaces the older one.
It's not possible to get several aliases? like saintloup, saint_loup and saint loup ?
Thank you



PS : The bot doesn't seem to manage punctuation like commas correctly
I didn't get notification for this post

I deactivated that option and forgot to mention it, now simply try first to send the notification through telegram, if succeed, it doesn't send the notification in the thread to avoid redundancy.


This is something i can look into it. Anyway at the moment you can use just one alias and will work unless it collides with the username of another user registered with the bot.

To be sure to receive a notification the mention need to be between two empty spaces because in here you are allowed to have many strange characters in the usernames, it may be the comma is allowed as well, so to make things easier i decided to go that way (and also for performance reason without entering into roo much detail s).

In any case i may look into this as well since many people put a comma right after the name.

How about a check for if removing the first/last character of the string will result in the alias?

Make it 3.

example:

This fucking actmyname...

At the moment i'm looking for a pattern " @username/alias " or " username/alias " with space in the begin and in the end, i can change it easily to space or ", " (comma + space) in the end.

I have just to make sure there are no cases where can cause some misbehaviour, because the comma can be part of they username as well or pheraps not anymore? I see there are usernames that have it.

On the other end i cannot think of a case where there would be two users registered where one has the username "user" and the other has "user," other than for trolling somebody :)

stats of usage of bot?
i think is useful

if you have spare time is interesting to see
- number of parsed message
- number of mentions
- number of telegram messages

@Piggy

That that mean a username followed by a "dot" or anything else than a comma gets ignored? Like when I ask this question @Piggy?

Yes i can add something like that in the second post of this thread where all the users are listed. At the moment i'm not counting anything in particular unfortunately.


Yes, at the moment the username need to be included between spaces to trigger the notification, this was done to work in a general way as "?" "." and "," can be included in the username so Piggy and Piggy? could actually be two different users, but as i was saying before the chances of this happening are quite small.

I will add some special cases for the end characters like "?" "." and "," so cases where somebody writes (also without @): @user? or @user. " or @user, would still notify user

I made some of the changes discussed above, this below is some example of what trigger the notifications at and what doesn't:

What trigger a notification (the " are just there tho show the empty spaces around it):
where * is any character, this should fix all the missing notifications where "," "." "?" or anything else is used right after the username.

If @user is in the begin or end of the message will just require an empty space onn the opposite side, all these combinations below works (and also the variant with a random character in the end *):


Working example:

@asche! @actmyname? @Loyce( test ) @babo.

This won't work:

@Halab?, @TomCrypto... @Piggy(test)

well done mate
this tool is very useful and telegram maggiordomo top bot :)

how much cost the vps?

Indeed, I confirm that the ping @TomCrypto... doesn't trigger the notification
Congratulations on your great notification bot Piggy!

I bought a 3 months plan, to see it was working properly and it is so far, ~12$ VAT included. Is not bad considering i can also use it to perform other tasks as well :)


thanks  :)

if you bought annual plan you can save more money $$$
you can "update" plan in you panel :)

i think is better, because more months = less money

Small bug report: the bot sometimes (but not all the time) shows the same quote twice, see Are you looking for me? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5023723.80).

Yes i saw that indeed, just wanted to be sure they had a good service before to find mayself in a long term relationship :)


Yes i have it in the to do list, probability the next thing I'm going to do when i have some time. It seems it went wild today  :)

I added under the list of users some basic stats, it will be updated every hour and reset at the begin of the day:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5023605.msg45324744#msg45324744


@babo

@Piggy

How to change my notification thread? I've created a new one in Archive so this one in the Off-topic I'll leave only for Bitcointalk MEMEs :)
Link to the new thread > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5062028.0
Sad that I cannot make a self-moderated one in Archive :(

You should be able to change the thread by sending a pm to the bot with options in the subject and directly the link in the body of the message

Can you make this a configurable option? I've never wanted to use this feature, but I unintentionally triggered it several times.
This is my latest self-notification (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5023723.msg47540542#msg47540542), and this is going to happen at all my weekly updates.
If I can turn it off, that would be much appreciated.

I need to have a look at the code on Monday, but as far as i can remember should be quite straight forward to make this change. In the end from your side is just going to be another on/off option to manage it.

Hello
I've got a little issue with my current alias, saint=loup (ie saint loup)
Everytime someone writes saint or saints somewhere on the forum I'm notified... (not for loup)

Hi

I see the alias you have set at the moment is saint so is consistent with the notifications you are getting.

Were you actually setting saint loup to begin with right? I may have to look into it and fix it, as is cutting off when it encounters spaces, if i remember correctly ( need to look into the code to be sure )

thank you
The last PM I sent to Maggiordomo was this one


But maybe the "=" only works for the usernames and not the aliases

i have been adding a new option:



this will avoid sending a notification while mentioning your own username or alias, now it's off by default for everybody

@loycev

@Saint-loup i made some changes as well to the alias, now you should be able to put Saint loup or Saint=loup as well if you like.

Thanks, much better this way, I get enough notifications already :)

I've used your bot for the first time to send myself a notification from my mobile. I posted this:
I deleted this post a few seconds after posting it (note: not all boards allow this). This is easier than sending a PM with the link to myself. Reporting plagiarism (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1926895.msg47681160#msg47681160) is much easier from my desk than from my mobile.

Thank you but I'm still notified everytime someone is talking about "Saint Petersburg" or others saints...  :-[
So I will change my alias.

Yes i suppose you had saint for alias, now you can actually set aliases with a space in between as well after the last change i made, so you can get notified just for "saint loup" mentions as well.

In the message to the bot:

it seems to work well now
Thank you Piggy

Bumping up the thread for visibility, in case somebody didn't notice the the thread yet and may be interested in using it. The bot has been doing his job quite well so far, no crash or any major problems  :)

@Piggy it seems that it is only possible to receive notifications either via the thread or over telegram. Is it possible to receive them both via telegram and in the created thread in archival?
Once I enabled the telegram notifications I stopped receiving them in my thread.

At the moment you can just use one or the other, if both methods are set, it uses automatically telegram. Is to avoid redundancy and keep the system simple.

Telegram is more convenient imo.

@Piggy is it possible to configure the bot to recognise words in the same order? For example User A posts something and in case User B copies his post (plagiarises it) User A gets a notification or a notification is sent to thread for everyone to see. Imagine how much this would help with copy/pasting issues.
In case the same order of 5 or 10 words is used the bot sends out a notification.
Sorry if this was already discussed I didn't go through all posts.   

This would require to copy over the whole forum database and compare every single new post to the old ones. Safe to say it would be extremely difficult to implement

since the bot is already reading all the messages this sort of the idea was brought up in fact, i still have to think how is better to implement it, but as soon as i have some clear idea and time to code it i'll implement something that will detect some of the plagiarism happening within the forum.

I'm not entirely sure however if this should be some functionality of this bot or a new one, which will specifically deal with these matters.


Yes, is not going to be possible to find everything but something could still be detectable which is better than nothing :)

I never said you couldn't do it Piggy :)
But it looks like it involves a lot of modification to what the bot does now.

not a lot of changes in the end, but since this bot is serving a complete different purpose and since it's stable now, i would like to avoid put on top of it more code which could potentially fail and bring down everything altogether  ;)

It i'll probably be something separated based on this one, if i see is possible to get some useful result.

If you can tag me when you start testing :) I'd be happy to participate.

It is not possible to connect several BT accounts to one notification thread but is it possible to receive notifications on the same telegram account for several BT accounts?

I never tried to do it but it should actually work

Maybe the focus could be on the 1-2 sections of the forum where most of the plagiarism issues take place such as the Altcoin section. I am not sure which other board has a lot of copy-pasted material but I assume it is mainly related to bounties. If that goes well it could be widened to other boards for example.

Is this a bug or intended? I was mentioned inside the quote, and received notification anyway:

I guess it's my fault, I remove the quoted message from pugman where you was mentioned after I posted the answer. I guess that's why it happened.

Edited:Actually you are there in the second part of the post, see the second quote below the <hr>

it often happen the post get edited (i do it as well) right after is posted and there could be discrepancies since only the first version is read.

But if you iasenko didn't quote directly or mention LoyceV directly (and then remove it) there could have been a problem then. In any case i can try to debug that message and see what happen.

Here is the post we are talking about. Let's test it if he will get notification.
I quoted the whole post first, then edited it again but I deleted 1 closing quote too much and it appeared as I posted it. Then came another edit to fix it.
This is the final result, it should not trigger notifications.

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There you go, another half hour gone. Thanks for the input, It was almost 400 pages back.. I don't think I could ever find it myself.

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No way for me to go for a hat like these. NO.
If I make an exception, then it will be for something like this..

http://www.newbornbabystuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/crochet-baby-hats-lael-viking-crochet-hat-with-bobble-beard-for-baby-toddler.jpg

I saw that :) My point is: you're not quoting me directly, you're quoting someone who mentioned me.

(obviously: quote edited by me :D)
If I understand correctly, P i g g y should not receive a notification, but if the bug is real, he'll get one anyway. I won't edit this post. I edited it anyway, but didn't change any usernames.

Is I said, I messed up the whole thing. If i remember correctly this is what i've done >


It's not my first time messing up the quote tags..

Ok so in this case then the notification would have been triggered indeed like it happened.

I may need to check why spotted a quote as well beside the mention, but with broken tags i figure there could be these kind of inaccuracies since i didn't test these cases.

Just make sure that you won't share your code... I've read in another topic that spammers/copypasters are now fishing for anti-spam anti-plagiarism methods, to upgrade their systems in order to have less accounts banned in the future...

He's not the admin so I don't understand your point, if he prefers to be open source, he's free.

Absolutely, it's his decision.
I'm just wondering if it worths the efforts to develop a system to catch the bad boys, where the bad boys can easily check how they are identified to be a bad boy or not and they can modify their system accordingly to escape the checks...
If open source, there will be no catch after the bad boys have adapted themselves, so the new system would be just unnecessary...
But bad boys would stand up for the open source system of course :)

Were there any outage last night with the bot?
I was mentioned two times last night, but only one of them is showing up in my notification thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5074048.0)
The two posts were I was mentioned:
Digital goods section (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5080577.msg48500217#msg48500217) this is missing
CLUB (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4720640.msg48501792#msg48501792) this was mentioned OK

He might have made a typo and edited his post afterwards.

As far as i can see from the log there have been no problem last night around that time.

There may be the chance the message was actually edited and the mention added afterwards, in that case you would not see the notification. (as asche hinted)

Just signed up Piggy and received this reply:


Obviously it is misinterpreting underscores as spaces. Is this something that can be fixed?

That's not the case, bitart was mentioned in the unedited post. In case you want to troubleshoot it, I scraped this at most a few seconds after posting:
(from top to bottom: username, userID, postID, raw HTML headers, raw HTML post without quotes)

I know it's not that case here, but what will happen if someone is mentions using homographs?
I will test it here.
@Piggy
@LoyceV
The letters in red are in Cyrillic ;)

Obviously it won't work.
But what if you try signing up using these?  8)

After theymos fixed the homographs those characters written in other coding are converted automatically into Latin characters.
I remember now, while we were fighting the homographs with Loyce back then he found out that in the recent posts the homographs were not changed. I think this is where Piggy is gathering his database from, so the above mentions will not work.

It will be interesting to test your suggestion, tho.

Correct, this is your raw unedited post:
I assume you only added the color later, otherwise @Piggy won't work anyway because it's interrupted by HTML. Unless Piggy filters that out first (let's test!).

It doesn't work. Old usernames can still have weird characters (example: #1M@ (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1035745)), but it's no longer allowed for new registrations.
I tried the homograph too:

@o_e_l_e_o you should be able to receive notification with your full username, there is some problem indeed but you can just disregard that message which is actually referring to the alias, which you can change.

If @bitart message was not picked up could be either because there is something particular in the message ( i need to check and see if it gets processed correctly) or simply the bot need to read more messages than i anticipated to avoid missing some.

I'll have a look on monday.  :)

Thanks Piggy, that seems to be working now.

I tried to set my alias as oeleo. I suppose this post will serve as a test to see if that's working.

Edit: Confirmed alias is working as well. Thanks again.

I have made some fixes for these issues:

• double notifications happening for the same message
• notification messages missed (still can occur in those cases where there is a heavy traffic load on the forum / random connection timeout)

I didn't receive double notifications, until you fixed it :o
See here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5023723.msg48739814#msg48739814) and the next post.

However, when I tested (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5023723.msg48740004#msg48740004) it again, I received only one notification.

yes, is something that apparently happen just sometimes but still happen, for some reason i don't really understand yet  :-\

i'll have a look again and see if something comes up.

Piggy, I want to congralute you for making such a good service.

This could be officially incentived by bitcointalk forum.

Maybe creating a proper board for bots?  I put my notifications in the archive board, but I believe this is not an appropriate session for it.

Edit:

I had the same problem. Only after fixed , I received a triple notification

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5078217.msg48746192#msg48746192

Thank you bitmover.

I may have figured out what the problem is, i'll release a fix for it later an see if it solves it. Otherwise i will roll back to the previous more stable version an keep looking. :)

I'm just speculating here: could it be caused by the way you handle posts from "recent (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent)"? I've been scraping that too, and on frequent downloads with slow posts it often gives the same post again. If you keep track of the latest postID, you should be able to easily prevent processing the same post twice.

there was that problem as well but it was fixed with the first changes.

The problem seemed to be related with the order the latest post pages(1,2,3 ...) were downloaded. Since i was downloading them asynchronously, starting them all together, sometimes page 2 or 3 would finish before page 1, screwing up "the most recent message already read".
So at the next iteration if page 1 would finish before page 2 or 3 there would be still 10/20 messages which would get processed again, duplicating notifications.

Now it's updated.

Test.

Dear users, I am from the Russian part of the forum. I try to configure the bot, and also want to translate this topic for the Russian users. Please quote me or reply to me. I must understand that I did everything right and will get notification. Then I will teach others.  :)

@Kriptopsina hi

I didn't even configured it and I am enjoying it a lot :)

Quoting you for your test.

To receive your notifications you need to use a thread which is under the Archive board. Otherwise everything seems to be in order  :)

 :) :) Thanks guys.

Yes, I did not receive the notification. I understood. Need to send a non-archival topic.
I changed the board to another. This topic is not in the archive. (Excuse me for my English. I am working on it.)

Can I request an ignore list? I can ignore a user on the forum, but I keep receiving notifications when he misses me and calls for attention:
The Pharmacist suggested to boycot his trolling (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5088527.0), so it would be really nice to block him from "looking for me (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5023723.0)".

Hi, Piggy.
Why is your bot spamming on the forum? Something went wrong?

Example from thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5036297.0

Post deleted. Here is the archive https://archive.fo/KnS4p

I see. That thread is supposed to be in the Archive board so that it wouldn't disturb anybody, it should be moved in there, i'll drop the op a pm so he can do it.

Edit: I sent pm to Kriptopsina and turned off momentarily the notifications for him

All notifications should be sent to private messages. Otherwise, your bot raises outdated topics, litters the forum and increases the load on the servers.

This was discussed i while back, there are daily limits on the amount of private messages you can send, in particular for new accounts, so it wouldn't be viable. There is telegram in any case.

So far using threads within the Archival boards has proved to be fine with the forum moderation, since is not disturbing anyone and there have been no users trying to exploit the bot with bad intents. In this case however it just seems Kriptopsina found inadvertently a bug and had set a thread which actually was not under Archival.

Hi Piggy!

Thank you very much for very useful and awesome product!

With your bot, the old forum engine seemed to get a second wind!

I may have a look at something like that after the hidays, it shouldn't take very long to implement.


Thank you appreciated  :)

Just a feedback.

I created a thread for my notifications: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5088991.0 with name   Maggiordomo bot thread for TheFuzzStone

After I added two symbols   👁 👁

And now, when somebody mention me or quote my messages I'm receiving notifications only in Telegram. And that is awesome!  :)

EDIT.
But now, if I send him options  he don't respond to me  :P.

Yes there is no feedback from the bot when you change the options, i may have a look and see if there is some easy way to show them in the notification thread. In telegram it's quite easy and i will get it done after the holidays.

What do you think about this -- the bot settings (command  options) can be changed via Telegram?

Yes make sense as well, is much easier to have that kind of configurations directly on the telegram. I'll look into it  :)

A topic title with [] breaks your posting:

Proposed fix: replace the [] by {} or something else.

The forum now also insists to add this to my post:[/list]

Again your bot spamming on the forum. For which purposes you send notifications about replies in thread B to thread A?

https://archive.fo/x0S2s

Read the OP.

This is a tool. Everyone can use it. The maker of the tool is hardly to blame for misuse. The user is. Please move on, or contact the specific user. Since he is using the bot you can get his attention by just mentionning his nick.

This tool uses a forum account and violates the rules. Read the rules.

A forum account uses this tool.

The rules are enforced on a case by case basis.
Maybe drop the semantics and use your brain.

If you feel that this is against the rules, you don't need to post anything here, just use the report to the moderator button. Mods will dedice if it's against the rules or not. That's all. You'll see in your report history if they mark your report good or bad, so you won't even need to come back to this topic to check the outcome.

I actually had contacted that user explaining the situation but didn't help... :)

Tomorrow i will make a change which will stop the bot from posting in threads which are not in Archival, so there won't be these sorts of issues anymore.

I had my notification thread moved from off-topic to archival last night by a mod. That is a more suitable place, and it was a pending task of mine to move for quite some time. This morning I PMd @Maggiordomo with an "options" subject and the parameters in the text body. I figure I did it correctly, but kindly give it a look whenever you can to check that the thread change is now in effect. Thanks.
 
Edit: @Maggiordomo just PMd me with a recent notification, so that's proof that I configurated it correctly.

Yes indeed your notification thread is set correctly.

I just made the change now, i'm checking that everything still works correctly and the filtering (of notifications in thread which are not in the Archival board) happen.



@Kriptopsina should not receive any notification (Thread not in Archival)
@Micio should not receive any notification (Thread not in Archival)
coinlocket$ should not receive any notification (Thread not in Archival)

piggy


Edit: seems to be behaving correctly  :)

If your thread is not under Archival, your are not going to receive notification anymore, please make the necessary changes

I did't got notification for this post >
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5051725.msg49089124#msg49089124

I don't know if LoyceV made the post first and then edited it, I guess it was so because I got notification for this post > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4720640.msg49089313#msg49089313

Anyway it's better to report this to be 100% sure :)

You were mentioned in the unedited post. I tried to add it in code-tags, but the forum can't handle it :P

@iasenko i see, this is actually expected to not be recognized, because you see iasenko (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1291828) but what the bot sees is this string (which doesn't meet the searching pattern):

You're wrong. There is a difference between a bot using an account and an account using a bot. An account is something like an I/O interface for a bot. In your version it turns out the car drives the driver.


I'm not newbie, please read the thread carefully. First, I sent a report, then wrote here, then the moderator deleted the bot post and posted here a link to the archive. After that, the developer said "is not a bug but a feature", and the bot after a while posted spam on Russian locale again, as a result I sent the report again and wrote here. Position of the moderator is absolutely clear - that logic of the tool violates the forum rules. I just warn the developer that the logic of the tool can lead to a ban of the bot.


Do you think moderators don't use their brains and incorrectly interpret the rules?

Developer has managed to upgrade the bot, so it will stay in Archive, job done, so now we can turn the page. I wish that every upgrade could be done this fast in any code...

@piggy I've made a new thread but it is not working, the thread is here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5094348.0

It's still using the old thread, it should be enough to send a pm to the bot with options in the subject and the new link in the body of the message


The new registration with the new thread you attempted didn't work because it required to unsubscribe before, otherwise was correct. You can do that as well if you prefer.

There may have been few notification missed within the last hour, as i was deploying a fix (for quoted notification not showing for people having special character in their username like coinlocket$ for example) the bot actually crashed  :)

Now is back online.

Whoo hoo the bot manage to post two mentions in one post :D Well I know how popular Loyce is :)

I was wrong, the square brackets are not the problem, this is:
Proposed solution: add a space:
I added a space in my topic title (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5092983.0), but there are more titles like this.

That's not even the first time :o

If i remember correctly ( i don't have the code available to check right now), there is some code which replace some of the forum tags as they were causing problems and breaking the format while posting the notification.

LoyceV

I've edited the title of this reply as a test @Piggy, I won't edit this post.

In my case i'm using telegram so i won't see the problem, the title displays correctly. I will have a look at it next week and see if there is some easy fix :)


Edit. I see now it broke the formatting

there is some problem with the bot, running it from the vps is returning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_403 getting the latest posts, while from my machine works.

No sure what is the problem unless the ip was banned or blacklisted for some reason  ???

EDIT: Can also be that i had the disk full i had several GB of files i use to debug errors, which i'm now cleaning up  :-\

EDIT2: keep getting the same HTTP_403, need to look into it

@Piggy, I'm really hope that you'll fix the problem.

I don’t even want to think that the bot will gone.

I believe it could be a ban ip after all.

I could put the bot back online using some vpn but would be better to know what is the problem which led to the ban. I'll try to contact theymos and then see if the issue can be worked out somehow.

Me too.
I got so used to it so fast. The first topic I visit everyday lol

I sent i brief pm to theymos explaining the situation hopefully we can find a solution and meet the forum requirements to prevent a ban of the ip :)


EDIT: bot is up again, got support from theyoms but is still unclear what the problem was as the ip was not showing up, but the behavior was consistent with a temporary ip ban.

Very useful tool. Thank you so much @Piggy!

Piggy - any plans to implement more than one alias? In addition to sometimes getting "oeleo", which is currently set up as my alias, I'm also starting to get some users refer to me as "Leo" as well. Would be super helpful to be able to receive notifications for both.

Yes that is in plan, seems reasonable to have up to 3 aliases maximum, i just need some time to implement it and run some test.

With such a common name, you can expect many false positives:

Ahh, fair point. The robot is right again! Doing a search over the last few weeks yields quite a lot of results, as well as a couple of bounty spammers with "Leo" in their name who are posting on a near-daily basis. Oh well, scrap that idea then. :)

Does it have some sort of registration issues? Because I can't subscribe for some reason.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, sending a PM @ bot with subscribe as a subject and a thread link in the body, does nothing.
I have tried twice yesterday, gave it a little time for processing but the thread is still empty.  ???

Love the idea, I was talking about that kind of a bot more than a year ago, especially with telegram in mind.
Back then, none was able to help and now I'm stumbling upon this topic... marvellous job Piggy :)    

Edit: immediately after this post bot woke up... so it's all OK, I guess.
Only one question remains, do I have to "watch" my bot thread to be able to receive notifications on telegram?

I checked the bot and was not running apparently, but i'm not sure why. Anyway i started it back.
The list of users registered has some problem, at the moment is not updated, i need to look into it.

For telegram notification you don't need at all a notification thread, they are independent.

Wow that's even more awesome!
However such thread must be started in order to register with the bot right?
Explanation @#1 is a little unclear, that's why I created the thread for him.

 ;D it works  :P what a toy dude, big THX

you can indeed register without creating a thread in the forum, you provide the telegram username directly, maybe i should make that clear  :)

One little think I’ve noticed recently is that the @Maggiordomo seems to skip notifying when the username is followed by an apostrophe (i.e. DdmrDdmr’s so and so). I figure that you are parsing the username and interpreting trimming full stops comas, semicolons and so on, but I’m not sure if the above case is considered in the rules to interpret the alias.

DdmrDdmr’s doesn't trigger a notification, there can be only one extra character after the username ( so any combination of DdmrDdmr# would work)

It seems that I stopped recieving notifications? There were two quotes of my text on January 30th and I haven't recieved notifications.

Any information if the bot was down?

Yes there have been some issues yesterday, for few hours couldn't reach the forum apparently. I had then to restart it and everything went back to normal.

The notification works for this quote! So everything is in order now. Thank you Piggy:)

Hi Piggy
Just wanted to make you aware of a typo in the signature for your Maggiordomo bot account.

It says:
I assume you wanted to write Managed.

Minor bug: when someone mentions me and quotes another user, the bot tells me I've been "mentioned and quoted":

I noticed that if someone quote a post that I was quoted I am not notified.

Can this be configured somehow in settings? I would like to be notified of such posts.

It doesn't work that way, it is just set to notify for posts which are quoted directly, where is clear somebody is replying to you.

https://i.imgur.com/uLdvhK7.gif
@Piggy and the Gang
Can I have this little suggestion taken in to consideration or eventual evaluation by those who use telegram bot?

Above I have shopped (poorly) the message that bot is giving me, in a manner I would like to see it.
There is no point for the bot to tell me my bitcointalk nick, I'm usually aware of my own name :) (also no name, makes it harder for multi-account-ers)  I have also edited out the massage or rather part of it. There is no reason for including the fraction of a post, it gives almost no insight and sometimes all we get is an emoticon or just few letters.

This way bot could gain a little extra "productivity". Massage is tight, readable, clear and a bit more anonymous (for eventual bystanders). Other than that, bot is flawless, works like a charm.
 

I kindly disagree.
In most cases the small part shown tells me if I want to read the post I was mentioned in or not.

Leave that part this way please.

@Poptok1

Maybe can just be reformatted in a clearer way, keeping the current content. Those few words of the message itself have the purpose to give an idea of the message you are going to find :)

That's a good idea, I like it, I also know my nick :D

I also disagree, sometimes I can see that the reply was a kind of shitpost, so there's no need to check that reply.
Bot is fine, thanks for all your effort Piggy!

I noticed that I don't get notification if I am mentioned in bolded text like @ovcijisir.

Is that normal or maybe not?

It is normal.

The bot sees the bbcode, and it allows only one character after your alias. [/b] are 4 characters.

Exactly, when the username has some formatting the bot  is not able/set to recognize it. It must be in plain text to work.

Ok, good to know that! Thank you Asche and Piggy!

When someone refers to for instance "LoyceV's data", it doesn't notify me either.

Somehow I'm JUST running into this. I sure as hope this doesn't make Telegram more unusable than what it is already.
I've switched over to discord already.

If you are interested in the notifications but Telegram is a deal breaker, you can still have your own thread where the notifications are sent to.  ;)
You can find the instructions in the first post.

This is an amazing thing that you've created Piggy! I love it!

Might want to add for the tele section though that '@' isn't necessary when sending the bot your username on tele. Just simply writing the username works. The other way with the '@' doesn't work.

For the part when you contact the telegram bot, is just required to start a conversation/chat with him by writing anything. It doesn't need to be the username.
I should test the case you mentioned if it didn't work though.

I meant to write 'when sending the bot your username on bitcointalk' typed a little too fast and missed that.

Hope that helps!

Hi Piggy,

suchmoon quoted one of my posts the other day in connection with a user who copy/pasted it and got banned here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1926895.msg49950687#msg49950687
I found it by accident when viewing new posts in Meta.
I never received a notification in my thread for this quote, any idea why?

As usual, might be an edit.

Yes that may be the reason.

In any case Pmalek i can double check the message and see if for some reason is not picking up the notification.

No need to check it I think. It was an edit. I was adding a few quotes at a time due to the enormous size of that post.

@Piggy Do you think if you scale the bot to send a notification on a watched list thread would be a good idea?

Personally, I don't like the way BT notify a news post on a watch list thread via email.

That would require quite a bit of work as the bot is not designed for that specifically and since the forum is already providing that notification, it would be kind of overdoing. :)

Great idea! Merit for You!  ;D

Also it might be a good thing if you mention in the rules if you have to use @ for telegram username or not. Although it seems obvious.

Can you make the bot detect and notify you when someone mentions you inside a tag (bold, italic, size, etc)? I’ve seen many users do some kind of bold+bigger size mention when answering people.

How many resources does the bot use? The number of users has significantly risen since I have checked this topic last time.


He would have to make the bot detect at least 3 extra characters after user's nickname. Some people add 's to nicknames and the bot does not send notification in such case either.

When someone refers to me as Loyce (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=459836), the bot doesn't notify me either. For my nickname, it would be okay to detect it as part of any long string, but for shorter names (such as Vod) that would give false positives.
I'd also like to know when someone refers to loyce.club, but that's usually part of a much longer URL too.

Noted, in any case doesn't make any difference, is able to recognize either way.



It's still fine it seems, there are more users but relatively a small amount to handle.


I think this case may be collapsed somehow into looking for something like this :

]%anyspace%username%anyspace%[

%anyspace% is just one or more empty spaces

Then combined with an extra character at the end. I can check and if there is no side effects, i can add this as well.

Have you tried setting an alias? Try sending a private message to the bot with the subject options and include the following text in the body alias:Loyce. I didn't test it so I have no idea if it's going to work.

That works already:

What I meant is someone posting this:
or

Now should work the notification also for all those cases where the names are between tags like these, there can even be some space before or after the username:


Testing:

 Loyce  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=459836)

TryNinja

BitCryptex

Thanks, that works!

I'm using my alt to test this: http://loyce.club/trust/ranking/

Amazing enhancement. Thanks :)

Looking forward to see the next new features.

How is the plagiarism checking feature going you mentioned a few months ago?

Didn't actually make much progresses on that unfortunately, it's mainly matter of coming up with a way to automate some effective check, which doesn't seem very easy.  :-\

Hi Piggy,
First of all, I've been using your bot for a few days and I'm thrilled. It's exactly the feature I've been wanting from Bitcointalk for a long time.
Today I noticed that the bot has problems with quotes in some situations. I don't know if this is a known problem. I just want to inform you about it.

Here is the notification post I am talking about:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5127023.msg50469983#msg50469983

I guess DarkKnightNeverDie messed up his quoting when he made his post, and just after he posted it he saw the mistake and corrected it in the given cool down time, so the last edit time stamp doesn't appear. The bot reads only the recent posts and not the late editions.
Could also be a bug, but less likely.

Yes this seems to be the case, has been happening before and not much can be done.

@tyz

Can you add notifications on thread titles? I wasn't notified when Lauda & Loyce please confirm your gender...  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5128579.0) was created.

Yes that is doable and usefull, i will add it as soon as i have some spare time to work on it.

if we are subscribed on bot telegram , do we will have no longer a notification on our forum bitcointalk thread notifications?
@Piggy

either telegram or on the forum not both.

so this is why i only kept receiving the notifications only on my telegram, have been wondering why my thread not being updated.
Do we will have an option to receive both notifications or we can setting our preference which one we will use on future updates?

I'm not planning to allow both at the same time. You can just use one or the other, if both are set the notification are just sent through telegram.

Received merits, and earned merits are the same thing unlike airdropped merits.

Hey Piggy !
Thanks a lot for this incredible tool your provided for us all. :) It is really helpful !

Has it been already suggested to add a feature that allows to disable notifications when some specific users name/quote me ?
There are several persons I put on ignore on the forum but they still quote me in their posts and I am getting notified of that.

I couldn't care less of their posts but still it attracts my attention.
Hence why I ask if this has been suggested already in the past. :)

Maybe this can be done by interacting with Maggiordomo on Telegram ?

Hi,

Yes, this was suggested some time ago already, but for the moment i have decided not to implement it, mainly to avoid creating a bottle neck , stability problems and eventual slow down while processing the messages.

Just using your bot yesterday mate, it's nice. Now I receive a notification in my telegram when someone quotes me.
But, just recently I receive a notification in my telegram account, its not me but someone else accounts. Hope its just one time mistake, cause if this happened again my telegram will be filled with someone else's account.

https://i.imgur.com/mCNdcTL.jpg?1

as i can see @GreatArkansas just register himself here

Hi,

Yes it looks like some mistake with the handle of telegram pheraps, I'll have a look tomorrow and see where is the problem. I guess you are receiving all the notification  for GreatArkansas  ???

Yup, all GreatArkansas  notif, even the one i make earlier here,  Even when you wrote this reply to me without the "@" sign.
https://i.imgur.com/5FWJLXy.png?1

asayoyaasa now you should receive just your own notification even when GreatArkansas is mentioned, due to a bug the system assigned the same handle as you for telegram notification  :)

Cool yeah I see only one notification now even though you mention GreatArkansas name, keep up the good job mate. well done, thanks once again!

Hey Piggy I really like your Maggieordomo bot here ! Any word on the progress of keywords? This could be a very useful feature for all of us!

-it has been asked already but some time has passed sorry to bother.

For the moment i didn't look at a way to implement something like that, i'm a bit short on time these days, maybr later on :)

@Piggy does the recent bug about receiving a notification for some else account fixed? I just recently got that too with the username @GreatArkansas

I'm not sure what is the cause of it yet, but tomorrow i can at least fix manually the issue for you.

Probably i should contact GA to understand what command is trying to use (unless he is using deliberately somebody else telegram handle, which seems unlikely :) )

There was a bug i found while checking the code which confirm the Telegram handle registration, which was causing the problem of receiving somebody else notification.

Now nobody should receive notification meant for GreatArkansas anymore :)

vv181

Great work!

I just want to confirm you after I've received notifications from others account, so far the bot work flawlessly as usual.

Hi,

There is going to be a change for what concern the notifications within the forum, we are moving from Thread to PM, since the PM limitations for Maggiordomo have been lifted.

Using a thread for the notifications was also interfering/messing up the "show unread posts since last visit" as theymos told me.

You don't have to do anything for this switch and you either receive your notifications through PM or Telegram (  as before )

Is probably going to happen sometime tomorrow.  :)

That's just because the ICO spam slowed down :P I used to see mainly ANN-threads, now it is indeed mainly your bot.

I'm not sure if I'm going to like this change though, one of the problems with PM is that it doesn't show the latest unread, it opens the last page when I click it. If I receive 20 PMs per day from a bot, I can easily overlook real PMs.
I'll see how it goes first :)

Hey Piggy,

Just wanted to let you know I received a double notification in 2 occasions over the last few days. Don't know if you want/need more information or if this a known issue.

Great, I was hoping this to happen it was nice to get a notifications in the thread but those should have been self-moderated. Poor Maggiordomo, had a really big chance to become the Top poster in the forum but... ;)

I liked the thread system. You bookmark your thread and check from time to time to see if there are any mentions of your name. Thanks Piggy for letting us know.

I would love to subscribe for the notifications, but I am a little confused now that there is going to be a new update.
Since, you are moving away from the thread system to PMs. Do new applicants still have to create a thread in the archival board before applying?

It can be is a little more unconvinient if you receive a lot of notification indeed, but this way it's a bit cleaner on the forum side. Let's see how is going after the change.


I think i found out the problem, i saw happening few times to me as well. I'll implement a fix for it tomorrow as well


Till the change happen yes, you need to provide a thread, but since i'm doing the change tomorrow i just suggest to wait.

Thanks for your work on the bot. I have been using it for several weeks and it helps me a lot to keep up with all my disscussions.

That it now notifies via pm is also good. But I would like to have an option implemented where you can choose to be informed via pm or thread. I think with many notifications a thread is clearer and easier to manage than pm's. Is this possible?

I certainly prefer the thread. I have 40+ pages in it and it works great inside my watchlist so I don't have to go elsewhere to check and it doesn't clutter my inbox. PMs will be a major PITA.

I was just wondering if this change was "suggested" due to some forum considerations, or if you are at liberty to go ahead with the change, or even open-up the possibility to choosing the notification method (Telegram, Thread, PM).

The current solution was causing some confusion and problems in the forum ( as previously stated ) and using pm was the next natural choice to substitute the thread notification, since it was possible to lift the limitations.

With pm you have to do some extra work to delete them, but unfortunately there is not a better solution i could think of, without counting switching to telegram.  :-\

What if the bot edited the last post in the thread (by inserting new notifications at the top) instead of creating a new post every time? Up to the 64k limit, then start a new post or remove old notifications off the bottom.

That would reduce the number of posts significantly and perhaps would keep theymos happy.

It would keep me happy too :)

I like this proposal, in fact any thing but PM will be great, i get an email for every message i receive, i can't imagine receiving an email for every notification, let alone the fact that other PMs will be lost in between, if the PM thing is a must i think i will have to migrate to Telegram.

It's also a great public ledger, I've seen shenanigans that's piggy's bot has helped me figure out and give reference to.
This is a good idea!  But , then it cant notify you can it? No new reply? If it is possible I think it would have been brought up in the reputation thread for edit proofs? Im just thinking out loud.

And the notifications can be shorter, just "you've been mentioned here >link and the title of the thread here <".
Basically oneliners :)


It will notify you if he quote the old one first and then delete it.  

Yes, unfortunately no notifications then. You'd have to bookmark it or something.


I think deleting and reposting would cause essentially the same problems as it does now.

I was thinking it may be a good compromise to have the notifications through PM but with the possibility to decide an interval of time to receive the PM with the notifications (if there is any). I would rather move away from the thread solution.

But i will have to postpone to next week to have something like that.

Are they active now the PM notifications or we still receive notifications in the thread? Shall we remove the threads after we move to PMs? I'd like to keep mine as a reference for now, and maybe delete it later on.

As far as I know, users can't delete threads. Moving to Archival is the only option, and it's there already.

Is it possible to be able to choose between PM and thread?

The PM structure of SMF doesn't allow to read it as a conversation so it is not possible to have all links in the same place. To me this is a step backwards regarding usability.

Not that I care since I use the telegram function, but if I had to choose I would prefer the Thread any time.

I am signed up to a thread and receive notifications from a few weeks.

Today after reading this thread I signed up for Telegram notifications, but I did not receive anything.

What is working actually, right now?

Did you pm the bot on telegram?

You need to do this to enable it.

I haven't sent a PM to bot on Telegram but I found him and there was start button to start the bot, started and sent hello.

Of course, I sent PM with options in the topic line and telegram:myTelegramusername in body, to user Maggiordomo here on Bitcointalk today.

Still, nothing in Telegram and I was quoted and username was used multiple times so far.

I too liked the thread system for the same benefits. I think PM will be a good enough alternative. I this working right now? I saw a @Piggy post that it should be up and running, but I don't see PMs yet.

I strongly suggest you "Read the Fucking manual". After all that's what it's made for.
It is writting in the OP and then I told you to do it again. Why don't you take advice when you came here asking for it?


If you did all this and it is still not working you might have an issue. But contacting the bot is mandatory.

I have already and everything worked until yesterday. I did everything from the manual and that is why I ask for help because is not working.

If you try to help then be calm and do it, and if not, why give answers to my questions?

I was one of the first members who use this bot, so it is clear that I have read the OP multiple times, even today.

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My notifications on Telegram still won't work and I don't receive any PM's either. If anybody has any suggestions what could be wrong I will be grateful

I'm sorry, you stated yourself you did not send the bot a pm. Which you need to do. If that's not it I can't help you any further.
When rereading I see you send hello after that. So you technically did send a pm. Reading too fast again. Sorry bro.

No problem. Peace.

I tried starting the bot in Telegram and I got it to work. Unfortunately, it sends me the wrong user mentions. I’m not sure if this happened to anyone but any suggestions?

That has been happening before, i thought was fixed but apparently there is still some problem  :-\, i suggest to turn it off for the moment, till i have time to have a look.

Well, no worries. I'm thankful for your efforts. Let me know if you need something from me like what I did or something.

So actually any of notifications are working?

I don't get any PM's, no new messages in the thread, and Telegram is empty too.

https://i.imgur.com/V3CUSKc.png

Just want to add that this really great tool and again finding all the posts about me or somehow related to me will be difficult as before if you can not bring the bot Maggiordomo back to work.

At the moment notifications in telegram for new sign up is not working as is not picking up the right id for some bug.

Switch to pm didn't happen yet.

i don't know why the message that should be sent to you but it sent to my telegram?

https://i.imgur.com/RaO9M5j.png

and i already pm the piggy bot but the bot still not respond or posted that i registered in my thread

Hey feryjhie,

I'm the one receiving your mentions etc.

https://i.imgur.com/vYwCpkzl.png (https://imgur.com/vYwCpkz)

This is getting out of hand.

Luckily I am still receiving my own notifications hehe.

What would be interesting is to see if your mentions get posted on bitcointalk again if you deactivate telegram function, or if this is mixed up also, and the other persons telegram gets deactivated  ::)

It seems there is some issue contacting the forum so you sill not be able to receive notifications at the moment, i may have triggering some protection, due to multiple http request.

You should wait 1 second between requests. Bitcointalk allows more connections in burst only.

I received notifications in my thread in the Archival section and now a PM as well so both seem to be working unless Piggy turned them off a few minutes ago. I am still hoping the bot will continue to work using the thread system, the PMs are messy already. 

i had it on temporarily for some testing but now everything is off, i'm just hitting some 503 (Service Temporarily Unavailable), from time to time but i don't know if it's just the line or some of the test i did. I'll try to run it again a bit later.

Now there is notification interval property (which i will explain better later) that indicate the frequency at which you will receive PM with the notifications occurred in that amount of time (default time for everybody is 60 minutes).

The binding with telegram for new registration should be back working as well.

EDIT: Now is back on, still checking how it goes

This is not good and I hope this could be resolved soon.

Only for update purposes, I still don't get any notifications, even from somebody else  ;).

try to un-register and register back again, now should pick up the right telegram handle, if you get somebody else notification that person should do the same

do i just have to send pm un-register/register back to the bot?
because before i receive a notification from wwzsocki but now i received notification from peggy

https://i.imgur.com/NFsBpZe.png

How to do it exactly? Shall I send UNSUBSCRIBE as a PM to the Maggiordomo bot here on Bitcointalk? Or only reconnect in Telegram?

Please be more specific, thank you.

Everything goes through pm as per instruction on the first post. However everything is down at the moment, so it won't work

Indeed I found exact instructions in the first post, sorry.

I recently PM-ed Maggiordomo and I haven't seen the DOWN on the OP until I have read this post. Would it still be considered even though it's somewhat a previous message?

Yes it's going to get processed when is coming up again

Just want to update that I have unsubscribed and subscribed back again to Maggiordomo.

From this moment I started to get PM's here on Bitcointalk with notifications which is great of course but still Telegram won't work.

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I want to add that this is such a great tool that Theymos should add this as a standard feature. Is so easy to find all the threads you are involved in.

This is just insane how many quotes and mentions one is missing every day.

Maggiordomo notified me two times about winning a lottery and promotion of which I would never remember by myself because the requirement was to post in the thread which I did randomly.

@Wwzsocki you sure miss a lot without the bot, hey piggy i want to inform you that i stopped getting notifications on my bot thread and i started getting the PMs, so i suppose everything is working fine for now.

about your telegram notification, it still sends me again after i re-subscribe the bot

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btw @piggy did you change the setting for the bot? because i just turn on the notification by posting in my thread, not by PM

I am a little confused with the new development.

I received the first notification via pm today. Does this mean the thread notification turned off completely or is there still an option to choose between pm and thread notificaiton? I would prefer the latter.

Thanks for the update. As for now, I am getting PM's here in Bitcointalk (which is great  ;D) so we have to wait for OP to answer about the Telegram problem.


read the thread. just a few posts above.

Thanks, but I can not see where my question is answered. I tried to do unsubscribe and subscribed again. I only receive pms while the opening post (updated yesterday) is talking about thread. That's the reason why I am confused actually.

Starting thread need to be updated, there are still some adjustments that need to be made. I put a note now.

Telegram registration should work, i can have a look tomorrow if there is some problem.

are you still confused? or you were ? anyhow , if you read the OP you will see an update by piggy stating the following


so from now on, only PMs and Telegram notifications ,no more archive threads , which is sad - but indeed better than nothing.

Hey Piggy,

I’m now receiving the correct notifications for me in Telegram and I can say that it’s definitely working now. I thank you for this service you are doing. You’re awesome.

This is just for those who want to receive the notification through the forum:

If you want to change the frequency at which you will receive the PM notifications, you can send this command with a number between 0 and 12*60, this indicates the delay in minutes which will occur from the first notification before it will be delivered. I set it to 60 minutes for everybody but is 0 to new people subscribing which means it will be instant.


If something doesn't work as expected please report it in here

I'm unsure about the delay: Most of the time, 1 hour isn't enough to consolidate notifications, so I get the notification exactly 1 hour late. And if I'm online at that moment, most of the time I've seen it already.
When I woke up, I had more than 1 notification, at least at (my) night it would be good to consolidate notifications.
Would it be possible to choose fixed times for notifications, say once a day at my lunch break so I can see if I missed anything?

Yes it may be an option as well

I found PM's a lot better as notifications in the thread.

I have them in a click of a button and to access the thread it was two clicks because it needs to be bookmarked or saved.

Sometimes I had to look for the thread using google search which was time consuming too.

With PM's enabled Maggiordomo bot is again my most used tool on the forum  ;D.

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Are you still getting them?

Because I don't receive any Telegram notifications.

my last telegram notification from telegram was yesterday because i already restart the bot and after that i never received any notification.

feryjhie you don't have telegram set on your profile so you need to follow the procedure.


wwzsocki you are set up correctly it seems and you should just receive telegram notifications, i need to verify if something is wrong then.

Edit wwzsocki seems has sent the notification to somebody in telegram, if you didnt get it unsubscribe and register telegram again

Im from the phone now and cannot do very much

Indeed after unsubscribe and subscribe back in the Telegram, notifications started to work as supposed to.

But there is again a problem with PM's because I stopped to receive them from the last few hours and I was quoted and mentioned during this time a few times for sure.

Let's hope that now after resubscribing PM's will be working back again as they should.

Thanks for the update and sorry to be such a pain in the ...

That is how it's working you can just use either pm or telegram,

Ok, so everything is working as supposed to. I am getting only Telegram notifications now.

Thank you for great support in the last few days. I will merit this thread with my first free smerit.

Hello!
If I want to receive notifications once every three hours, I need to send PM to Maggiordomo with subject options and setting:


or


??

Thanks!

This,  the other would not work

For some reason I no longer receive notifications from the bot in Telegram...

Same here, from yesterday I don't get any notifications. I will try to unsubscribe again and subscribe only for PM's here on Bitcointalk.

I hope this will work and update here if not.

I turned it back on now.

Oh, anyways I found notifications via PM a lot easier to manage because I don't need to go to any other app only can see them from my account after a click of a button.

Thanks for the fast reply.

Tech issue?
Anyway, for me, telegram notifications are most useful than pm
Is nice if you can extract some statistics about use of bot

it's not working for me, the last notification i got was about 40 hours ago, despite the fact that i was mentioned a few times after the quoted post has been posted, anyone else having the same issue ?

edit:


The forum notification (PM)

which one that you choose the notification to send? because i choose the one via telegram and everything works perfectly

I wanted to ask you something. Would it be possible to add a feature to your bot so that it sends a notification every time a user I choose created a new thread?
I want to follow a few users from this forum and be informed every time they create new threads. Just new threads, not every post they make. Do you think that is possible to do?

You can already do that with a script that checks differences in the last topics posted page of these users.

I really don't think Piggy will want to implement this in his bot, eventhough it would be quite easy.

Thats interesting. Is that script available somewhere on the forum? Or can you suggest who I should contact to get the script?
Unfortunately I dont have any coding knowledge just in case you are proposing that I create one myself.

The script has nothing to do with the forum. It applies to any webpage really.

You can also try using third party checking software like this: https://visualping.io/

Here are a few more options: https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/detect-website-change-notification/

You're looking for a browser extension, such as Check4Change (https://check4change.com/).

General warning: always be careful with browser extensions, especially in combination with irreversible cryptocurrencies.

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Update: asche's suggestion looks much better :)

Also the browser extension only works when... well when the browser is executing on your machine ;)

Which can be an issue when you want to be alerted at any time hehe.

The best use case here is to execute such script on a vps you own. Some exist written in bash. But as I understand it you have little technical knowledge so you will have to rely on 3rd party software.

Loyce <3

In the past i use this trick
- curl url
- md5 it
- check if equal to stored md5
- another curl for send telegram msg

Check my github blackout314/boilerplate/shell

I used in the past for check exams results of college (with email)

Thank you asche, I will try with https://visualping.io and see if it detects changes in the profiles on some of the users I want to follow.
In the address bar I will put the link to their Show the last topics started by this person. I guess that is the right way to do it.

I just don't have time to implement something like that, i can barely keep up with what there is now between work and everything else.  :)
And as you pointed out above, you know exactly where to look to find which threads were started from some user unlike in the case of a mention.

I edited the first post to reflect the recent changes and wrote a better (hopefully) short version which should guide new users with the essentials information on how to get started.

First of all i need to thank you for this bot. It helps me a lot. You did a great job with inventing and implementing it.


Today i get this bugged massage that i would like to report to You.

https://i.imgur.com/Snxf12l.png

i see, just to clarify, the problem is with the formatting of the message, all the link in those quote will bring you to the right post where you have been mentioned, right?

All links works great. Its just formatting.

Hi @Piggy, I really appreciated your notification bot, thank you so much.

I have something noticed about your bot (Maggiordomo) account, if you look at the signature of the bot account, I think the word "Managed" misspelt to "Manged".
Thanks.

Thank you for the great work. Your bot is a great idea that makes life easier on the forum.

I'd like to ask you something. Could you make that the bot does not send messages from users that I ignore.

I also thought about something like that. However I think implementing it won't be that easy if it has to be automatic, since your ignore list is private afaik.
The only way would be to tell the bot who you want to ignore.

An ignore list for the bot could be as simple as one thread in which each user can create and update one post with an ignore list (with userIDs). Maggiordome can check that thread every couple of hours for updates.

The perfect solution offered LoyceV:


I hope the respected Piggy ever find the time to implement it.

It would be great if we were also able to block receiving notifications from specific threads or sections. Being constantly mentioned in merit related threads disturbs me. Blacklisting them manually just like LoyceV described would be convenient. Thanks for your work!

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but on the same thread, I was mentioned almost at the same time (~3 minutes interval), and this happened.

https://i.imgur.com/OzHirjJ.png

As you could see, there is one message for the two mentions on the same thread and another message from the same message on that same thread just the second one. I don't know how it happened, but it did. Maybe this could be a useful thing to you @Piggy

Occasionally, Maggiordome still shows the same post twice:

I get a lot of mentions about some hockey player that people are talking about, so I would prefer a way to ignore certain threads.

A keyword map is still highly desired, Like pm the bot our keyword settings. A IFTTT check?.

Have you tried enabling the "@"-only feature of the bot?

I want the plain username feature to be enabled though, since most people just use `Mitchell` and not `@Mitchell`. Being able to ignore a thread/section would fully resolve my issues.

https://i.ibb.co/GkXxyGR/52166516.png

I think that interesting and not that hard to implement (while having this bot already working) feature would be to enable users to add list of hot worlds that will trigger notification. For example altcoin investor could add his hodl token name f.e. "VITE" and every times someone will post anything about his token he will always knew about that. No matter if its new scam accusation tread or new partnership.

This could be used also for "scam/abuse" for scam hunters and DT members.

I was thinking about doing it by myself but its far beyond my skills so I decided to drop it here. Maybe Piggy will use this idea :)

Thanks a lot to Piggy for this lovely tool and Asche for pushing it accross my path (and translating it into a German thread where I finally understood it, well more or less).

I now receive the PMs as desired, just wondering how to get those notifications into the thread created for that specific use.

I’ve seen you created the thread on Archival yesterday, but it is no longer a feature (it was disabled some months ago). You can receive the notifications either through PMs or Telegram. 

Some of it is my fault, I need to update the translated version :)

Will do it right away

Ah right, I see. Makes sense now. Thanks @DdmrDdmr

@Asche: Absolutely :D But also DarkStar_ since he has (had) that sort of thread for his notifications, too where I have read about the piggy-bot for the first time. Well I guess till that point in the past where it was changed. Didn´t check for actuality and assumed it would still work that way (even though I was wondering that there is no word about it in Piggy´s OP - well, there was the clue :) )

Got it all now, will stick with the PMs then and delete my post in Archival 8)

My name was mentioned in this thread but I didn't receive a PM notification about it. I came across it because I browse through that board anyway.
Just checking if there were maybe some changes to the way the bot works?

The post wasn't edited (see here (http://loyce.club/archive/posts/5228/52287728.html)), so the bot must have missed it. My guess is this happens once in a while due to a few seconds delay in downloading posts (because of internet downtime).

But how to find all IDs of already ignored users?

When I try to use the "Ignore user options" function in my personal account settings I keep getting the 524 error after the page can't load for a very long time.

https://i.imgur.com/aykpKMQ.png

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I want to ask another question about the code to be sure if I understand everything correctly.

If I want to have all the bot functions to be switched on I have to send a PM to Maggiordomo (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2340148) using "option" in the subject line and this code:


Right?

Do you have a very long ignore list? It's known to cause time-outs, and you'll probably need theymos to fix it.

I think so because I keep adding users from the start and only a couple of times removed somebody. When I wanted to check my ignore list it was not possible. It keeps loading until the error shows up, so I assume it is happening because the list is a very long one.


How to do it? Just send a PM?

Thanks for the useful bot, it works like a clock on the forum, but I can’t configure it with a telegram, notifications do not come to me, help to configure it correctly, write down the setup process by points, preferably with pictures!

@pishite
You can either receive notifications via PM or via Telegram but not both! So if you are already getting them through PM forget about Telegram.
Read through the entire first post, it is all explained there. You need to contact the bot from the same Telegram ID that you registered with in order for the bot to connect your account to your Telegram account.

I want to be notified through PM in the forum:

1. Write a PM to Maggiordomo by placing in the subject subscribe.
2. Write in the body of PM notificationinterval:0.
3. Send  PM to Maggiordomo.

https://i.imgur.com/Li2d9Mc.png

I want to be notified through Telegram:

1. Contact @Maggiordomo_Service_bot on telegram (with the same telegram username used for registering to the bot).
2. Write something to him in Telegram chat, example: start.

https://i.imgur.com/Ohq3xRm.png

1. Write a PM here on Bitcointalk to Maggiordomo by placing in the subject subscribe.
2. Write in the body: telegram:yourTelegramUsername (doesn't matter if with @ or without)
3. Send PM to Maggiordomo.

https://i.imgur.com/bTeWIjr.png

I know this is obvious for many but as we see not tech-savvy members can be confused even with such a simple task. I already had to explain these setup to somebody step by step more than once. I hope this would be helpful.

Questions regarding the notification bot.

I have idea to use the bot for user subscription - when  the chosen user post a new thread you get notification.
Also possiblity to subscribe for a section ( we have  notifications by email which is not working pretty well, sometimes some of the new threads are missing).

It can be only a Telegram notifier.

I don't know if you have time for this and I don't know if the other members will be interested in these features. Just giving an idea here.

Edit: I don't see donation address in the OP.
You already put quite some time and effort everyone to benefit from, I think it's necessary to have a donation address. In case you don't want to put it on the OP, please PM me one, I'm very pleased with your service and I want to send a small tip. I suggest everyone using your service to do so. We have to encourage the all the worthy people to keep develop :)
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This has nothing to do with my question.

Just subscribed for the notifications by forum pm.
I remember reading that i have to create a topic, so i just created it and send link to the bot with "subscribe" as a subject. Now by checking OP i think no need for the topic i just have created because no mention of it in the instructions for subscribe.

The bot doesn't work with a topic anymore.

Notifications are sent only by telegram or PM.

Everything is explained in the OP.

This is amazing how the bot function 🙂
PMs are really instant, but two things came into my mind: One, i see many users using the bot and their number is increasing by time, and i see that the bot is working using a forum account who sends and receives messages from/to subscribers; i know that there is a limitation for sending messages in the forum setup. Does the bot accout have special powers authorized by admin or the increase of the number of subscribers may negatively affect the function of the bot? Two, what if my username have been quoted in a reply quoted in another reply which have been quoted n another reply... should i still receive notifications?

Whatever, Great Thanks for Piggy ❤️

@Piggy

What is the encoding of the bot's notifications? I realised that it messes up any characters that are not included in the English/Latin alphabet. Are there any plans to convert everything to UTF-8? I really like the simplistic approach on seeing who tagged me, when they tagged me and what were their first few sentences but as a Turkish user, because Turkish has a lot of special characters, everything is jumbled.

https://desu.win/i/1sJnp.png

Here is an example.

Not sure if this is something that could be added to the bot, but would it be possible to ban notifications from a particular user from the bot?

Bot is amazing by the way Piggy, been great throughout my time here!

I've asked this already in the past, and nope, this is very hardly doable.  :-\
Yes, Maggiordomo is amazing and I love the bot as well ! It is so convenient.

However I'd gladly pass on being notified everytime game-not-protect (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=874254) pastes his list of "extremely mentally ill or brain dead bitcointalk account".
Anyone who supports a flag against them will get on that list since he just copy/pastes from the flag he got.

It would be a great feature if there was a way to not receive notifications when certain people mention my name or quote my messages. Sort of like an ignore list.

Thanks.

Suggestion: create a separate topic for ignore lists, something like Add comments to Flags on LoyceV's Trust Flag viewer (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5193695.0). The bot can scrape the thread for posts once in a while, and users can just update their list in their post.
If it helps, I can create a thread, scrape it for you, and output usernames (or userIDs) in txt-files somewhere on loyce.club.

Yes, the bot account restrictions for sending messages have been lifted as stated by Piggy in the following post:

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As far as I know, you will get the notification. Unless you quote your post.

I am not familiar with how the OP's bot works, but I would imagine he is already capable of scraping and parsing information. You need to sign up via a PM that I presume is scraped/parsed.

Should I expect a reply from the bot after sending a message entitled options?

https://i.ibb.co/stMsv89/IMG-20191128-184328.jpg (https://ibb.co/XVvFZcx)

I'm still receiving PM notifications from the bot including topics that I am not subscribed to, as you can see my username is a common word. Every time a post has a word "text", I'm still being notified

Thanks

I just discovered your project thanks to this topic (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5209107.msg53330085#msg53330085).

Congratulations for the whole project, it's pretty impressive to see !

Do you have an API for posts that you scrape in the future ?

Piggy was last seen online 28th of October, this is like almost two months now. He was quite active before, I hope he is doing well.
Does anyone have any idea how Piggy is doing?

Mhh.Actually he’s been quite silent on other media too.
I’ll investigate (but I’m sure he’s been notified of these posts).

'before or after registering' — where exactly am I supposed to register in the first place!?

I sent pm and commands to bot, didn't receive any response.

I am pretty sure, I'm doing something stupid that I am not aware of yet, help would be much appreciated.

Send a PM with subject subscribe to Maggiordomo (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=2340148), as explained in the OP (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5023605.msg45324722#msg45324722).

Nitpicking the unimportant things: the correct spelling is Maggiordomo, Italian for "Butler".
Sorry, for being an old grump today (today only?)

Wait, I just realized my username on telegram and on here are different :/

And there I thought I finally managed to write it correctly :(

Thanks O0

(I recently discovered "undocumented" smileys")

>:D