Spring RTS Engine

I sent a brief BA 7.95 release post just to discover how the system works. I got the same "Warning: extract() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/alantaifirestar/springinfo.info/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 216" error as knorke posted above, so maybe it didn't get through. I'll pm you a u/n and email.

Set up, I got that while adding your user too, it'd have been handy to have xdebug on that server for back traces but then that would be heresey

Please see this thread:
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=31912
There could potentially be bad things on springinfo or something?

AF wrote:I'd also like to again reiterate that people should sign up, even if they never intend to login, else everything they do gets attributed to myself. Apparently I'm extremely active in the community, my output is greater than everyone elses combined

You do not have to post my videos by yourself, several days late. Either automatic and instantly, like it is happening for other youtube accounts, or not at all.

Better late than never, currently missing attribution to yourself.

I'm not in a good position to add feeds at the moment, as new stuff is brought in and published at the time they're brought in, not the time they're published. So adding your other playlists would mean the entire news feed would be knorke youtube videos, which I don't consider to be optimal. Upgrading to the version of the automation that fixes that bug leads to duplication issues.

I can fix these issues but my primary machine is out of action and being repaired, a combination of faults, + faulty replacement parts has meant I won't have it back till next week. This windows machine is a nightmare as git clones etc fail 70% of the time, no reason indicated

I'm adding placeholder accounts for people so their stuff is pulled in as theirs.

If like knorke you're unhappy with how your own feed is pulled in, you could claim said account and ammend your own feeds to have different URLs, prefixes, etc

In the meantime, there's now author archives, e.g.

http://www.springinfo.info/author/knorke/

AF wrote:If like knorke you're unhappy with how your own feed is pulled in, you could claim said account and ammend your own feeds to have different URLs, prefixes, etc

In the meantime, there's now author archives, e.g.

http://www.springinfo.info/author/knorke/

How to do this? I can not even find the login field or something.

I have no details to provide you with an account so I setup one with your name assigned to a temporary email, the user is a placeholder at the moment.

If you can get me an appropriate email to assign it to then you'll be able to go to the standard WP login/admin panel and request a new password

i already registered an account named "knorke" some time ago.
i just do not see where to login.

That account was deleted along with a tonne of spam accounts, only my own account and forbodings survived the cull as they were the only active accounts

Issues and requests for Springinfo now go here:

https://github.com/Tarendai/springinfo/issues

I know there are feeds to be added and changed, and things code wise to fix, Ill be adding some myself but I wont catch them all, so raise issues.

The repository also contains a plugin used as part of the automation to provide compatability with themes for redirects and images

https://github.com/Tarendai/springinfo/issues/2
replied

You'll be glad to know I now have my macbook back, catching up on things over the next few days

bump?

Doing this involves so much needless mental juggling, it took 5 tabs of webpages to do just 1 feed

- 1 to tell me how to turn a youtube channel into an RSS
- 1 to tell me what the feeds were
- 1 showing the github issue
- 1 showing this response
- 1 showing the add new feed page on springinfo

I managed to add the Zero-K feed

it took 5 tabs of webpages to do just 1 feed

A stony road lies ahead. http://springrts.com/wiki/Associated_De ... e_Channels

Mildly related:

So adding your other playlists would mean the entire news feed would be knorke youtube videos, which I don't consider to be optimal.

Meanwhile every few months excactly this happens on the frontpage.

@That screenshot of current feed - something is broken. There have been both BA/ZK (& maybe others) SpringInfo posts, which did, at least initially, appear on that feed and are much more recent that most of the Evo items there.

I've been asking for someone to help with the addition of things for a while, I can keep the technical parts running, but the adding new feeds, reviewing posts, etc is not something I have the time for. I'm indeed aware of a lot of feeds I think should be in there but aren't, I simply don't have the time for it.

The time I did have adding things however was spent arguing with Knorke in this thread. I still haven't been given an RSS feed, after all this time. All it's managed is to sap all energy out of the project, and confuse the hell out of me every time I try and revisit it. If i had just been given an RSS feed to begin with all of this would have been done a very, very long time ago.

Thus, all new requests for additional feeds are to use the additional feed form I added.

Simply posting a youtube playlist as is will be ignored as trolling. The system uses RSS feeds, if you want something added, provide a feed

tl;dr:

AF wrote:I'm indeed aware of a lot of feeds I think should be in there but aren't, I simply don't have the time for it.

That is the status-quo since 2012.
I do not have that much of a problems with delays - they can always come up. But do not accuse me of "sapping your energy" if you repeatedly stated things like "prefered to work for paying customer" or having "computer problems."

--a brief history of blabla--

Thu Jul 26, 2012

AF wrote: If he wants to setup individual playlists then that's even better and I can automate on a finer grained basis putting relevant videos into different categories rather than just 'knorke' 'youtube' and 'videos'

two days later:
Sat Jul 28, 2012

knorke wrote:so i made two new playlists into which new stuff will go:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL81F8751D716422BE
zero-k

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL45972DFEBA7D69E9
other spring

Sat Jul 28, 2012 11:27 pm

AF wrote:A hint of things to come:

http://www.springinfo.info/zero-k/

Numerous youtube feeds have also been added to the list

Wed Aug 01, 2012
I uploaded a video on youtube, but it did not appear on frontpage.

knorke wrote:the new spiderman movie is on youtube.
but is not in news.

Thu Aug 02, 2012 6:35 am

AF wrote:It's on springinfo, but springinfo isn't what's powering the frontpage. Forboding is the one who can change that.

http://www.springinfo.info/type/post-format-video/

...a few unrelated posts...
Then some days later, I upload another video.
Again it does not appear on frontpage, reason is:

AF wrote:Because I didn't get around to approving it yet

...one month passes...
I upload another video, it does not appear on frontpage. I ask why:
Mon Jul 08, 2013 8:06 pm

knorke wrote:btw on friday i added new video to my "spring" youtube playlist but it did not show up.

The reply is:
Wed Jul 10, 2013

AF wrote:Because you don't just post videos on spring, you post irrelevant stuff, and the automated system auto-posts the non-spring stuff.

Note: This is after you AF already had the links to the spring-only playlists.
I write that and link to them again:

Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:20 am

knorke wrote:Since some time spring-related is in two seperate playlists named
"spring" and "zero-k"
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.ph ... 60#p526000

Fri Jul 12, 2013 11:39 am

AF wrote:Yes but can you get 2 rss feeds for those?

This is first time AF asks me for rss feeds.
...After short posts of "what & why", a guide how to get rss feeds from playlists is posted....

Tue Jul 16, 2013 10:37 am

AF wrote:=D I will try and update the feeds this evening, and all will be fully automated and honky dory again

Hooray, all problems seem solved and it seems to be going well.
...two weeks pass...
I post a video, nothing on frontpage.
I ask:
Mon Jul 29, 2013 8:49 am

knorke wrote:humpy bumpy
did it work?

Mon Jul 29, 2013

AF wrote:Didnt get round to it, been busy, and my connectivity has been nothing short of pathetic

...Some time passes...
I upload some videos, none show in frontpage. I did not ask about those because waiting for AF to fix his connectivity problem, or whatever.
One day I notice frontpage is (once again) filled with lots of old reposts.
I ask what is happening:
Sat Aug 17, 2013

knorke wrote:Think it is still not quite right: New files on springfiles seem to work but the videos are all reposts from months ago.

Sun Aug 18, 2013

AF wrote:Things aren't quite right because nothing has changed. All I'e done is update WordPress and some plugins.

There was a reason I automated as much as I could and encouraged people to register and set up their own stuff

As it stands people just hurl an incomplete request at me, across several posts, referencing various links and items in threads linked to. Very easy to track and manage when you rarely drop in on the site.

e.g. I'm sure you have more videos than I can find on your spring and zeroK playlists, ( e.g. )and when I tried to add them I got befuddled because I was hunting through my tabs for a ZeroK playlist on your account and did not find one. Then I saw spiderman presents, but then is that a whimsical name for tales of interest? Or is it ZeroK? Or are tales of interest the only ZK videos?

Rather than answer these questions I started work on client work that paid actual cash and more productive research.

Nice that AF enjoys my other videos as well, but I never asked to look through my youtube for them.
Remember that there are already two spring-playlists, the links had been posted twice now. If AF still has to "hunt for the zeroK playlist" then that is simply bad organization on his part.

...I explain the above and link to the playlists again...
After one month passes without reply I figure: "well, I was told with links/rss of playlists everything would be automatic, but maybe let's try to register and this site then"...
It does not work:
Tue Sep 24, 2013

knorke wrote:I wanted to make an information news about server going up and down.
Tried to log in here: http://www.springinfo.info/wp-login.php and got this message:

ERROR: Too many failed login attempts. Please try again in 512 hours.

on first login attempt.

Wed Sep 25, 2013
All that AF answers to that:

AF wrote:The site is very secure

...some months pass without any posts or anything happening...
As a "bump" I make another joke-site and post it:
Mon Nov 04, 2013

knorke wrote:After the smashing success of http://commanderlookingatthings.tumblr.com/ I created a new interblog:
http://nanoseatingtheirfactory.tumblr.com
Please update your hashtags accordingly.

AF trolls me back by actually adding it to the news
Tue Nov 19, 2013

AF wrote:

AF wrote:Added

...Some months pass...
...Year 2014 begins...
My youtube is still not added. Frontpage flooded a few times by old news.
In reference to last post in thread with above picture I post:

knorke wrote:As the blue commander is pointing out, it is annoying if the frontpage gets swamped by tons of old news. For example now again, and many links do not even work anymore.

AF wrote:I am aware of the problem, have been for a while, sadly, I haven't the time to fix it.

...time passes...
In Mar, 2014: AF posts about changes to the site like a "review-queue" and "a tumblr has been added."
The discussion turns to other topics and adding my youtube-playlists (as well playlists of other users) seems to be forgotten.

I figure: Well, maybe if it is not possible to automatically have my videos posted, maybe I will have to do it myself, via this new stuff that is on springinfo.
Sadly it does not work.
Tue Apr 01, 2014

knorke wrote:After submitting a post:

Warning: extract() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/alantaifirestar/springinfo.info/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 216

Tue Apr 01, 2014

AF wrote:hmmm, investigating
...
I'm also waiting on proper fixes to my macbook so I can upgrade the automation to a newer version without causing duplication. Once that's done I have several feeds to add from youtube, including the evo channel, knorkes playlists, and some others

AF is "investigating."
I do not post again about youtube because his computer-problems seem still not fixed.

...nothing happens for some time...
One day a random selection of my videos appears on frontpage.
The videos are months/year old at this point and some are not relevant anymore. (For example zero-K balance changed and so things seen in videos, like EMP-drone-rush, do not work anymore)
Some of the posted videos were videos for bug-reports etc, those were of course not in the playlist and of course not meant to be seen outside mantis or the bug-forum.
So someone must have posted them manually.

Fri Apr 11, 2014

knorke wrote:

AF wrote:I'd also like to again reiterate that people should sign up, even if they never intend to login, else everything they do gets attributed to myself. Apparently I'm extremely active in the community, my output is greater than everyone elses combined

You do not have to post my videos by yourself, several days late. Either automatic and instantly, like it is happening for other youtube accounts, or not at all.

Fri Apr 11, 2014

AF wrote:Better late than never, currently missing attribution to yourself.

I'm not in a good position to add feeds at the moment, as new stuff is brought in and published at the time they're brought in, not the time they're published. So adding your other playlists would mean the entire news feed would be knorke youtube videos, which I don't consider to be optimal. Upgrading to the version of the automation that fixes that bug leads to duplication issues.

I can fix these issues but my primary machine is out of action and being repaired, a combination of faults, + faulty replacement parts has meant I won't have it back till next week. This windows machine is a nightmare as git clones etc fail 70% of the time, no reason indicated

AF still has computer problems. A new reason is given why my playlists are not added: "the entire news feed would be knorke youtube videos".


Sat Apr 12, 2014

AF wrote:I'm adding placeholder accounts for people so their stuff is pulled in as theirs.

If like knorke you're unhappy with how your own feed is pulled in, you could claim said account and ammend your own feeds to have different URLs, prefixes, etc

In the meantime, there's now author archives, e.g.

http://www.springinfo.info/author/knorke/

So now have to login and claim some accounts or something. It is already looking much more complicated then at the beginning, when suppossedly all that was needed were playlists.

Since noting came out of the playlists-automatisation-thing, I try to claim my account.
But springinfo does not seem to have an login-field. I ask:
Sat Apr 12, 2014

knorke wrote:http://www.springinfo.info/author/knorke/

How to do this? I can not even find the login field or something.[/quote]

...
AF posts a bugtracker:
Sat Apr 12, 2014

AF wrote:Issues and requests for Springinfo now go here:

https://github.com/Tarendai/springinfo/issues
...

There is already an entry about me.
It reads:

github issue wrote:-Find the playlists
-Figure out what the RSS feeds for them would be
-Add them to site

But wait: Were the playlists not already posted?
Was there not already posted a way how to get RSS feeds for playlists?

Apr 21 2014
I post all that again on the github issue.

...3 weeks pass...
Aug 1
[quote="knorke on github issue]bump?[/quote]

Tue Aug 05 2014

AF wrote: it took 5 tabs of webpages to do just 1 feed

AF complains that it took 5 tabs of webpages to add 1 feed. Not sure what to make of that?
Every male poweruser opens more tabs lefthanded when spending some quality alone-time.
I find it a bit sarcastic refusing to add playlists of users just because opening 5 tabs is too much work, or how is that to be understood?
My own videos are pretty quickly done but other people spent hours or days on videos or game-trailers, or spent lots of time on the content that the video shows. Or they spent hours commentating matches/tourneys. And then for years this content is not added because clicking around in a few tabs is too much hassle?

Sun Sep 07 2014

AF wrote:...
The time I did have adding things however was spent arguing with Knorke in this thread. I still haven't been given an RSS feed, after all this time. All it's managed is to sap all energy out of the project, and confuse the hell out of me every time I try and revisit it. If i had just been given an RSS feed to begin with all of this would have been done a very, very long time ago.

All energy was spent for adding a total of zero playlists. AF asked for playlists, he got them. (even if he forgot that a few times. )
AF seemed satisfied when the playlist-to-RSS guide was posted, so I am not sure why he did not just try it after his computer problems were fixed. Might add that all one needs to do is basically copying a part of the URL: That seems so trivial it never occured to me that this might be a problem.

AF wrote:Thus, all new requests for additional feeds are to use the additional feed form I added.

I have no idea where this "additional feed form" might be or even how to log into http://www.springinfo.info/wp-login.php