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ciphergoth in trustmetrics

TrustFlow shut down by LiveJournal?

Sep 06, 2003 10:40

I could be wrong, but it looks as if the LiveJournal staff are denying access to LJ data from the server that TrustFlow uses. This will probably be because it was causing undue strain on the LJ servers, but it could be for other reasons ( Read more... )

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naturalborn September 6 2003, 06:52:34 UTC

The latest code I posted would involve considerably less site scraping, so that could help reduce the load.

ruakh September 6 2003, 07:41:56 UTC

(1) If you e-mail webmaster(a)livejournal(o)com, they should be able to help you out. (That opens a support request in the Webmaster category of LiveJournal technical support.) If you've already opened a support request, ignore this point.

(2) My thoughts:
- I think it's unlikely that bradfitz or a LiveJournal employee has blocked your server without telling you. From what I can see, they're generally very sensitive to the needs of small-time coders, and I imagine that if they blocked you, they'd let you know first.
- LJ automatically blocks things that it perceives as a DOS attack; it also blocks excessive attempts at login. Since your server would only check four people at a time, I doubt it could ever look like a DOS attack (though I can't say), and I assume it would never attempt to log in?
- LJ recently changed to a new default site scheme [link]. If your code assumed that pages used the Dystopia scheme, then it probably won't be able to parse through pages using the Xcolibur scheme (this is just a guess on my part). Might this be the ( ... )

ruakh September 6 2003, 07:44:34 UTC

(BTW, I mean "small-time coders" in the sense of coders who aren't running companies with hundreds of thousands of users. I didn't mean that as a comment on your code, or anything like that.)

wechsler September 6 2003, 08:05:32 UTC

I've no idea how ciphergoth's scraper code works, but mine hasn't seemed to have any problems with the transition.

lovewithnoface September 28 2003, 16:29:52 UTC

very nice self-pimpage

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anaithiel September 6 2003, 16:34:40 UTC

dammit!
now how am i took see all of my non-friends?
hehe
thanks for the update though! very thoughtful.

... eboe September 8 2003, 07:45:21 UTC

didn't LJ themselves used ot have a similar feature as a way to locate new friends based upon interests? it seemed to have disappeared...

Re: ... mariner42 September 9 2003, 15:10:51 UTC

Yeah, I really liked that feature...

-MtR

Re: ... lovewithnoface September 28 2003, 16:28:17 UTC

LJ had a feature that allowed you to search for the users most common to you in terms of common interests, not friends ( ... )

Re: ... ciphergoth September 28 2003, 20:42:31 UTC

The difference is that if you were curious enough you could figure out your closest non-friends.

Of course you could - all you'd need to do is run my software!

However I wouldn't encourage that - it could cause real problems for LJ if everyone started doing that. Better to wait until we can get this new protocol in place, and then I'll get the new version of my software (which is much better) in place.

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vogelscheuche September 9 2003, 01:05:57 UTC

Sounds good! I'd like to have it up and running some day! I thought it was very cool!