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Sous Videodrome
Apr 9, 2020

I was keeping up with all the threads here as the USA dissolves into a gibbering heap and I remembered that I made the CSPAM ticker. It's a website that continuously scrolls the latest posts from CSPAM in real time.

https://www.dead.gay/forums



I put it up a couple months back and it's still running. I made it out of code that I wrote when I made a bot to automatically read and reply to forums posts. My thread about the bot is here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3933008

It's all written in JavaScript. It's an express server that creates server sent events. The frontend subscribes to the SSE. The server reads CSPAM every 15? 30? seconds, grabs the first non-sticky thread. If there's a new post in it it reads the text of the post and sends it as an SSE.

I didn't put too much time into the ticker. Actually most of the time was spent trying to get it hosted and running for free. But now I'm looking at it and I'm thinking it might be neat to add some CSS to make it look better, maybe a dark mode. Add a forum selector or checklist so you can grab posts from more than just one subforum? Maybe make it minimize nicely so it can sit at the bottom of the screen or make it into a browser extension so it can be like an SA chyron while you browse the internet. I might also add a login cookie so it doesn't censor all the swear words.

The git repo is here:
https://github.com/jacobwicks/cspam-ticker

index.ts is a good place to start if you care to look at it. It has the main loop and calls the function to send the event to the ticker.
https://github.com/jacobwicks/cspam-ticker/blob/master/index.ts

Any thoughts? Anyone interested in helping improve the CSS? Also, in terms of job hunting, is this a decent portfolio project? I mean I wouldn't host it on that domain name if I was putting it on a resume but it's interesting enough.

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post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

lol cool

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




well done, OP.

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
hang on i wanna know does this mean there’s a yospos version or not

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


You are providing a valuable service for democracy. god bless.

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD
Jul 7, 2012

yeah i would really like to keep cspam out of my life as much as possible but a yospos version of this would be :discourse:

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


Who do I have to bribe/threaten to get this integrated into the awful app?

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

yeah i would really like to keep cspam out of my life as much as possible

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Sous Videodrome posted:

I was keeping up with all the threads here as the USA dissolves into a gibbering heap and I remembered that I made the CSPAM ticker. It's a website that continuously scrolls the latest posts from CSPAM in real time.

https://www.dead.gay/forums



I put it up a couple months back and it's still running. I made it out of code that I wrote when I made a bot to automatically read and reply to forums posts. My thread about the bot is here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3933008

It's all written in JavaScript. It's an express server that creates server sent events. The frontend subscribes to the SSE. The server reads CSPAM every 15? 30? seconds, grabs the first non-sticky thread. If there's a new post in it it reads the text of the post and sends it as an SSE.

I didn't put too much time into the ticker. Actually most of the time was spent trying to get it hosted and running for free. But now I'm looking at it and I'm thinking it might be neat to add some CSS to make it look better, maybe a dark mode. Add a forum selector or checklist so you can grab posts from more than just one subforum? Maybe make it minimize nicely so it can sit at the bottom of the screen or make it into a browser extension so it can be like an SA chyron while you browse the internet. I might also add a login cookie so it doesn't censor all the swear words.

The git repo is here:
https://github.com/jacobwicks/cspam-ticker

index.ts is a good place to start if you care to look at it. It has the main loop and calls the function to send the event to the ticker.
https://github.com/jacobwicks/cspam-ticker/blob/master/index.ts

Any thoughts? Anyone interested in helping improve the CSS? Also, in terms of job hunting, is this a decent portfolio project? I mean I wouldn't host it on that domain name if I was putting it on a resume but it's interesting enough.

you should sell it to the guy here to makes all the irl stock tickers for nyse

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


Wouldn't that require having a massive ponzi scheme already in progress?

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
it would own to use the same backend but the client be a tmux statusbar thingy. just doomscroll cspam noise on the last line of my terminal all day.

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


I must find a way to put this thing on Times Square, It's the only way forward.

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Jonny 290 posted:

it would own to use the same backend but the client be a tmux statusbar thingy. just doomscroll cspam noise on the last line of my terminal all day.

i cannot allow you to request self-harm lol

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



great, a bunch of poasts from complete maniacs without context

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe

Cat Face Joe posted:

great, a bunch of poasts from complete maniacs without context

I've been in yospos for years lol

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




:newlol:

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Tanners
Dec 13, 2011

woof
This is cool as poo poo. I might be able to pretty it up some.

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