ocular - scratch forum info

Jeffalo

nothing to see here.

Last edited by Jeffalo (Jan. 5, 2024 16:18:18)

mybearworld

Jeffalo wrote:
(#3643)
nothing to see here.

what the-
how did you do that

Jeffalo

ocular will be down for a few hours. lefty is working on scratchdb.

INSERT-USER_NAME

mybearworld wrote:
Jeffalo wrote:
(#3643)
nothing to see here.
what the-
how did you do that

What did they do?

Zydrolic

INSERT-USER_NAME wrote:
(#3646)
What did they do?

not mentionable
lets just say that is now between him (jeffalo) and contact us probably
i think

Last edited by Zydrolic (Jan. 21, 2024 20:10:16)

INSERT-USER_NAME

Does anyone know when scratchDB will be back up?

Zydrolic wrote:
INSERT-USER_NAME wrote:
(#3646)
What did they do?
not mentionable
lets just say that is now between him (jeffalo) and contact us probably
i think

Maybe you could explain what the effect was?

mybearworld

INSERT-USER_NAME wrote:
(#3646)
What did they do?

Everything was embedded in their post, including things like the new post controls. It's probably something with unicode characters outside u+ffff, but that normally doesn't have that kind of effect

ISTILLMAKESTUFF

Jeffalo wrote:
ocular will be down for a few hours. lefty is working on scratchdb.

Somebody rich here should get a good server and host it so that it actually works >50% of the time.

Speaking of, lefty should start chargin or ads.

LegoManiac04

ISTILLMAKESTUFF wrote:
Jeffalo wrote:
ocular will be down for a few hours. lefty is working on scratchdb.
Somebody rich here should get a good server and host it so that it actually works >50% of the time.

Speaking of, lefty should start chargin or ads.

To be fair this isn't bad for a free, self-hosted service that, honestly, works quite well most of the time (it's been working especially well in past few months too imo). I know ScratchDB uses a heck-ton of storage to store all this data, so the fact that it is being hosted for free courtesy of lefty is pretty amazing. With that, I don't think it's fair to complain, even if our projects break time-to-time when downtime happens/is needed.

Also, I fail to see how ads would work for a service that has no front-end beyond the docs

Last edited by LegoManiac04 (Jan. 23, 2024 01:59:44)

ISTILLMAKESTUFF

LegoManiac04 wrote:
Also, I fail to see how ads would work for a service that has no front-end beyond the docs

Google ads buddy

Jeffalo

ISTILLMAKESTUFF wrote:
LegoManiac04 wrote:
Also, I fail to see how ads would work for a service that has no front-end beyond the docs
Google ads buddy

… where do the ads go?

floppasyay

Jeffalo wrote:
ISTILLMAKESTUFF wrote:
LegoManiac04 wrote:
Also, I fail to see how ads would work for a service that has no front-end beyond the docs
Google ads buddy
… where do the ads go?

I haven't went on Ocular on PC for a long time but, maybe you can put it on the sides of the posts, like other websites that don't exactly fit / use up all the space of their content.

davidtheplatform

I was looking at posts with ocular and randomly two of them had the username “PPPDUDjawu11ssfusdeduPPPDUDAntonL1kesPotatojawu11ssfusdeduIceCreamTubjawu11ssfusdedu”
Its the following usernames appended multiple times (all of them exist and have posted on the forums):
PPPDUD
jawu11ssfusdedu
AntonL1kesPotato
IceCreamTub

Also the profile picture was the default one for the two posts.

CST1229

davidtheplatform wrote:
(#3655)
I was looking at posts with ocular and randomly two of them had the username “PPPDUDjawu11ssfusdeduPPPDUDAntonL1kesPotatojawu11ssfusdeduIceCreamTubjawu11ssfusdedu”
Its the following usernames appended multiple times (all of them exist and have posted on the forums):
PPPDUD
jawu11ssfusdedu
AntonL1kesPotato
IceCreamTub

Also the profile picture was the default one for the two posts.

I think this is a ScratchDB bug that happens if someone does a certain glitch that semi-breaks the forum layout (not sure if it works nowadays, but it did a while ago before the forums maintenance).

Last edited by CST1229 (Feb. 3, 2024 19:21:23)

davidtheplatform

CST1229 wrote:
davidtheplatform wrote:
(#3655)
I was looking at posts with ocular and randomly two of them had the username “PPPDUDjawu11ssfusdeduPPPDUDAntonL1kesPotatojawu11ssfusdeduIceCreamTubjawu11ssfusdedu”
Its the following usernames appended multiple times (all of them exist and have posted on the forums):
PPPDUD
jawu11ssfusdedu
AntonL1kesPotato
IceCreamTub

Also the profile picture was the default one for the two posts.
I think this is a ScratchDB bug that happens if someone does a certain glitch that semi-breaks the forum layout (not sure if it works nowadays, but it did a while ago before the forums maintenance).

That makes sense, the usernames are other people in the thread.

ISTILLMAKESTUFF

Jeffalo wrote:
ISTILLMAKESTUFF wrote:
LegoManiac04 wrote:
Also, I fail to see how ads would work for a service that has no front-end beyond the docs
Google ads buddy
… where do the ads go?

On the websites buddy,

where everybody can see them, or where nobody can see them, buddy

davidtheplatform

ISTILLMAKESTUFF wrote:
Jeffalo wrote:
ISTILLMAKESTUFF wrote:
LegoManiac04 wrote:
Also, I fail to see how ads would work for a service that has no front-end beyond the docs
Google ads buddy
… where do the ads go?
On the websites buddy,

where everybody can see them, or where nobody can see them, buddy

99% of scratchDB visits are to the api. You can't really put ads there.

ISTILLMAKESTUFF

davidtheplatform wrote:
ISTILLMAKESTUFF wrote:
Jeffalo wrote:
ISTILLMAKESTUFF wrote:
LegoManiac04 wrote:
Also, I fail to see how ads would work for a service that has no front-end beyond the docs
Google ads buddy
… where do the ads go?
On the websites buddy,

where everybody can see them, or where nobody can see them, buddy
99% of scratchDB visits are to the api. You can't really put ads there.

Why not? that 1% is website

davidtheplatform

ISTILLMAKESTUFF wrote:
davidtheplatform wrote:
ISTILLMAKESTUFF wrote:
Jeffalo wrote:
ISTILLMAKESTUFF wrote:
LegoManiac04 wrote:
Also, I fail to see how ads would work for a service that has no front-end beyond the docs
Google ads buddy
… where do the ads go?
On the websites buddy,

where everybody can see them, or where nobody can see them, buddy
99% of scratchDB visits are to the api. You can't really put ads there.
Why not? that 1% is website

1. 99% is probably too low. I wouldn't be suprised if it was 99.99% (1 in 10,000 requests)
2. 1 page of ads would have to pay for 100-10,000 requests. Google estimates 1 cent per page view (probably with multiple ads per page), so each API call would have to cost less than 0.01 cents (but probably less than 0.0001 cents).

Mahdir2111

Ocular is not working, since scratchdb is down

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