I want to make a notif system that notifs me when my username is mentioned on the forums. U can use ocular to find posts with your username but is their a way to detect change in scratchDb or another way to do it

Just saying, in order to do that, you'd have to fetch thousands of topics every 30 seconds. Since you're wanting notifications, scratchdb would not work, since it uses cached data. Basically, short of having a bot account that is following every single topic, you couldn't even get the data fast enough. However, good luck figuring it out! It'd be better to try to get the admins to add notifications for forum mentions. Also, if you get the data, just use `“post”.includes(“@yourusername”)` to detect mentions.

9pfs wrote:

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Just saying, in order to do that, you'd have to fetch thousands of topics every 30 seconds. Since you're wanting notifications, scratchdb would not work, since it uses cached data. Basically, short of having a bot account that is following every single topic, you couldn't even get the data fast enough. However, good luck figuring it out! It'd be better to try to get the admins to add notifications for forum mentions. Also, if you get the data, just use `“post”.includes(“@yourusername”)` to detect mentions.

I mean notifs OFF SCRATCH

You could have a script which searches in Ocular/ScratchDB every hour for your username newest-first.

If post IDs go up in order you could just record one as a starting point, every 30 seconds you could check to see if the post ID + 1 exists. If it does increment the ID and search the post for your username, if you find it, send a notification.

-EmeraldThunder- wrote:

If post IDs go up in order you could just record one as a starting point, every 30 seconds you could check to see if the post ID + 1 exists. If it does increment the ID and search the post for your username, if you find it, send a notification.

That's a pretty good idea - but looking at how active the forums are these days, you'd probably have to check lots of posts after 30 seconds… making it for a specific subforum would make it a bit easier…

Chiroyce wrote:

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-EmeraldThunder- wrote:

If post IDs go up in order you could just record one as a starting point, every 30 seconds you could check to see if the post ID + 1 exists. If it does increment the ID and search the post for your username, if you find it, send a notification.

That's a pretty good idea - but looking at how active the forums are these days, you'd probably have to check lots of posts after 30 seconds… making it for a specific subforum would make it a bit easier…

I was thinking collabaration and suggestions

That sounds like a cool idea, although because of limitations, it might not be possible through CLI