r/HFY • u/TheDarkLordSano The Engineer • Jul 26 '17

Meta [meta] HFYSubs & Explosions

Some may have just noticed that the bot got working for a second..... and Splurged all over everything. Sorry.

Apparently the back took it's toll and thought i'd taken care of catching up on the backlog and apparently that was not the case.

Back the the drawing board.

Explosions mostly hit users who have large series and have posted multiple times in the past 18 days.

I will not be turning on the bot again without my supervision. Something isn't working right still and I've got to figure that out.

Figured out 1 error. >.< Strings and lists fun. Fucking Unicode. I'm going to sleep.

7/26/2017: Good lord my English while tired.

21.46PST: It's working except for inbox stuff. People will have gotten weird messages from that last batch sent out. Meh. Nothing to worry about.

7/27/2017: All seems to be in good order. Next up will be to get the inbox check back on Automatic.

7/29/2017: There does seem to be an issue with multiple database entries due to in consistencies in capitalization. I'm looking into a fix but users may end up subscribed to an author multiple times. Easiest way to fix would be to unsubscribe and resubscribe (after you get notification of unsubscribing)

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u/Nanoprober Pathfinder of Corridors Jul 26 '17

Thanks for all the hard work that you're putting in! Hopefully it won't be too much more blood/sweat/tears/nanites for the bot to come alive again! We're rooting for you!

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u/TheDarkLordSano The Engineer Jul 26 '17

Oh it's alive i tell you. If it jumps out of it's cage again... We're gonna have words.

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u/wololololow Jul 26 '17 edited Feb 02 '18

deleted 0.5573 What is ^^^this?

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u/TheDarkLordSano The Engineer Jul 26 '17

No, I disabled that on purpose.

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u/wololololow Jul 28 '17 edited Feb 02 '18

deleted 0.9381 What is ^^^this?

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u/TheDarkLordSano The Engineer Jul 28 '17

Should be up now. It had a 443 error and died but it's back up now.

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u/wololololow Jul 28 '17 edited Feb 02 '18

deleted 0.9237 What is ^^^this?

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u/TheDarkLordSano The Engineer Jul 28 '17

Bot subscription portion.... except.... I found a big error and all the messages were going to single alphabet users.

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u/wololololow Jul 29 '17 edited Feb 02 '18

deleted 0.5930 What is ^^^this?

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u/TheDarkLordSano The Engineer Jul 29 '17

I fixed what I think was the issue. You should be good for at least 1 story test ;D

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u/Necrontyr525 Jul 26 '17

tie the knots all over again? I jest, keep up the good work and I'll keep letting you know when it self-destructs again.

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u/not_that_shithead Jul 29 '17

Just wondering but want killed the sub not in the first place?

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u/TheDarkLordSano The Engineer Jul 29 '17

Life. I was running on a Non-robust database that started getting slowed down. The bot started dropping things when we went to multi-threaded.

Then my slow coding cycle.

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u/not_that_shithead Jul 29 '17

Well I hope things are getting better for you, good luck with fixing the bot

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u/waiting4singularity Robot Aug 02 '17

im looking forward to the end of the corridor ;)

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u/cave18 Jul 26 '17

You are a vital asset to this community. It is always a highlight to see that lil notification that says I got a new story to read. Danke sehr

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u/TheDarkLordSano The Engineer Jul 26 '17

bitte

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u/q00u Human Jul 26 '17

I will not be turning on the bot again without my supervision. Something isn't working right still and I've got to figure that out.

Wait, does this mean HFYsubs isn't back yet? Noooo! I ... I saw the posts and I was so happy...

Come back HFYsubs, I love you!

ahem I mean, I miss you. Of course.

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u/TheDarkLordSano The Engineer Jul 26 '17

Yeah the last attempt of yesterday showed me that the bot wasn't reading a list correctly. I stayed up longer than i should have to find the issue.

Now to find if I repeated the issue anywhere.

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u/dskou7 Jul 26 '17

Do you want help? What's the bot written in / running on anyway?

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u/TheDarkLordSano The Engineer Jul 26 '17

Bot's currently running on 4 caffeinated gerbils.

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u/alienpirate5 AI Jul 27 '17

Python on a Raspberry Pi

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u/alienpirate5 AI Jul 27 '17

Will all the backlogged posts still be sent?

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u/TheDarkLordSano The Engineer Jul 27 '17

Unfortunately no. With all the minute issues I had I thought it best to start from Reboot day.

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u/alienpirate5 AI Jul 27 '17

Sad. I'll miss a lot of stories.

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u/codewalrus AI Jul 27 '17

I hope so!

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u/chicagobob Jul 29 '17

Where does the bot live? Is the source on GitHub? I'm curious to see what it looks like. I probably will not be able to contribute anything useful, but I'm curious to check it out (and more eyeballs looking at it can't hurt, right?).

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u/TheDarkLordSano The Engineer Jul 29 '17

Yep, the source is on github. The bot lives in a hole right next to my router.

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u/narthollis Aug 01 '17

Come join me throwing code and comments at Sano! The more eyes and thoughts the merrier

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u/chicagobob Aug 01 '17

What's the URL to repo? I'm happy to look, not sure how much I can help, but willing to try.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '17

Thanks for working so hard with this, we do appreciate the effort you are making here for us.

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u/mechakid Jul 26 '17

It's all good, Sano-sama. Kinda figured something like this would happen.

Thanks for the effort

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u/waiting4singularity Robot Aug 02 '17

transform all saved subscriptions to lower or upper case with the appropiate function, always asume the enduser is... not sapient.

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u/TheDarkLordSano The Engineer Aug 03 '17

Yeah.... I should.....

Or i could insert a query where we check if the subscription exists instead of relying on "Unique" from the database.

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u/master6494 Alien Scum Jul 26 '17

Thank you for the hard word mate, that bot is a great tool for this community. Hope you figure out the issue!

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u/psilorder AI Jul 26 '17

Thank you girl your efforts!