what if there be NG Chat logger

[Filarius]

Not so about just "what if".
To have fun with my programming skills I already did it for web.
It is not for spying or etc. I did it just for poking programming language what I did not use before.
Many chats have logs, so "why not".

What do you think - is it good idea or you strongly agains it, did I must improve it or just trash it.
http://greyed.ru/ngcl/

[tox]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgpRKQL1nEQ

[Filarius]

At 5/6/13 03:24 AM, tox wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgpRKQL1nEQ

Thats for you tolerance to foreign people.

[Gimmick]

it doesn't load...

[ImlunchBoxx]

At 5/6/13 04:12 AM, Gimmick wrote: it doesn't load...

well poop in a shoe it looks like your in some shit

[Filarius]

OK, it maybe my hoster problem.
Or you use DNS server what did not know this website address.

so here is copy
archive for 2013-05-05

I will try look whats wrone.

[Nebula]

At 5/6/13 03:24 AM, tox wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgpRKQL1nEQ

Just so you know, the OP is Russian. So forgive him.

[Cyberdevil]

This is pretty neat! Is the log generated by a program or a web-based script? If it doesn't hog resources, I can imagine a chat archive would be a fun thing to have. One useful feature though would be saving logs as plain text, that would save a lot of space in the long run.

[BumFodder]

What would be the point of that?

[FattyWhale]

Seems like it logs the same entries twice sometimes.

[Filarius]

At 5/6/13 07:21 AM, Cyberdevil wrote: This is pretty neat! Is the log generated by a program or a web-based script? If it doesn't hog resources, I can imagine a chat archive would be a fun thing to have. One useful feature though would be saving logs as plain text, that would save a lot of space in the long run.

Well, all code is a PHP script, suddenly used another server to call script every 2 seconds, shared hosting not allow to do this with help from outside.
For future I have 2 thoughts:
- log as flat text, just date-time : nickname : message. It save space and it is universal type of logs
- log as is, it will allow use formatting to html, make logs look like native chat (colors, user-icons). But it need a little more space, script for render logs, harder to share.

At 5/6/13 08:51 AM, FattyWhale wrote: Seems like it logs the same entries twice sometimes.

Yeh, I think I know why it is so, I wish I can fix it.

[Cyberdevil]

At 5/6/13 09:41 AM, Filarius wrote: Well, all code is a PHP script, suddenly used another server to call script every 2 seconds, shared hosting not allow to do this with help from outside.

Two seconds is pretty often! Does it pick up only new messages in each run, or go through all of them again? I'd think you could pick up all new messages with a larger interval, something like 8 seconds? Maybe automatically fall back to a lower frequency when there aren't many users active? That would save a lot of bandwidth.

If you're looking for a place to run the script, a budget VPS would probably be a good alternative. If you know your way around Linux you can find low-end providers offering unmanaged space for less than $12/year.

For future I have 2 thoughts:
- log as flat text, just date-time : nickname : message. It save space and it is universal type of logs
- log as is, it will allow use formatting to html, make logs look like native chat (colors, user-icons). But it need a little more space, script for render logs, harder to share.

Sounds good! Looking forward to seeing how this turns out.

[Filarius]

At 5/6/13 10:01 AM, Cyberdevil wrote:
Two seconds is pretty often!

It is normal, if not even slow. NG send only last 20 messages, and in 8 seconds then there talk many people at same time I can miss some of messages.
NG Chat checks for messages every 1 second and always send all 20 last messages, so there is no way to save bandwidth.
I already have server used for radio (btw tired to search somebody who will be interested to use it, now just stream some shit to Team Fortress servers).

[Cyberdevil]

At 5/6/13 10:33 AM, Filarius wrote: It is normal, if not even slow. NG send only last 20 messages, and in 8 seconds then there talk many people at same time I can miss some of messages.
NG Chat checks for messages every 1 second and always send all 20 last messages, so there is no way to save bandwidth.
I already have server used for radio (btw tired to search somebody who will be interested to use it, now just stream some shit to Team Fortress servers).

Ah, so that's the limitation. Good to know. So you have a server this script is allowed to run on? How are logs saved btw, as one file? Divided up in day/month/year?

This would be fun to run on special occasions like the Pico Day live stream too.

[Filarius]

At 5/6/13 10:42 AM, Cyberdevil wrote:
Ah, so that's the limitation. Good to know. So you have a server this script is allowed to run on? How are logs saved btw, as one file? Divided up in day/month/year?

This would be fun to run on special occasions like the Pico Day live stream too.

I can say more - it is Windows VPS, maybe it cost a little more then Linux, but I find most cheapest server what fit my needs - have exactly so CPU to allow live mp3 encoding in one thread, and used only for encoding, no hosting or etc staff. PHP script hosted on separate place.
Now it is exactly as at sample i posted here some time ago - script same in one folder to files with names like (year-month-day).

[Filarius]

Lets try again, not link is
http://www.greyed.ru/ngcl/
Pls say if it not work for you

[buk-lau]

Not a big deal for me, But the good computer programming. You has worked hard. good job.

[Filarius]

I did some changes in logs.
Now it is simple text.
Added some things like hyperlink conversion to text and processing of multyline messages. I`m not so sure if allowing multiline messages be also multiline in logs - it`s break beauty of logs sctructure, but makes it a little more readable, in some kind.

[Boomstick]

At 5/6/13 03:24 AM, tox wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgpRKQL1nEQ

Nice job, I'm pretty sure you make beautifully coherent sentences.

[BasedBubbus]

i feel bad for anyone that reads the ng chat log

[Filarius]

At 5/8/13 06:16 PM, BasedBubbus wrote: i feel bad for anyone that reads the ng chat log

It will be very interested to know what makes you think so.

[supergandhi64]

i'm glad all my funny new grounds chat jokes are preserved for future generations

--supergandhi64

[Dragen]

The word "fuck" occurs 170 times in one day.

[mandog]

Reminds me of all the reasons I never want to step a foot into that shit.

[Dragen]

I think it is a convenient feature.. Any update on it, Filarius?

[Filarius]

At 2/4/14 03:57 PM, Dragen wrote: I think it is a convenient feature.. Any update on it, Filarius?

Nothing much. I`m so noob at Javascript and web-design to make something better.
Where was few fixes, one about better and faster file list, another - in setting to ask search engine bots do not go in logs (after I was asked for it). Changed hosting to little bigger, so now u can see more logs.