remontoire
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Seems to have quietly died. ..
I would have gone ahead and build something new but I feel an ethical conflict in scraping all the data to do so... at least as a starting point.
I don't see why you would need to scrap the data.
Scrape not scrap. In other words.. collecting the data from entropedia.
Over the last few weeks.. ive had discussions with the EL developers. I had some discussions with entropialife and I am going to go ahead and build out what I had planned. System was already built.. just needs rebranded. ELife and the new system will work together to improve both sides and ensure data integrity. No ETA for this but I'll open up an alpha version to a select few when that time comes.
While it isn't what you were completely getting at, the intent was to open web services for others to "hook" into and I intend to leverage entropialife for some other features such as handling new items, etc. Those are yet to be discussed.
What has happened with entropedia wouldn't happen with whatever I develop. I've already built the system, just need to rebrand. I dont want to get into it right now since I am not there yet in the design process. Over the next couple of weeks, I will start getting feedback from select folks before doing more of an open beta. It definitely will be a phased release... there is a LOT of content.
While it isn't what you were completely getting at, the intent was to open web services for others to "hook" into and I intend to leverage entropialife for some other features such as handling new items, etc. Those are yet to be discussed.
What has happened with entropedia wouldn't happen with whatever I develop. I've already built the system, just need to rebrand. I dont want to get into it right now since I am not there yet in the design process. Over the next couple of weeks, I will start getting feedback from select folks before doing more of an open beta. It definitely will be a phased release... there is a LOT of content.
Easy there. Our discussions were a month ago and since then there have been no updates or messages to the community as to the status. For what anyone knew, it could have been abandoned.
You don't have enough knowledge about what I have already to say it isn't the best fit. It definitely wasn't something quick. It just happens I had done something very similar before.
Either way, if you're about to do the version then communicate with your player base and I won't proceed for now. No need to duplicate work.
Kris, I appreciate you wanting to develop a new version, but is there any chance you could spend just a little time fixing the most vexing of the bugs on the site, so that users can continue to collect and update the data?
Doer kindly started collecting a list of them here:
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?261809-Entropedia-bug-list
The fact that you have something that just needs a rebrand doesn't make it the best fit, just doing something quick just so that it works is not the best approach here whether some people agree with me or not.
If different people are just going to try and make multiple versions of entropedia just because they feel like it,
Well that isn't going to help the community...
I took over this project because i am a full time developer, work for my self, have the time for it, the skills and mostly because i'm not spending my time anymore playing the game.
The reason i haven't posted is because i am working on the first version, and as a habit i prefer delivering rather than just talking.