How I find new groups · 10:42am Nov 23rd, 2014
I’ve just been PM-ed the following question:
how do you find all the new groups for your group?
Short answer:
It’s easy.
New groups get the next Id number, so you can always know what URL the next formed group will have. You just increase the ID number of the last new group by 1.
http:// www.fimfiction.net/group/205258
[base of URL + ID number, unique to the group]
Higher ID numbers will be reserved for newer groups. All you need to do is check, from time to time, if a group with higher ID number was formed yet. I’m lazy, so I only do that once a week. (Edit: I hope somepony will step forward and do this task on a daily basis.)
Long answer:
It's complicated.
I get the ID from the last new group:
Then I use my program that I wrote just for this purpose.
The program opens new groups in a sequence upon cancellation of my browser process or a change to my local clipboard.
If the clipboard is changed, the program assumes it to be the name of the group with the ID that it opened most recently, and automatically creates a formatted link for posting in New Groups, while opening the next group with incremented ID number.
If you want, you can get my program —> here <—. In case you also want the code for it, you can find it —> here <—.
Let me know in the comments if you have any more questions about finding new groups.
When did you become such a genius, and I swear the Bad Dragon adverts are gone..?
2611699 My code is messy. I hope no real programmer reads it.
You're right about the ads. We'll have to put our campaign for Bad Dragon ads into overdrive!
2611701 I'm sure it is but your still better than most people who aren't programmers, right..?
Maybe.
2611704 I'm an okay programmer in VB.net. Everything else is, more or less, an enigma for me.
I've already changed the description of Bad Dragon ads to match our new goal.
2611756 We programmers have a tendency to use a computer. Using a computer on a regular basis has a tendency of introducing one to MLP. MLP has a tendency to addict a person. Addicts tend to crave for more, so they stay. That's my theory at least.