:edit: May 20
The Problem: The 'Import from Barter.vg' and 'Compare with Barter.vg' buttons are no longer working.
The Reason: This is due to Barter.vg's admin banning the Lestrades.com server from downloading any data.
Officially it's because LT has been 'abusing' its resources[1], but once again I'm not sure what to think, since he is no longer replying to my messages.
Possible Solutions:
- I can always replace the Barter scraper with a combination of SteamSpy & Steam scraper, *but* user list syncing is more problematic. As of now I can no longer import and compare lists from Barter.
- I could potentially write a user script (for Firefox and Chromium-based) to retrieve new Barter games and compare user lists. It would be *much* less user-friendly than the current solution, though, as it requires extra steps (as well as installing a new add-on).
Thoughts? I don't know if it's a coincidence that this comes just a few days after I finished the mass list edit feature and officially called the trading system 'on feature parity with Barter'. It was already a strange coincidence that the Barter admin came back to life the day after Lestrade's launched its trading system in the first place. The more coincidences happen, the less likely they were to be coincidences in the first place. Still, I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt for now, but I needed to write this post to make it clear that I'm not responsible for the current ban, since I did everything that was asked of me.
The Problem: The 'Import from Barter.vg' and 'Compare with Barter.vg' buttons are no longer working.
The Reason: This is due to Barter.vg's admin banning the Lestrades.com server from downloading any data.
Officially it's because LT has been 'abusing' its resources[1], but once again I'm not sure what to think, since he is no longer replying to my messages.
Possible Solutions:
- I can always replace the Barter scraper with a combination of SteamSpy & Steam scraper, *but* user list syncing is more problematic. As of now I can no longer import and compare lists from Barter.
- I could potentially write a user script (for Firefox and Chromium-based) to retrieve new Barter games and compare user lists. It would be *much* less user-friendly than the current solution, though, as it requires extra steps (as well as installing a new add-on).
Thoughts? I don't know if it's a coincidence that this comes just a few days after I finished the mass list edit feature and officially called the trading system 'on feature parity with Barter'. It was already a strange coincidence that the Barter admin came back to life the day after Lestrade's launched its trading system in the first place. The more coincidences happen, the less likely they were to be coincidences in the first place. Still, I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt for now, but I needed to write this post to make it clear that I'm not responsible for the current ban, since I did everything that was asked of me.
1. | Even though it's been scraping BVG for nearly a year now, and I completely disabled the game updater on May 19, which was a step further from his request to reduce my hit rate. |