I have resolved the bugs that was blocking this and the bots are now running.

Network Submissions should work now.
The bots will crawl at their respective rotations (right now 4 hours for each network).

The admin check bot is not entirely complete, but will be shortly.

Now all we need is networks.

by Daniel Shafer, 2 years, 5 months ago

It’s been a few weeks since I launched “Beta 1” and felt an update.

The indexer bot is almost complete, I’ve literally got 1 major bug I am trying to fix, plus a few things to add, before launching them entirely.

Technically all of the bots are rolled into one script using Python/Twisted. I’ve automated the entire system on a push based method.

Here is some details of the bots

PreSignup Bot

This is the bot that will verify your network meets our minimum requirements.

Steps Taken
1. User submits a network to the network submission page
2. Literally as soon as the form is submitted a bot is dispatched to the network to check for a few things:
* NETWORK token matches network name
* There are 5 or more users on the network
* There is at least 1 channel on the network with 2 users.
3. Once …

by Daniel Shafer, 2 years, 5 months ago