Bingo Card Generator Down
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allbingoEDIT 9/2/18: It seems to be back up. \o/
The Bingo Card Generator is down. It was fine last night when I made the Cottoncandy public card and my personal card. I tried sending a message tomagibrain but I don't know if he's still on Dreamwidth. Does anyone else have recent contact info?
In case the site cannot be retrieved, I have some prompt lists saved, though nowhere near all of them. Others may be excavated from posts or other people's files. Does anyone have the coding ability to write a similar generator? Because running this site without that would be really hard. It was the one thing that gave us a tremendous advantage over individually themed bingo communities -- we didn't have to hand-make every card, and we had a ton of saved prompt lists that anyone could use.
The Bingo Card Generator is down. It was fine last night when I made the Cottoncandy public card and my personal card. I tried sending a message to
magibrain but I don't know if he's still on Dreamwidth. Does anyone else have recent contact info?In case the site cannot be retrieved, I have some prompt lists saved, though nowhere near all of them. Others may be excavated from posts or other people's files. Does anyone have the coding ability to write a similar generator? Because running this site without that would be really hard. It was the one thing that gave us a tremendous advantage over individually themed bingo communities -- we didn't have to hand-make every card, and we had a ton of saved prompt lists that anyone could use.
Wayback machine?
Date: 2018-09-02 05:13 am (UTC)BETTER would be to have magibrain's permission to import the script to a new hosting page.
Re: Wayback machine?
Date: 2018-09-02 05:55 am (UTC)The site comes up but the script won't run. All we have there is an image of what the operating screen looked like and the names of the prompt lists. Better than nothing.
>> BETTER would be to have magibrain's permission to import the script to a new hosting page. <<
I agree. I haven't heard back though. If anyone else can reach Magibrain by all means please do so.
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Date: 2018-09-02 05:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-09-02 06:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-09-02 10:27 am (UTC)It's here: http://www.dennis-sellers.com/play/scripts/prompt_scripts/ (though I think you already have it listed somewhere).
Thank you!
Date: 2018-09-02 10:46 am (UTC)Okay, here is the Wayback Machine's copy of Magibrain's Bingo Card Generator:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180302161652/http://an.owomoyela.net/fun/bingo_generator
Can you make toggles? Looking at your menu, it seems like that would condense things a lot.
As you predicted, the first need is a blank box to input lists.
Next is the menu of prompt lists. I would like to reconstruct ours as much as possible. You already have a great set of lists, though, so it's not a disaster if we can't get them all back.
Consider also size of list. To make a 5x5 card with no repeats from one list, the list needs at least 24 prompts. Looking at yours, they're often 21. Some of ours, like Cottoncandy, have many dozens of prompts. That's good for variety, so people can play the same list repeatedly without getting all the same prompts.
Configuration options:
"Allow repeated values for lists with fewer than 24 items?" would make those shorter lists a great deal more useful.
The original one had options for background, text, and border colors or transparent. I don't see that as a top need, although it's nice if easy to do.
Card size went by squares of 1 through 7. That's super important. Your single-prompt option is basically the 1x1 but other than that it's set on 5x5.
Another toggle for center space went free space, wild card, normal prompt, other. That's extremely useful. It's not quite required. I remember it being a little tricky to code because the process has to automate skipping it for cards that don't have a center (1 and the evens).
One thing we always wanted that didn't quite make it into that generator, that you have a version of, is combining prompts. You've got something very close in "X met Y at Z" (two characters, one location). What I'd love to see is "character + location + (action, object, etc.)" John on the beach running for his life. Mary in a spaceship with a gorilla. We had some prompt lists that would mix great but only if it was possible to insert each one in a specific position. Like types of family, time period, emotions.
If we wind up having to rebuild our generator into yours, I'd be happy to put out a crowdfunding call for you.
Re: Thank you!
Date: 2018-09-02 02:29 pm (UTC)What I'll do to start is look to put my code and lists in a public repository (e.g. GitHub) - that will mean that even if something happens to me you should be able to recover all the lists (and the codebase if you have someone who wants a starting point). Then I'll add all your existing lists from Magibrain to the repository as well. That way you'll have a backup of all the existing data that isn't dependent upon a single person keeping something going - it won't add future lists, but at least it will be a start.
Then I'll start looking into implementing some of the things from your Wishlist above - and figuring out some kind of automated backup process so that prompt lists can't get lost again.
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Date: 2018-09-02 10:46 am (UTC)Hmm ...
Date: 2018-09-02 10:48 am (UTC)We can see the page layout on the Wayback Machine, but it won't run the script.
Being able to see the code would, of course, be useful but I don't know of a way to derive that from a viewable page.
Re: Hmm ...
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Re: Hmm ...
Date: 2018-09-02 11:00 am (UTC)That got me thinking, I just tested it and the generator seems to be working. We should keep an eye on it, but the crisis may be averted.
Re: Hmm ...
Date: 2018-09-02 10:53 am (UTC)Re: Hmm ...
Date: 2018-09-02 11:03 am (UTC)Re: Hmm ...
Date: 2018-09-02 12:11 pm (UTC)Re: Hmm ...
Date: 2018-09-02 06:40 pm (UTC)I'll send you my eddress.
Re: Hmm ...
Date: 2018-09-03 11:03 am (UTC)