Whistle Orga

I don't think they realize how much data can be scraped, even if they have some idea of what scraping is. RIOT is intimidatingly ridiculous

refresh

Prelude to TOS text, in bold:


"The technique of harvesting data in this fashion is called scraping. This is a violation of the Niantic Terms of Service.


<tos text goes here>

One of my best friends/ local frog got invited to an ENL guardian hunting slack by some people she knows in NJ .... She isn't into that sort of thing, so she doesn't know much else about it. Unsurprised but still sad face :/

In nj's defense I don't think anyone I know in NJ claims friendship with those guys

done

the search fuction is fantastic, but needs to work better

this may be really hard to implement within wordpress

free wordpress

but god the idea is so good

there are a ton of better search plugins

all we need is simple javascript

like super simple javascript

that require like $8 a month professional upgrade

I can write this.

it would take a couple of hours. I'm out of practice

Good to know. I just hate hearing proof it exists even though we know it does, ya know?

putting that on my to do list

Yes, me too

can we make the font size on the roster table about... oh, 65% of what it is currently?

and center the text in all the 'yes' columns?

theyre all left justified

back to the main page. This part:


"– all the portals belonging to a specified agent, including capture dates


– the longest-held portals for a given region


– heatmaps of agents’ activity, including home portals and frequently visited portals


– agents’ Ingress start dates"


should be formatted as an unordered list.


like:


<ul>
<li>thing</li>
<li>thing</li>
&c...
</ul>

Yes please

for each of the things I say, just take it or leave it. I know I'm being nitpicky AF, I just can't help it

Bullet points would be pretty

I can do bullet points

The list of people on front page isnt updated with the RIOT members

ty

I think that list on the main page should just be the roster.

and the menu option that currently goes to roster on a separate page should instead be an internal bookmark to the roster. The more it reads like a brochure, the better.

I dont follow this

Anatomy of a Hit is the most powerful piece of work on the site. It lays out in very clear terms what all thsi shit means

sorry.


Um, instead of having a list of names on the main page, just put the roster on the main page.

oh, ok.

well

I dont want to collapse it.

ok.

i get you

Keep the roster link on the menu, but instead of having it link to a separate page, have it scroll to the point on the main page where the roster is

Like an inline link or whatever that stuff was? With hashtags?

I dont think I like that. The post becomes huge

let me try it

I think I like it

Is it actually Intel.ingress.com?

[[Webpage]]Isn't it www.ingress.com/intel?

[[Webpage]]oh gosh thanks. No. It's ingress.com/intel

good catch

Also maybe make it a link

no if you do then people will click it and get distracted.

but, here's an example of something that should be links:

"790 Resistance agents across the world, including Niantic employees, Vanguards, and anomaly POCs, currently have access to these features directly. There is no way to know how many other agents interact with the bots they administer, but it is estimated to be in the thousands."

changes to:

The end of my paragraph (about scraping) and Charlie's thing about scraping are sort of redundant now

790 Resistance agents across the world, including Niantic employees [1], Vanguards [1] [2] [3], and anomaly POCs [however many], currently have access to these features directly. There is no way to know how many other agents interact with the bots they administer, but it is estimated to be in the thousands.

Q4 pocs only?

where the numbers are hyperlinks to the specific images where those people are captured, and those images are modified to include highlights around the specified people

That’s a serious call out.

it's the whole point

Any interest changing thousands at the end to “five figures”

"this is not just your rank and file, it's your thought leaders"

Good point.

get me the names

yeah I'll do the work one sec

👍👍👍👍👍👍

well maybe 20 mins. I need to walk around or something.

Also you don't actually define scraping, you use the word and then refer to it as a technique.

But you don't say in what fashion

so make it better :) you have a point

I'm going to bed

This is less fact and more spin

All these embellishments are for later personal G+posts

yes but we're not saying those words. We're just putting the most relevant facts in front.

I thought we agreed to let the facts speak for themselves

true, it could be that also

gradations are hard

Assuming our audience is stupid doesn't set up a good start

"here is some stuff, make of it what you will". /drop mic

yeah ok. You guys are right

I need to click the viewfinder back one notch

Linking to images is just citation, not embellishment or assuming the audience is stupid. Highlights may be overkill.

I think you link to their names in the list

I think everyone will definitely read all the names looking for people they know

No worries there

But they may not recognize which are POCs, vanguards, etc

True

I thnk noting the VIPs is not offmark

Guiding people along a narrative when anyone with sense can see what's happening is disingenuous and will be off-putting

I wouldn't without all y'all's help.

anatomy of a hit does need a narrative link. After the first set of four thumbnail screenshots, maybe a hyperlink that says:


"Here's a complete example of how it works:"

no, I dont think we say "these are our thought leaders"

yes. I was just talking about inline hyperlinks to the most interesting bits. The language in quotes was internal monologue, not proposed exposition

Is there a simple way to notate VIPs without such blatant callouts (which could seem spin-y)?

I realize that is kinda contradicting...

Here's what this naughty behavior is. Here's a Slack dedicated to this naughty behavior. Here's the list of people in that Slack. Here's the naughty behavior in that Slack in progress

it would literally just be hyperlinks after the pertinent categories. For instance:


"Vanguards [1] [2] [3] [4]' where the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 are each hyperlinks to images that open in a new window, each depicting a RES vanguard

Right

I realize that

it doesn't have to be like that. It's a feature, not a necessity. Maybe it's overkill, could totally accept that

Names on the roster. "These are facts, here's what they are."