Author Topic: BYOC People Finder (USA) (Read 15271 times)

missioncontrol · « **on:** January 14, 2005, 04:34:38 pm »

Just out of curiosity how come there are not that many people from the USA listed in the people finder link above?

http://www.geocities.com/byoac_finder/

Hoagie_one · « **Reply #1 on:** January 14, 2005, 04:42:38 pm »

i never knew that thing existed....just signed on it

Wyluli · « **Reply #2 on:** January 14, 2005, 04:45:40 pm »

I never knew it existed either. Just added myself to the list.

Daniel270 · « **Reply #3 on:** January 14, 2005, 04:58:04 pm »

just added myself as well.....

stevejt · « **Reply #4 on:** January 14, 2005, 06:40:25 pm »

I have tried. It sends info through email. Since I only use hotmail, it does not work for me. Anyone want to submit my info for me?

I was always wondering why so FEW people add any location to their profile here? Thats even easier to do, and alot quicker for other people to find. I am probably the only one, but when I see someone with a problem I know I can fix, the first thing I do is check to see if they are local.

Steve

quarterback · « **Reply #5 on:** January 15, 2005, 12:28:55 pm »

Hey stevejt, try this:
Type up an email in Hotmail with the subject line of "Form posted from Microsoft Internet Explorer." (no quotes) and the following information in the body of the email.

Quote

NICK=<type your BYOAC nickname here>
COUNTY= <this is the county, not countRy you live in>
STATE= <what State in the U.S.>
EMAIL=Email (OPTIONAL)
ADDITIONAL=Additional Info (OPTIONAL)

Replace the stuff in red with your own information and email it to MrArcade@woh.rr.com

If you'd like, replace the Email and Additional Info with the corresponding information.

Dave_K. · « **Reply #6 on:** January 15, 2005, 02:33:43 pm »

Quote from: Wyluli on January 14, 2005, 04:45:40 pm

I never knew it existed either. Just added myself to the list.

There has been a BYOAC People finder link at the top of the forum web pages since these forums started (its right next to Chatroom link).

BTW: I doubt it will get updated anytime soon as Mr.Arcade has had a falling out with some BYOAC people due to financial hardships.

Goz · « **Reply #7 on:** January 15, 2005, 06:08:36 pm »

If this is something we would like to keep up, I'm willing to take up the task of hosting the tool and maintaining it. I'd ask Mr. Arcade, but I hear that he is very hard to make contact with these days.

I don't think it'd be very hard to actually have other countries as well so we have a world wide view. I'd break it down by city / state / country instead of just by county / state.

-Goz

danny_galaga · « **Reply #8 on:** January 15, 2005, 08:09:18 pm »

i'd be in on that

missioncontrol · « **Reply #9 on:** January 15, 2005, 08:16:06 pm »

a world BYOC People Finder would be great considering there are alot of members out there from all over..........

Goz · « **Reply #10 on:** January 15, 2005, 10:09:01 pm »

At this point this thread should probably be in board discussion, but tonight I'll start building an interface. I'm not sure if it needs maps, but will see what I can put together.

-Goz

IG-88 · « **Reply #11 on:** January 16, 2005, 08:49:45 am »

I've tried for 2 yrs to get myself on that list.

Goz · « **Reply #12 on:** January 16, 2005, 12:27:32 pm »

I ran out of time last night, so I will work on this tonight. I already have a functioning version, but it needs alot of cleanup. When it is first available it will be very similar to what Mr. Arcade had done. I will then cleanup some stuff and throw in some graphics to spiff it up.

I'll be looking for some arcade style fonts and ideas for themes. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to post here or PM me.

Thanks,

-Goz

sirwoogie · « **Reply #13 on:** January 16, 2005, 01:07:24 pm »

I have also been looking at how to replace this feature. I would prefer to host it locally on byoac so we don't have external dependencies. All I have at the moment is USA map to go off of, but perhaps we can, with other users help, get this to a worldwide system.

Goz · « **Reply #14 on:** January 16, 2005, 02:40:25 pm »

ok, I'll back off

I had already depuplicated Mr. Arcades efforts and cleaned up a bit and added support for other countries, but was considering dropping the maps.

Woogie, if you want to keep it on the BYOAC host and want help, let me know.

-Goz

Daniel270 · « **Reply #15 on:** January 16, 2005, 09:52:54 pm »

got the email back that I sent to be added.... looks like the email account on that site isn't working anymore.... unless you guys have had better luck??

missioncontrol · « **Reply #16 on:** January 17, 2005, 02:21:27 pm »

Quote from: Daniel270 on January 16, 2005, 09:52:54 pm

got the email back that I sent to be added.... looks like the email account on that site isn't working anymore....

Goz · « **Reply #17 on:** January 17, 2005, 06:06:12 pm »

I've got a version of it up and runnnig, but it isn't very special. It is a modified version of Mr. Arcades but I'm holding off as Woogie wants it to be something locally hosted to this board. Unfortunately what I have now is what Mr. Arcade was doing which is a person completes the online form which emails him and he manually edits the HTML for the area / region by county. I have NAME, COUNTRY, STATE, CITY as the fields.

In an idead world instead of this being a manual process it would be database driven so that a user submiits their info and it would be updated on the screen automatically. I'm sure I can do this, but I don't have access to the BYOAC host and wouldn't want it as it is too much liability. I am willing to host and update / maintain what i've got currently and then work on putting together a better solution.

-Goz

missioncontrol · « **Reply #18 on:** February 14, 2005, 02:10:54 pm »

*bump

any luck coming up with a new world byoc peoplefinder yet?

Goz · « **Reply #19 on:** February 14, 2005, 10:02:45 pm »

I had pretty much put something together very similar to what Mr. Arcade had did and it could be finished in an hour or so, but They wanted something to be on the BYOAC host. So I stopped.

-Goz

Chris · « **Reply #20 on:** February 15, 2005, 09:56:09 am »

Quote from: Gozur on February 14, 2005, 10:02:45 pm

I had pretty much put something together very similar to what Mr. Arcade had did and it could be finished in an hour or so, but They wanted something to be on the BYOAC host. So I stopped.

-Goz

Well, since that isn't happening, why not finish yours and then once a BYOAC-hosted solution is available you could work out a data export?

--Chris

Otraotaku · « **Reply #21 on:** February 15, 2005, 09:00:45 pm »

Quote from: IG-88 on January 16, 2005, 08:49:45 am

I've treid for 2 yrs to get myself on that list.

Goz · « **Reply #22 on:** February 16, 2005, 11:53:12 am »

Ok, I've got a couple of different approaches to a solution.

One of them is a modified version of Mr. Arcades which incorporates different tree's for different countries.

Another which I think is a better solution and allows for user accts for web administration is a modified version of PML which is a free license web DB for cataloging movies. I have redone fields to match our needs and it supports the use of pictures that can be submitted to go in a profile type view as suggested in this thread You can view this version HERE. If this turns out to be what we use, there are quite a few enhancements that will be done and improvements made to design.

I would appreciate any feedback on the use of this.

Thanks,

-Goz

Goz · « **Reply #23 on:** February 16, 2005, 01:42:32 pm »

I didnt want to enter all of the data from the old people finder into the MySQL database unless we were sure this is what we were going to use. I added just the Californians that are already in the current people finder.

Again any feedback is appreciated.

-Goz

Chris · « **Reply #24 on:** February 16, 2005, 02:12:29 pm »

Maybe we're taking the wrong approach to this.

Most of the information we need is right in the existing BYOAC profile... if we could just get people to fill out their location and have an easy way of listing by location, we wouldn't need a separate databse. Of course, location would need to be separated into City, State, and Country to make them searchable or sortable....

Goz · « **Reply #25 on:** February 16, 2005, 02:23:56 pm »

Quote from: Chris on February 16, 2005, 02:12:29 pm

Maybe we're taking the wrong approach to this.

Most of the information we need is right in the existing BYOAC profile... if we could just get people to fill out their location and have an easy way of listing by location, we wouldn't need a separate databse. Of course, location would need to be separated into City, State, and Country to make them searchable or sortable....

That would be more simple to implement.

I was also considering hosting some games and a chat feature if enough interest existed. But again if there is enough interest, they could be done here as well.

-Goz

Chris · « **Reply #26 on:** February 16, 2005, 02:34:17 pm »

Quote from: Gozur on February 16, 2005, 02:23:56 pm

I was also considering hosting some games and a chat feature if enough interest existed. But again if there is enough interest, they could be done here as well.

I don't want to speak for Saint, but he has shot down the idea of hosting games in the past. ShivaSite (http://www.shivasite.com), which is one of the Visual Pinball sites, has an extensive online arcade, and since there are probably plenty of pinball fans here that might be a good place for BYOACers to hang out and compete...

Goz · « **Reply #27 on:** February 16, 2005, 03:04:52 pm »

Quote from: Chris on February 16, 2005, 02:34:17 pm

Quote from: Gozur on February 16, 2005, 02:23:56 pm
I was also considering hosting some games and a chat feature if enough interest existed. But again if there is enough interest, they could be done here as well.
I don't want to speak for Saint, but he has shot down the idea of hosting games in the past. ShivaSite (http://www.shivasite.com), which is one of the Visual Pinball sites, has an extensive online arcade, and since there are probably plenty of pinball fans here that might be a good place for BYOACers to hang out and compete...

If / When it is decided, I can resume working on what I have done or not depending on what the powers that be may want. Until then, I will go back to being busy with other stuff.

-Goz

missioncontrol · « **Reply #28 on:** February 17, 2005, 02:02:21 pm »

Quote from: Gozur on February 16, 2005, 11:53:12 am

Ok, I've got a couple of different approaches to a solution.

One of them is a modified version of Mr. Arcades which incorporates different tree's for different countries.

Another which I think is a better solution and allows for user accts for web administration is a modified version of PML which is a free license web DB for cataloging movies. I have redone fields to match our needs and it supports the use of pictures that can be submitted to go in a profile type view as suggested in this thread You can view this version HERE. If this turns out to be what we use, there are quite a few enhancements that will be done and improvements made to design.

I would appreciate any feedback on the use of this.

Thanks,

-Goz

your example looks good to me.......

Goz · « **Reply #29 on:** February 17, 2005, 02:31:35 pm »

What I like about it is that it is easily administrated from the same GUI. Superusers can add new lists, add entries, delete, modify, etc. Right now the one that Mr. Arcade put together is hosed, because he is no longer involved. With this you can set all mods as super users or a group of people who can do the updates. I've created a web mail acct so requests to be added could again be done by anyone who has access to the web acct.

-Goz

SirPeale · « **Reply #30 on:** February 17, 2005, 09:11:47 pm »

I just registered, and my name doesn't appear on the list.

Goz · « **Reply #31 on:** February 17, 2005, 10:21:23 pm »

Quote from: Peale on February 17, 2005, 09:11:47 pm

I just registered, and my name doesn't appear on the list.

Peale,

Currenlty it isn't automatic.

user info currently needs to be added by a superuser / admin.

I had only added the California members from the current system as a test.

I can of course start adding people if this is what the community / mods / saint wants.

If interested in being added send an email with name, country, state, city, a picture if you want it listed and any website or personal info you want shown to peoplefinder@perfectidiot.com

conseit68 · « **Reply #32 on:** July 08, 2005, 11:41:29 am »

We have any update on this people finder?...

Goz · « **Reply #33 on:** July 08, 2005, 11:48:15 am »

I was lead to believe that my interim attempt wasn't what was ideally wanted by mods and a few users.

It seems that something hosted on the same server as the BYOAC and possibly integrated with the MYSQL DB that the forums use to populate the location info is what is wanted.

I backed away.... I could easily resume; but its futile if its not what the MODs, Saint, and the masses want.

-Goz

missioncontrol · « **Reply #34 on:** July 08, 2005, 12:33:49 pm »

I vote for it or something like it we need a people finder that is current.......

and I did like the one Gozer was working on.........

saint · « **Reply #35 on:** July 08, 2005, 12:34:22 pm »

I would go ahead and proceed. Progress here is kind of slow

conseit68 · « **Reply #36 on:** July 08, 2005, 12:44:42 pm »

i am simple...i vote for anything that works

Goz · « **Reply #37 on:** July 08, 2005, 12:53:51 pm »

I can resume work on it tonight and should be able to have it available to be used this weekend. It will take a little while though before I can add all the entries from the current version (maybe 3 or 4 days of spare time).

missioncontrol · « **Reply #38 on:** July 08, 2005, 01:46:04 pm »

Quote from: Gozur on July 08, 2005, 12:53:51 pm

I can resume work on it tonight and should be able to have it available to be used this weekend. It will take a little while though before I can add all the entries from the current version (maybe 3 or 4 days of spare time).

some of the stuff from the current list may be obsolete....... Just have everybody send you new info..........

don't know if I can be any help or not but if you need some help let me know............

Goz · « **Reply #39 on:** July 08, 2005, 02:11:12 pm »

Quote from: missioncontrol on July 08, 2005, 01:46:04 pm

Quote from: Gozur on July 08, 2005, 12:53:51 pm
I can resume work on it tonight and should be able to have it available to be used this weekend. It will take a little while though before I can add all the entries from the current version (maybe 3 or 4 days of spare time).

some of the stuff from the current list may be obsolete....... Just have everybody send you new info..........

don't know if I can be any help or not but if you need some help let me know............

Smashing idea... fresh start... makes quick work. It is configurable to have super users with admin privs

I may take you up on the offer.

-Goz


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