I noticed @Piggy went online at the end of July.
I haven’t been able to contact him since a long time ago, but at least seeing him checking in, reassures me he’s ok.
I would love him to be back posting, but I do respect his choices.
Regarding the bot, please be aware @TryNinja setup a very nice bot for you all to use.
You can find it here:
[TELEGRAM] Yet Another BitcoinTalk Notification BOT (merits, mentions, topics,+)
Topic: [Beta] @mention notification bot open for testing - now with Telegram (Read 37675 times)
August 09, 2020, 02:00:08 AM
December 27, 2019, 09:10:33 AM
Yes, in my humble opinion need a little of work, and not work with forum pm
Only telegram
But work and is a good alternative
I hope this dont die, because for me is usefull
Only telegram
But work and is a good alternative
I hope this dont die, because for me is usefull
December 27, 2019, 06:18:27 AM
now I see why my Telegram Maggiordomo is quiet for a while 
An alternative to telegram notification https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/telegrambot-merit-watcher-and-mention-notification-bot-5209107 
December 27, 2019, 04:24:43 AM
now I see why my Telegram Maggiordomo is quiet for a while
thx LoyceV for the alternative I will subscribe to your service
Piggy's notifications made my life on forum easier, I hope that he is ok and will be back soon
Best regards
thx LoyceV for the alternative I will subscribe to your service
Piggy's notifications made my life on forum easier, I hope that he is ok and will be back soon
Best regards
December 15, 2019, 03:24:50 PM
Let's just move the discussion here : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-piggy-disappearance-and-the-notification-bot-issues-discussion-thread-5209802
We need to keep this thread clean
While Piggy is away, I've created my (experimental) alternative: LoyceV's alternative for Piggy's @mention notification bot.We need to keep this thread clean
It's work in progress, but works already, and continues from the moment Maggiordomo went offline (until I remove old notifications after 7 days).
You'll need to subscribe in that topic to use it.
December 15, 2019, 12:37:33 PM
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Nobody knows how long it will take, so maybe try something different as we wait, of course, if there is any because I only heard about Piggy notification bot for Bitcointalk so far.
There's another bot with browser push notifications, but I haven't tested it (and can't find it back now).I also tried to find a possible open sourced code for his work, but couldn't find any. I guess he didn't share it or didn't document it for it to be found...
Cost of vps is, so 10€/month
120€/year is just 1€/year for everyone.. very little fee for thia very usefull tool
120€/year is just 1€/year for everyone.. very little fee for thia very usefull tool
More like 2-3€/month. And someone as savvy as Piggy will most definitely have some dedicated servers already. Not like he is leasing extra HW for such a small project (small in term of processing power/storage/bandwith)
December 15, 2019, 11:57:25 AM
Let's just move the discussion here : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-piggy-disappearance-and-the-notification-bot-issues-discussion-thread-5209802
We need to keep this thread clean
We need to keep this thread clean
December 15, 2019, 11:19:06 AM
Cost of vps is, so 10€/month
120€/year is just 1€/year for everyone.. very little fee for thia very usefull tool
120€/year is just 1€/year for everyone.. very little fee for thia very usefull tool
The VPS is not an issue here, the person disappearing is. VPS even if paid for years in advance still needs some maintenance from time to time and if only one person has access to it - that's always going to be a problem. Scraping posts is also an inherently unstable business (a minor tweak to forum's HTML may break it) so what's needed is not just someone with remote reboot access but also access to the code, or open source code.
I was working on a plan to address this but seeing how LoyceV is taking it over let's see what he comes up with.
December 15, 2019, 08:09:09 AM
Cost of vps is, so 10€/month
120€/year is just 1€/year for everyone.. very little fee for thia very usefull tool
120€/year is just 1€/year for everyone.. very little fee for thia very usefull tool
December 15, 2019, 07:19:41 AM
I think he has problems in real life or normal commitments. Job, Family, Stress, Children...
Do you know him personally? Maybe we could help in some way. For expiring VPS, in my humble opinion is better for all - forum - to buy VPS and maintain the bot
I think it would easily be taken care of if there’s a fund to be raised for Maggiordomo. Having 161 users surely would be able to get to the yearly subscription with a low amount per person. December 15, 2019, 05:06:31 AM
I think he has problems in real life or normal commitments. Job, Family, Stress, Children...
For expiring VPS, in my humble opinion is better for all - forum - to buy VPS and maintain the bot
For expiring VPS, in my humble opinion is better for all - forum - to buy VPS and maintain the bot
December 15, 2019, 03:44:27 AM
Telegram bot is not working. Is there a problem?
If you read the posts from the previous page, it’s most likely that the VPS where Maggiordomo is running has expired. And you can see in the second post of Piggy that it hasn’t been updated. The last parsed messages is 12/12/19. I am also not getting any PM notifications in the last two days. Just noticed that another user replied and quoted one of my posts but I wasn't notified over PM. I am not sure if there are more quotes. Usually I get at least 2-3 PMs daily but in the last two days there hasn't been any notifications.
There’s a discussion on the old posts and I think it would benefit your thoughts with regards to what happened. I was surprised as well when I wasn’t receiving PM’s too. 
December 15, 2019, 02:53:45 AM
I am also not getting any PM notifications in the last two days. Just noticed that another user replied and quoted one of my posts but I wasn't notified over PM. I am not sure if there are more quotes. Usually I get at least 2-3 PMs daily but in the last two days there hasn't been any notifications.
December 15, 2019, 02:26:19 AM
Telegram bot is not working. Is there a problem?
December 14, 2019, 03:44:50 PM
Would it be possible to have the bot let you track a specific thread? There's some threads that I've created where I'd like to get notified when someone replies, even if I'm not explicitly mentioned.
I wasn't planning on adding that, because the forum offers that feature already: click notify on the bottom-right of a thread. December 14, 2019, 03:36:56 PM
Does anybody know any good alternative for Maggiordomo bot?
In the meantime (until LoyceV finishes their bot), your best bet is probably to use the forum's search function. It's *slightly* better than Maggiordomo as you get a few more results that Maggiordomo missed, but it's a manual check unfortunately.
Once I have it working, it'll be easy to expand with keywords (say: "Bitcoin") and a blacklist (we all know who I'm talking about) of users to ignore.
Would it be possible to have the bot let you track a specific thread? There's some threads that I've created where I'd like to get notified when someone replies, even if I'm not explicitly mentioned.
December 14, 2019, 11:07:39 AM
December 14, 2019, 08:24:17 AM
I stopped receiving notifications from the bot in telegram. Has anyone else encountered such a problem?
Less than 2 hours after iasenko asked how Piggy is doing, Maggiordomo was last online:Code:
Last Active: Today at 12:10:58 AM
(Amsterdam time)So I guess we'll have to wait for Piggy to remember us
Thanks.
I too will hope that piggy is doing well and he will soon return to us.
His bot is like a drug, try it once on hard without it.
December 14, 2019, 05:56:22 AM
I can set up something similar to LoyceV's: Follow users on Bitcointalk.org (posts and/or topics), but so far that doesn't have a lot of users.
It's less easy to follow than PMs, but doesn't give PM-spam for active users and you could use a Browser plugin such as check4change for it to get notifications.
If there's a demand, I'll make it. Including a blacklist
Dealing with quotes is a bit annoying though, so I need some time to make this.it will be great if you can do that because it will make us know every Quote/mention made with our username in it so we can reply immediately to their posts
December 14, 2019, 05:04:12 AM
I can set up something similar to LoyceV's: Follow users on Bitcointalk.org (posts and/or topics), but so far that doesn't have a lot of users...
It would be great if you can set up anything that will show notifications at least for quotes and mentions.
If the set up will be easy then I am sure all actual Maggiordomo bot users will use it (at least until Piggy is back
).I think there are quite a few Maggiordomo bot users, taking into consideration how many views this thread has compared to others started at the same time.
I see that without the bot and notifications I am missing or am too late with a lot of things on the forum.
...I'd never see the local boards on which I'm mentioned without a bot...
That was just a perfect tool to be fully aware of all activity on the forum in which we were involved and additionally give the insights about things we are not aware of like username mentions, quotes and so on. Without this bot, we are missing a lot of organic action which concerns us. I think all actual Maggiordomo bot users know exactly what I am talking about. The daily tasks on the forum are much easier and faster with this bot.
...There's another bot with browser push notifications, but I haven't tested it (and can't find it back now)...
I already found this thread but for me, this doesn't work at all in Google, Firefox, Edge, Brave and these are all browsers I am actually using.
Here is this thread if somebody wants to check: Bitcointalk Quote Notifier | push notifications
Additionally, I found this tool: Quote/Keyword/Reply/Topic Notifier but is not easy to set up and only for phones.
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