Topic: BTCTALK CARDS - The Real-time Custom Cards for Bitcointalk Members (Read 1787 times)

At first I was thinking more around using iframes actually so that you can simply embed a card using a URL with a user ID in it, but having the ability to render the card as an image with an would also be useful say if you wanted to paste it into Bitcointalk then you have a permalink without using an image host such as Imgur.

I actually thought people stopped using after Shockwave/ActiveX et al were phased out.


Yeah I have the domain, a web server and even a landing page to put this on, all I need is the brains for how to accomplish this kind of thing. It's something I plan on doing as soon as I finish helping a friend with their Django installation, hopefully I'll wrap that up today or tomorrow 

Yeah! This is certainly possible to do so. You can create HTTP request with username in API call, server can create card in real time and send back base64 image data as response.

Rendering image in HTML webpage is also possible. I am doing this in my Bitcointalk Face-off Game. First cards are created on server side using PHP which is then rendered in front-end. Alternatively, you can go for HTML5 card creation too. The work flow for that would be, first server will fetch the data then javascript will create HTML5 card in front-end using the data.

Just to confirm if I understood it correctly, what do you mean by 'embeddable'?
- image that can be shown in html page using tag, or
- image to be shown in html page immediately after creation, or
- tag of HTML?

Are you planning to create something? If you want to share, I may help you with the flow.

@webtricks do you think that making an embeddable HTML5 card with post/merit/activity count and rank/DT status where you can just fill in a user ID to render it is doable? I don't think there's much work involved besides setting up a domain and an API which people can call to get base64 image data. The cards can even be plain and simple without decorations if that makes it easier, I don't mind.

Great idea!
I stumbled by chance on this thread and have also created a card from me... :

Bump!

WHOA - apologies super big
Thanks @absy and special thanks to @webtricks

If you click on your username , it will be in the URL in the format u= ID . Well don't worry I did it for you  , here is your user ID -> 1781771

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Also here is my Card lol.

Only just noticed this - sorry newb question how do you find your user ID?
TIA

I gave the face off game a quick shot and look who I came up against!

The HERO!  


He didn't knock me out.  I bowed out gracefully

Bump! I have paid for a year hosting+domain so why should this thread bury down in the pages! It deserved to be bumped.  

If you haven't tried it already then try now: https://btctalk.cards . Do share your card in the thread, it would be interesting to see.

Here is my recent basic card:

Since BPIP is under construction, BTCTalk Cards can no longer scrape BFF data from BPIP.
Therefore BFF option has been deprecated from the card. (Also it was one of the most controversial data in the card as far as Wall Observer thread is concerned).
In the place of BFF option, Trust data has been added. Positive and Negative Trust of the member from Default Trust (no custom list) will be printed.

Do you have an idea of how to print them ? A specialized site ?

Why not offer card packs for sale ? I'm sure it could work ( I'm the first to like that kind of thing )

Wow! These are looking fabulous. I think I will print a set of like 50 cards for myself. You have motivated me to do so. 


Yeah sure. Would love to see your version.

How it may look in real life. Also OP may I offer you my own version?

You can integrate the Imgur API on your project ( I used it for my bot, it's not very complicated ) :
- https://apidocs.imgur.com/?version=latest

And if you really do not want to bother you, you can add a clickable button to copy the image in the Clipboard of the user, and at the same time open a Imgur page ( At that moment, the user has more than to paste the image to host it ).

Yes that may be a lot for not much ha ha


Yes I received the code, thank you very much. It's interesting to see how everyone can develop a project

While there are cheap hosting plans to store images plus compression when people upload, it's understandable about the copyrighted/ plagiarized concerns.

You could always link those image hosting sites when the user selects the custom option.

The problem is, I don't want to store images on my disk belonging to someone else. It may be possible people use images which have copyright. I know I am thinking too much as it's only 120*80px picture but you don't know when your time goes bad. On top of it, it may consume some of my memory which I could use for my other projects. 
Nevertheless, you can always use image hosting services like imgur or imgbb and then use that link to create card. It will take just 2 extra minutes.


I have sent you PM regarding this. Just share your email in private and I will be glad to share image generating code with you. 

I feel so small compared to others with such Merits :c

As @OP says, you can upload your own image to image hosting such as imgbb, postimages, imgur etc and then put your URL on custom avatar. Using this way will save @OP server/hosting from unnecessary file on disk space.

If you could let us choose avatar directly from device that would be great.

Sorry, please get someone to assist you when posting. Your massacre of the English language is too disturbing to attempt to tackle.

Now I suspect lafu is saying he wants to know does pushing a ton of members INTO THE EXIT SCAMMING EXCHANGE HE WORKED FOR get him extra power points?  along with achieving nothing of note here ever and supporting scammers??

Now back on topic please discussing the merits of this shitty game some merit grasping dreg has created that really has ZERO meaning and ZERO value.

Did they let you out again ?

I was thinking where the hell you was the last week , because nobody complaining and has written text walls of shit !


Its not abused , its just bit better written as it normal is !

It should be -9999 on the Reputation normal .

Your game is a misleading piece of net negative CRAP. You are a low functioning drooling dreg.

The only objective metrics with ANY meaning are the activity , and post count. The rest is abused and debunked garbage. Do you get that now??

What has this garbage got to do with meta board?

Perhaps someone with some real talent and half a brain could create some cards with objective none gamed meaningful metrics being used.

1. time logged in
2. word count
3. different projects been part of
4. NOT spamming mixing gambling shit sigs everywhere ROOBET spammer.

anything other that your merit seeking moronic game cards that are meaningless and net negative.

As promised, here we go: Face-Off Game

Thanks!
Nice card. 

By the way, coming up with something much more interesting and exciting related to cards in few hours. Be around. 

Good work webtrick and this is my custom card  .


Edit:
Sure i will be waiting to see .

This is my card:
Twenty stars and 1037 for Reputation, look good.  
Can you adjust to automatically display in white- or transparent-background?

Make sure you set your trust settings to DefaultTrust only, or else your results will be tainted by your list!

I can auto email a daily CSV file of every profile and their DT feedback score, once the new parser and extension are released.

Ok ok, I understand no problem

I do not doubt that it is not very complicated to do, it was more out of curiosity

Otherwise yes I discovered it by chance for the problem of captcha

For your question, I advise you anyway to use a Cookie system.
Although it will not really pose a performance problem for the forum, I do not know the limitations on the connection / disconnection.

Sorry buddy, I have no intention to publicize image generation code at the moment. As you know, apart from that, rest of the site could be created by anyone having modest PHP knowledge. So for a time being, I would like to keep that private. Well, you can try to create that code. It is not that difficult, just require little innovative thinking.



Thank you for showing where I was making mistake. I didn't know about ccode with which one can skip recaptcha. The captcha was the only obstacle for my trust scraping code.

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Seeking answer for this question: Currently, whenever someone request to create card, my alt account: webtricks_random gets login and provide trust score. Is it ok or will it effect forum in any way? If it effects the performance of forum, I can save data in cookies file rather than login at every request.

Update 4: The Reputation stat is now working properly for all the members. Here are the testimonials for the same:

 

As I said on the other subject, if it is possible, I would know the part that generates the images ( In private message if necessary )

Also, if it interests you, I developed an API that retrieves the user trusts score :
- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.53092166

There you go:

Surprise me

Which color?

Can somebody do mine?

Not currently able to use a VPN or Tor where I am. Not really wanting to reveal my IP on an external website.

2 Merit’s in it for whoever does the deed.

More like a restoration of proper order.
Yeah! Save the current ones, it would be fun to compare when new stats come. Everyone gonna be affected by new stats.

A coup?  or a restoration of proper order?

Members really seem to like this, and I generated one card for myself and saved it.. but maybe it would be good to save all three colors just to be able to see the comparisons of the cards with the current algorithm?  I'm going to do that now.

Update 3: the font for number '4' has been improvised.

Image with old font:                                       Image with new font:
 

Yes! Reputation depends upon Card Type too. If you take the reputation of black card as base then:

(Golden Card Reputation / Black Card Reputation)*100 = 95%
(Basic Card Reputation / Black Card Reputation)*100 = 90%

In other words, black cards are 10% more valuable as compared to basic card and golden cards are 5% more valuable than basic.
Also that is 4 not 9. Just font is little more old school.

Reputation depends on the card type?
I've created Basic, Gold and Black satoshi's cards, but they all have different Reputation.

   

http://btctalk.cards/ - Initial data:

Haha, loaded some random 10-12 pictures, didn't look those thoroughly.
But you can't deny ETH image is better than white banner! Don't know why will someone choose bitcointalk avatar when he/she doesn't have one! 


Yes! It means you're the most popular member here as per present popularity score. But soon gonna edit it to depict better result and you may slide down to 90-95 and theymos will be only 100 after new changes.

Does the 100 mean that my card is the strongest? 

Ummmm... I think your BitcoinTalk card generator might have been haxxed:



     

Perhaps you need to double check the "random" avatars... #justSayin

MERIT instead of MERTS makes the text out of alignment making it looks less cool. I tried everything but still 1px difference will be there either between MERIT: and value or between left border and MERIT:. That 1px is making whole card look out of order, that's why I am sticking with MERTS even though I don't like it too.

Just had a thought that I didn't make my own card, here's the one:
BASIC

Nice card designs! One thing though, can MERTS be changed to MERIT?

Since I'm not really active at WO Thread and only following some random post and discussion there.

I feels shy to request that. However, he created the 10th-anniversary hat everyone can use that maybe i will wear those hats.

I found some tutorials creating hat at meta, but since i don't really have editing skills. My hat quality and the graphic was really bad, i decide to deleted my own hat xD.

The site uses sessions to create card. Firstly, details such as bitcointalk id, your chosen specifications for card are saved in a session, then script uses that session to create the card. But since site doesn't record/save any user sessions (because I am believer of decentralization ), the sessions are user-specific, in other words card can only be viewed on your computer. Hence we can't see your card from link above.
Also you won't see the card now because sessions are terminated when connection is abrupt or browser is closed.

Hello,
You must download card directly from the 'Download Card' button on step2 page once your card is generated.
The image is converted into PHP format if you click 'Display in browser' button.

Hi @webtricks,

I created my card successfully but I can not download it as image file. The file I download is in .php. Can you guide me more how to download card as an image, please.

http://btctalk.cards/display.php

  

if someone is trying to make a physical card, for information such as Post, Activity, Merit, Rank, Reputation and BFF. need to be replaced with BARCODE which will go directly to the profile link or Digital Card. Because post info, ativity, merit etc. will keep changing.

As an example of the membership card design that I made this.

Glad you liked it. By the way, nice card!

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It won't show Japanese because it's a custom font. Since I don't know Japanese, I cannot add Japanese characters, sorry.

I will see if preview could be added. Maybe possible with Javascript, will give it a try.

Umm..about hats, yeah that's possible too. But I think I shouldn't indulge in that out of homage to xhomerx10. Also it's kinda cult of hat among wall observer contributors so creating hat for every member wouldn't be appropriate and defy the purpose of hat altogether. Why not request xhomerx10, he might create one for you.

Trying to create my own card.

The title only shows up for numeric & alphabet word, i try to add a Japanese word from my personal text but it doesn't show up. I think add a preview at the bottom would be good, we can see the preview of the card before generating the card. Anyway, would you also add "Hat Generator" at the future like the WO family? I want to create my own hat since i can't do a photoshop its a bit hard for me created my personal hats xD.

 
Thanks for this project. I also made myself a card. I really liked

Yeah, I tried to push for the collectible coin, and was still open to it. A "big" manufacturer actually got in touch, and said they would be interested. However, when I messaged back asking for a little more details to get the ball rolling they didn't answer. Although, they didn't actually log into the forum account. So, that's a shame, and it was fairly ambitious to get it all done, and ready for the 10th anniversary. I'd definitely be willing to contribute for other significant landmarks of the forum though.

As for the cards they're definitely a lot less ambitious, and easier to do. Deciding on a business model for the cards is probably the hardest. The most fun way would be to have random packs, but I just don't think there would be enough interest. So, making cards for the top 100 recognized using the BPIP's data with Vod's permission would likely be the best idea. Designing these cards with holographic card, and colouring them based on their position within the 100 would probably be better considering the costs.

I have no plans to go for physical cards. Maybe someone else can decide to make these come alive. If anyone else can take initiative, I can provide all that required for making cards worth collectible - like more neat design, holographic design, etc.
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That's alright. I do believe we'll eventually get some physical cards made if there seems to be enough interest.

I have no plans to go for physical cards. Maybe someone else can decide to make these come alive. If anyone else can take initiative, I can provide all that required for making cards worth collectible - like more neat design, holographic design, etc.

I would love this, and there was an idea floating around last year or earlier this year that never got traction--which is sort of the same situation with the bitcointalk commemorative coin which has been suggested.  I think a physical set of trading cards or playing cards featuring some of the most notable members of the forum would be an incredible snapshot of what the forum is like ten years on.  You could look back on such a set years later and wonder what happened to those members or recollect fondly on a piece of history.  It's a great idea IMO.

It's probably a good way to make money for whoever makes such a set, too.  I'd sure as hell buy one, probably two.  There are some very talented designers and manufacturers in the Collectibles section, and I'm sure some of them would have no trouble making a set.  Webtricks did a great job with his design here, and I'd be happy with a card of his design (though he'd have to make a backside).

Updates:
Update 1: 'Bitcoiner' has been replaced with 'Bitcointalker' on the suggestion of many members.

Update 2: Now you can add custom image on your card. Just click 'Custom Avatar' in Avatar section and paste your image url. The format of image can be PNG, JPEG or GIF.

Example for Update 2:

Literally, opened a thread about maybe getting a trading card game off the ground. If something like this could be created for physical cards then I think that would be pretty neat. The only issue with this is all the cards would have to be custom designed, and would need to avoid using copyrighted images.

Any plans on creating physical cards of these?

Those options are for personal favorites, so I still think you should expand to new options, lower-/ upper-case, fontsize. Then people will choose what they want for their cards.

I am afraid that's not possible. I can't dynamically change the size of image as per the size of avatar. It is impossible stuff to do.  Alternatively, you can change your avatar size to 120px*80px.

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That's delay is from bitcointalk. It takes 30 minutes to show your new avatar on bitcointalk if one is wore already. No problem, I will create option to choose custom image as avatar shortly. But you have to enter URL - a valid URL to show avatar. Moreover, size of image should be 120px*80px. Just give me 2-3 hours since I just woke up and I will add this option shortly.


This I won't do. I don't wanna fill space on my disk. I will only allow option to choose avatar. So first upload image to imgur or imgbb and then paste that link to create avatar.


Fonts are fine, aren't they? If some text goes out of box then tell me, I will fix that.


I am afraid uppercase is standard format for such cards. Believe me, lowercase will look horrible. It will look like some 4th grader trying to write cursive.

Yeah even I feel post count is wrong for the calculation since it has very wide range and hardly a link with reputation (see Quickseller). Will edit reputation code to give much less importance to posts.


I already had thought over this and here is what I propose if we wanna go with game:

1. Restrict the cards to top 2000 members to make game reasonable.

2. Card identifier system. Once card is generated, an identifier will be printed on it which could be verified from 'card verification tool'. For example card with identifier gtjd-difi-4523-idfd when verified will give results like: This Vod Black Card was generated by user having member Id: 114505564721. This card belongs to the batch of December, 2019. The stats of card are as follow.... So even though I have the photo card but the real ownership of the card will lie with the member who generated it.

3. Card Trading House. This is the place where member can generate card, store it and trade it.

4. A monthly batch of cards rather than real-time. New stats will be updated on first of every month. So the card generated on 1st or 28th of the month will look same. This is to make game competitive.

5. PvP card game. A game where I can bet against another player. For example, I bet 0.001 with my Theymos Card and you matched my game and you entered the game with DarkStar_ Card. To make game interesting, one random card will be drawn for both side at that very moment (which will be purely random and provably-fair) and the average of both card will decide the winner. So having strong card will win only half of your game. Now suppose second card for me is Webtricks Basic Card and you get Lauda Golden Card then you will win on average even if my base card was strong.

6. To make cards valuable and scarce, a user can only generate 10 cards a month by paying card generation fees like 0.0005 BTC. The user will have equal chance of getting Theymos card or Webtricks card for that 0.0005 BTC. Once generated, the user can sale the same card in trading house for much-much high. For example, Theymos will have very high value (like 0.03-0.04 BTC) whereas Webtricks will hardly have (like 0.0005-0.00075 BTC value). So to play the game, user first have to own at least one base card which he can either generate randomly for 0.0005 BTC or buy any specific card from trading house for market price.

7. Once card is traded, the new identifier will be generated and old will expire. So if user with ID: 114505564721 sells his Vod card of December, 2019 batch to user with ID: 452152604521 then gtjd-difi-4523-idfd will show 'identifier expired, this card is sold' and user: 452152604521 will get new card with same stats but new identifier.


So this is my proposition. What do you say?

Also my big question - Who will play the game?

Do we have enough support from btctalk family that I go forward and spend next month developing above said? Will members here actually play and involve in this?

Not only this, I want to point out another suggestion.

For now, the card will be created using currently worn avatar of one user. It means if I am wearing a signature of a company I advertise for, I am unable to create my card with my own avatar.

In additiona, there is a bit delay of avatar update. I tried to update with my own avatar just to create the card I want but it still using my previous avatar.

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I suggest several things:

• Add link to browse and load personal avatars when creating cards.
• Smaller fonts for all texts, excludes: Star, Username, and Reputation.
• Using lower-case for all contents, not Capitalize all text like the current version

How to adjust the image to fit into my avatar?

BFF is the person who gave you the maximum merits. I had one slot of stat empty so filled it with BFF at the last minute. 


Wow! Sounds wonderful. Waiting for LoyceV army.


Yeah. I tried that and it worked too. But won't it give retrospective results?

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Haha, I had no such intentions. Was just short of avatars.

Try this:

Nice work!

How do you calculate the reputation score?

Posts/Activity is redundant.  Posts can be manipulated/spammed.  Activity is the better solution.  What about the trust score?  You could use all three values as attributes in a card game.  Make each card a crypto asset.  I could provide the verified membership system and arena if you decide you want to go ahead with it.

Also, since these stats change over time, you could have the cards dynamic.  
1: "Hey, want to buy Vod for 0.1 btc?"
2: "Maybe, but not this month - he lost the DT1 lottery and is weak.  I'll give you 0.05"





For Vod I get the error:

Enter a valid BitcoinTalk ID

Are you trying to not-so-subtly imply that suchmoon is an alt of theymos?

The BFFs seem to be a very select group. Based on the largest Merit cycling I guess?

I like it! Summoning LoyceV to unleash that increased Merit source on you!


For trust ratings: if you feed your browser cookies to your scraper, you can get it from the forum directly.

Note One: I use BPIP to get trust ratings. Currently trust ratings on BPIP are not accurate for most of the members so reputation score maybe uneven at the moment. I will try to resolve that or wait for BPIP to show correct data. Reputation Score is now working fine for every member

Note Two: It's already 3:19 A.M here in India. I had this stubbornness with my own self to post this thread today so here I am. But believe me, I am half asleep. Will update OP with more information tomorrow (first thing in the morning). Also if you find any glitch on website, just inform me, I will fix it tomorrow (second thing in the morning ). For the time being, please read this FAQs if you have any doubt: http://btctalk.cards/doc.php (I have spent 20 minutes on these so these are worthy too).

Update Log:

On the occasion of 10th anniversary of the forum, I am pleased to present you all BTCTalk Cards. With BTCTalk Cards, you can generate your own very-custom cards in real-time. Just fill your Bitcointalk ID, choose your specifications and your card will be generated in the matter of seconds.



Some Examples: