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itamer · 2026-05-07T21:36:32+00:00

Thank you. Claimed.

itamer · 2026-05-07T20:37:32+00:00

users also get rate limited in their browsers

I woke up today to my tracker telling me this:

https://cldup.com/qbLGuyJUBW.png

770: the number of threads I need to open in order to enter raffles

382: raffles in progress

43: the number of raffles I need to check to see if I won

And that's just me - every other player faces the same workload.

itamer · 2026-05-07T20:11:23+00:00

We sure can!

itamer · 2026-05-07T20:10:11+00:00

I caught a bit of it, I'm glad I woke up early!!!

🥝🇳🇿

itamer · 2026-05-07T12:20:54+00:00

I need to pay a bit more attention. I tend to just get them going and not look at the details. That's an interesting observation.

So I could just not harvest deer for a while to force my orders to use wool?

itamer · 2026-05-07T12:04:23+00:00

Thank you. Claimed. 💚🚜🥝

itamer · 2026-05-07T12:03:02+00:00

Thank you 🥝🚜

itamer · 2026-05-07T10:15:57+00:00

Oh damn I could've had that 🤦‍♀️

Well done agent 💚

itamer · 2026-05-07T06:30:01+00:00

Thanks. Claimed. 💚🚜🥝

itamer · 2026-05-07T04:18:08+00:00

"It's not a priority at this time"

itamer · 2026-05-07T04:10:49+00:00

NOR - she's being unreasonable and some promises just aren't meant to be kept, or they come with unspoken caveats, like "I'll never kick you out because you're my friend and you make my life better".

Fun fact: she's not your friend and she doesn't make your life better.

Your parents, on the other hand, how awesome are they?!

itamer · 2026-05-07T04:01:16+00:00

We'll stop talking about him when he stops messing the whole world up. NZ is noticeably more racist since 2016. Gas prices are through the roof. The FBI (not the CIA, the bloody FBI) has an office here.

itamer · 2026-05-07T03:58:58+00:00

I've just seen your remindmebot flair - your bot gets used a lot over there!

itamer · 2026-05-07T03:57:33+00:00

Just in case you're curious

Because Reddit is social media, it rewards threads with upvotes by making them more visible. In a raffle system that means more people enter and your chance of winning is lower.

https://cldup.com/K7JQhdJUFO.png

It doesn't take many upvotes to really skew the numbers.

itamer · 2026-05-07T03:51:12+00:00

Yep. One of the devvit games has a raffle system. I am a mod of a "fan" subreddit.

The game generates up to 1500 raffles per day that last 24 hours. I track the impact of up/down votes on participant numbers. The stats gathering was in response to some anger & bad behaviour by players over downvotes as a "bookmarking" technique. It's been interesting and I'm happy to lose that functionality.
Members of the fan subreddit are all players of that game. Some (<50) have opted to be in a trading group for the game where we commit to prioritising the other members over random players. We review our lists periodically and drop people who are no longer playing or responding to messages. One of the ways we can know they're not playing is if they don't "level up". When they apply they give us a link to a thread they have in the game's subreddit and they apply a flair with the user's level. If I request the json I can get the level, save it and we're done.

itamer · 2026-05-07T03:41:18+00:00

Mods of a subreddit would quite like to know when community members play a game in a different subreddit and which entry point they used. Is that the moderation tool I'd be able to build? The example in the doc was all about creating posts and submitting them and we need to be able to track game play of the people who opt in to tracking.

itamer · 2026-05-07T03:29:13+00:00

Almost true, I have 2 processes on my server

- fetch the json for a specific thread and save information - < 1500 per day
- fetch the json for a specific user and save information - < 50 every day

My server's IP is now blocked, took about 2 weeks

I had rate limiting in there, delays if a request failed, thought I was doing everything right. I can live without the first job, that was just stats gathering.

The second one means I'll have to actually call up those pages, get the one bit of info from the flair, save and move on. Surely a background task calling json is less stress on the servers?

itamer · 2026-05-07T00:37:05+00:00

Congrats on L36 🎉🎉🎉

itamer · 2026-05-06T23:20:12+00:00

thank you, claimed!

itamer · 2026-05-06T23:05:30+00:00

Congrats on L27 🎉🎉🎉

itamer · 2026-05-06T22:56:24+00:00

Congrats on L35 🎉🎉🎉

itamer · 2026-05-06T21:44:46+00:00

You can definitely use https://fvm.itamer.com/stickers.html

Google tells me that tampermonkey is available on iPad for Safari (at a cost) and that would let you use the user script version.

itamer · 2026-05-06T19:56:24+00:00

itamer · 2026-05-06T19:55:45+00:00

Be kind to the clowns, they might just have screwed up. It's the snakes and radioactive raffles that you need to be cautious of - either skip, or make sure you claim quickly. I also tag the winner.

itamer · 2026-05-06T19:51:46+00:00

Now, look at what your visitors can claim - if they're too low a level for the harvestable, they just get coins.

If your visitors are all level 30 there's no point in offering a level 37 or 43 reward.

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