kalleth / mpukviewr

Daemon and Rails application for viewr.

mpukviewr

Daemon and Rails application for viewr.

license

Before using this project yourself, there are some portions of it under a proprietary license as they were made by @CosmicDuck (twitter) rather than myself. LICENSE sets out all of these exceptions.

This project is released for noncommercial use under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA license (see LICENSE). Why? Because I want to make it free (as in beer) for noncommercial use (i.e. nonprofit events), NOT because I am under the illusion that using a CC-BY-NC-SA license turns viewr into true 'Open Source Software'.

mpukviewr's Issues

Prevent desktop notification calls when user not using webkit browsers

If the user is using IE/ff and attempts to enable/disable desktop notifications, it causes a JS error. This is bad as it prevents viewr from working.

Create a 'servers' widget box

List of gameservers for people to join. People submit their servers, viewr maintains a list (ordered by time since)

• auto-removes after X amount of time
• possible auto-backend query of servers
• trigger notification when server added
  • spam/flood protection
• 'server down?' button, >X clicks, remove.

Add ability to flag posts as 'important'

Manually in the backend we should have a duplicate of the viewr feed, but have the ability to flag a post as 'important', having it highlighted in the feed in some manner.

Switch twitter to streaming API

So that we don't 'poll', we need to switch to the streaming twitter API, which should also make notifications pretty much instant for new tweets.

Creatively deal with invalid forum post titles

Appears that Viewr doesn't like square brackets in forum titles and instead posts as:

"Error - could not retrieve post title (encoding) -"

Could the feedpoller just strip the invalid characters and keep the rest of the title?

URL in this case was: http://forums.multiplay.co.uk/insomnia46/91320-minecraft-signups-now-open-over-1000-prize-pot-goodies-eset-bequiet

Fix may be related to Issue#2

Consider creating a 'projector-friendly' simple feed

Should be a white-on-black or black-on-white feed of a few latest posts, suitable for display on a projector.

First-time-only dismissable popover 'welcome' screen

It was made clear to me that some users aren't aware that viewr auto-updates. When the user first opens the app, we should provide a popover 'modal' box that tells the user:

• This app auto updates. Do not refresh the page (unless 'CONNECTION ERROR' appears on the screen?)
• This is an unmoderated live feed. blahblahblah.

Prevent URL's in tweets from being cut off

When someone RT's a tweet ending in a URL, that URL can be truncated because of the RT @whatsisname at the start.

The twitter API allows the URL (whilst truncated) to still be properly hyperlinked by providing it as extra data in a 'metadata' part of the tweetdata. Use this metadata info to hyperlink URL's in tweets, rather than fuzzy 'scan + turn into href' that happens currently (see: https://github.com/kalleth/mpukviewr/blob/master/feedpoller/lib/autolink.rb)

Prevent duplicate RT's appearing in feed

Frequently MPLAY_Wizzo would RT an iseries tweet, or vice versa.

These should be intelligently detected so that the same tweet doesn't appear on the feed twice.

Forum posts containing £ break Sanitize gem and if not sanitized break db because of charset

Backtrace:

2012-05-04 21:22:21.805621 feedpoller(61554) [INFO] controller.rb:114: Error occurred: incompatible character encodings: ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8
2012-05-04 21:22:21.805786 feedpoller(61554) [INFO] controller.rb:115: Error occurred: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9/gems/sanitize-2.0.3/lib/sanitize.rb:116:in []=' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9/gems/sanitize-2.0.3/lib/sanitize.rb:116:inclean!'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9/gems/sanitize-2.0.3/lib/sanitize.rb:93:in clean' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9/gems/sanitize-2.0.3/lib/sanitize.rb:53:inclean'
/data/mpuk/feedpoller/lib/pollers/forum_poller.rb:35:in title_from_post_with_link' /data/mpuk/feedpoller/lib/pollers/forum_poller.rb:24:inblock in poll'
/data/mpuk/feedpoller/lib/pollers/forum_poller.rb:19:in each' /data/mpuk/feedpoller/lib/pollers/forum_poller.rb:19:inpoll'
/data/mpuk/feedpoller/lib/controller.rb:110:in block in poll' /data/mpuk/feedpoller/lib/controller.rb:109:ineach'
/data/mpuk/feedpoller/lib/controller.rb:109:in poll' /data/mpuk/feedpoller/libexec/feedpoller-daemon.rb:26:inblock in <top (required)>'
/data/mpuk/feedpoller/libexec/feedpoller-daemon.rb:25:in loop' /data/mpuk/feedpoller/libexec/feedpoller-daemon.rb:25:in<top (required)>'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in require' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9/gems/daemon-kit-0.1.8.2/lib/daemon_kit/application.rb:49:in start' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9/gems/daemon-kit-0.1.8.2/lib/daemon_kit/application.rb:24:inexec'
/data/mpuk/feedpoller/bin/feedpoller:8:in `

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Add settings toggle for tanoy annoucements

Tannoy messages (and service announcements) is the only thing you cannot toggle

Event-specific information should be pulled from config file

The title of the app, the header info, the popouts etc make reference to 'i45'. Pull this from hardcoded to being pulled from the /data/mpuk/config.yml file.

(from Unspec-irc)

Deal gracefully with forum permalinks being less than perma

Create API for connecting mobile apps to viewr

Need to produce/create an API that mobile apps (android/iphone) can connect to so we can have mobile versions of viewr natively for iphone/android.

Research push/streaming API's to allow this to happen performantly. Perhaps the bayeux protocol can continue to be used.

Integrate facebook opengraph api to connect mpuk facebook

Need to create a FacebookPoller for feedpoller daemon.

Provide visible 'hint' to user that live-updating is working

Some kind of spinning dial/flashing network activity light/etc to reassure the user that live updating is happening by default.

JS doesn't bind timeago or any other events to 'added' events

See https://github.com/kalleth/mpukviewr/blob/master/viewr/app/assets/javascripts/exp/view_manager.coffee line 34, bindElementItems accepts the 'string' of element rather than an element itself.

Mod the showmessage fn to do the $(element) step to turn it into a dom object then pass that around rather than the string representation in 'element'.

Viewr removes the last event regardless of feed size

Say <50 events are in teh feed (i.e. when you first start it before an event and there's 0) viewr when supplied with an event will 'create' an event and then 'remove' that event (because it's the last in the list).

Only remove the last event when there is >49 events in the feed.

When window focused, does not clear (X) 'unread' count from window title.

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