(PSA) GuyBlade's Manifest Completion Badges are back up.
Mar 6, 2017 2:39:32 GMT
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Post by dcal31 on Mar 6, 2017 2:39:32 GMT
For those who aren't sure what I'm referring to, look below in my signature line. Back in the dark days of the original BSN, GuyBlade put together a little program that would scrape info from the N7HQ and display in a concise and easy to read format. It made it easy to see someones experience at a glance without having to hunt through the N7HQ. The one downside is that every time Bioware tweaks something on their servers, it breaks the coding for the info scrapes.
When that happened, GuyBlade would fix it and get it back going. He drifted away for the forms, but would check in on the badge thread every so often and make sure it was still working. As time went on and signature links were banned from the old BSN, fixes became longer and farther between. Not that I'm criticizing him, five years is a long time to support something, especially when you did it for free and are hosting it yourself. Shortly after the forums closed, they went down again and there was no way to let him know.
However, just today I posted a comment and what should appear back in my signature line? All of my pretty badges! And just in time, as I unlocked my last UR today. If anyone is feeling nostalgic or just likes the look of them, the link to the generator is below. Just follow the instruction on the page and you can have some pretty badges of your very own!
One word of caution: It would behoove you to save a static image of the banners if you want them continuing forward. There are links for each badge to keep them updated with the latest stats, but if and when Bioware inevitably tweaks they servers again, it will break and there will be no information for it to display. I kicked myself for not saving the images last time they where up and was sure to do that first thing when I saw they were back. Anyways, wall of text later, I hope this is informative and any if any of the old BSN crowd happen to know GuyBlade outside the forums, please tell him that I for one still greatly appreciate his efforts and invite him to stop by the new forums.
www.blade.io/me3/
When that happened, GuyBlade would fix it and get it back going. He drifted away for the forms, but would check in on the badge thread every so often and make sure it was still working. As time went on and signature links were banned from the old BSN, fixes became longer and farther between. Not that I'm criticizing him, five years is a long time to support something, especially when you did it for free and are hosting it yourself. Shortly after the forums closed, they went down again and there was no way to let him know.
However, just today I posted a comment and what should appear back in my signature line? All of my pretty badges! And just in time, as I unlocked my last UR today. If anyone is feeling nostalgic or just likes the look of them, the link to the generator is below. Just follow the instruction on the page and you can have some pretty badges of your very own!
One word of caution: It would behoove you to save a static image of the banners if you want them continuing forward. There are links for each badge to keep them updated with the latest stats, but if and when Bioware inevitably tweaks they servers again, it will break and there will be no information for it to display. I kicked myself for not saving the images last time they where up and was sure to do that first thing when I saw they were back. Anyways, wall of text later, I hope this is informative and any if any of the old BSN crowd happen to know GuyBlade outside the forums, please tell him that I for one still greatly appreciate his efforts and invite him to stop by the new forums.
www.blade.io/me3/
