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Need some tech insight on FurAffinity's naming scheme. (If you like math enigmas, you will like this ;)
If you focus too much on something, you might miss the obvious answer.
Download link numbers are UNIX timestamps.
Still. Submitting two different images at the same time may yield interesting results.
I'm trying to add a new functionality to the bot, namely, extract the original submission link from a furaffinity 'download' link.
Normal furaffinity links are like:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/[NUMBER]/Where [NUMBER] is a sequentially ever-increasing natural number.
The latest submission will have the previous submission number + 1. For example (May contain porn):
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14309080/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14309081/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14309082/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14309083/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14309084/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14309085/
you get the idea
Each submission has a download link of the form:
http://d.facdn.net/art/[AUTHOR]/[NUMBER].[NAME].[EXT]where [NUMBER] is an never-decreasing (numbers can be repeated, but not descend. See case in the first two links), not-sequential natural number. For the previous posts, those links are:
http://d.facdn.net/art/readun/1408467242.readun_20140801_131753.jpg
http://d.facdn.net/art/lunalupin/1408467242.lunalupin_new_canvas.jpg
http://d.facdn.net/art/ravenpaws/1408467246.ravenpaws_freeych.png
http://d.facdn.net/art/juano/1408467254.juano_tumblr_47.png
http://d.facdn.net/art/drayko-okami/1408467268.drayko-okami_uss_singularity_2.jpg
http://d.facdn.net/art/ahrikitsune/1408467282.ahrikitsune_boooty.png
What I'm really trying do you may ask?
From a download link [NUMBER] i want to calculate the submission [NUMBER], or at least a close enough approximation, so I can get the original submission link from a download link.
In programmer's terms, a function which will return a list of possible/probable submission IDs from a download link number.
Interesting properties of the download links.
- Mentioned before, they seem to be ever-increasing except an increment-by-zero (same number) is allowed.
- The distance between two consecutive links vary, in the dataset I've used, from 0 up to 15. That means the number of a download link can be anything between the same number as the previous link to the previous link number + 15.
- This trend goes back (at least) to 2008 so there is no noticeable * cummulative* effect.
Here's a little python script with submission link numbers and the respective download numbers and some properties being calculated if you feel like playing arround. edit: cummulative difference is calculated backwards, so latest is zero
The repeated IDs might be a race condition where two submissions end being uploaded at the same time will get the same download ID. If any of you did threading somewhere in their life will know the pain in the ass it is to debug this :P
If two submissions, by the same author, with the same name end being uploaded at the same time ... One of the submissions might replace the other.
submitted by fa_mirror[link] [9 comments]
Animation: ‘Thunder and the House of Magic’
A New Dawn
Here is a Cinematic from the rather furry game League of Legends and I would swear the design of the Lion reminds me of the more recent Aslan art from Mongoose Traveller RPG source books.
Also the Kitsune is extremely cool in that Neko girl sort of way.
Furry Fandom = Metal (music genere) Fandom
I find myself wondering, "Hmm... I wonder how many sub-categories of furries are there?" And then I wondered the same about metal a while back. So I came here today to ask /r/furry how many sub-fandoms are there in the furry fandom (i.e. bronies, anthros, etc.)
submitted by ShadowofColosuss708[link] [14 comments]
FRC Funding
So the FRC team I'm a part of is badly in need of a new mascot costume, and since no mascot manufacturers actually create Liger costumes (Aside from this terrifying abomination of southeast asia), we've decided that our best bet would be to commission a costume from somebody in the fandom.
The only major issue here is that of the people we looked at, we'd need about $5,000 (For two costumes) and that's a fair amount of money. I figured that since you fuzzbutts are generally pretty nice people, It'd be worth shamelessly begging kindly asking you for a little bit of money to help us buy these costumes.
We have a dogecoin wallet set up now, so if you want to help us reach to 40 million doge it takes to equate 5 grand, that'd be nice DCVKnmpGmAv3FUxkTGim87Q1F91fT9f8YH
Edit: Here's our website if you want to learn a little bit more about us
Edit 2: Dogetipbot also works now, so we've got that going for us, which is nice
Please don't downvote the shit out of me
submitted by Arkazex[link] [2 comments]
Review: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Mutagen Mayhem DVD
Should She Tell the Other Woman that He Hit on Her First?
KITO - Play and Create Your Own 3D Animal MMO
Three comic book reviews: Pull List #22 (‘Howard the Duck’)
Review: ‘Trick or Treat’, edited by Ianus J. Wolf
A month ago I started drawing a the steam group's group picture. The good news is I got many people in. The bad is I doubt I'm halfway done.
What’s Black and Yellow, But Not A Bee?
Everyone’s favorite hard-boiled black cat detective has been busy lately — and those of us on this side of the pond are seeing more of his adventures thanks to the folks at Dark Horse Press. Now they’re bringing us Blacksad: Amarillo. “Hardboiled feline detective John Blacksad is back in the latest tour de force from the multiple-award winning duo of writer Juan Díaz Canales and artist Juanjo Guarnido. Taking a much-needed break after the events of A Silent Hell, Blacksad lands a side job driving a rich Texan’s prized yellow Cadillac Eldorado across 1950s America, hitting the back roads from New Orleans to Tulsa. But before long, the car is stolen and Blacksad finds himself mixed up in another murder, with roughneck bikers, a shifty lawyer, one down-and-out Beat generation writer, and some sinister circus folk. When John Blacksad goes on the road, trouble is dead ahead.” Find out more at Comics Beat, before it comes out in hardcover this October.
image c. 2014 Dark Horse Press
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