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Re: The Great Highscore Archive
Posted: 2018.04.25 (23:17)
by ska
I downloaded and backed it up on my
Dropbox and
Box account for extra redundancy.
Thanks for doing that. Would it be possible to see, say, the last 10 0ths to be taken (including dates)? I'm just curious. I'd also be interested in seeing some kind of chart (similar to Hendor and Seifer's) that tracks highscore activity over time. (how many new 0ths in a given day, week, and month, etc.)
Edit: Zapkt, do you think you can combine and organise the two archives to merge with Eddy's previous compilation?
Re: The Great Highscore Archive
Posted: 2018.04.27 (16:21)
by zapkt
ska wrote:
I downloaded and backed it up on my
Dropbox and
Box account for extra redundancy.
Huh, it seems I ended up uploading the wrong file, you don't need to keep this (see below).
Thanks for doing that. Would it be possible to see, say, the last 10 0ths to be taken (including dates)? I'm just curious.
Done:
http://ploudseeker.com:5000/latest0th
As you can see it's pretty inactive nowadays.
I'd also be interested in seeing some kind of chart (similar to Hendor and Seifer's) that tracks highscore activity over time. (how many new 0ths in a given day, week, and month, etc.)
That would be highly inaccurate as the number of files we have per year vary wildly. We would miss plenty of "temporary" scores.
Edit: Zapkt, do you think you can combine and organise the two archives to merge with Eddy's previous compilation?
Done, on the appropriate topic:
http://forum.droni.es/viewtopic.php?f=2 ... 79#p176979
Re: The Great Highscore Archive
Posted: 2018.08.09 (09:47)
by Raif
I spotted a cheater which had been missed: CagedSparrow on 5-2.
Re: The Great Highscore Archive
Posted: 2018.08.11 (16:15)
by zapkt
Raif wrote:I spotted a cheater which had been missed: CagedSparrow on 5-2.
Thanks, removed
Re: The Great Highscore Archive
Posted: 2020.06.01 (21:39)
by zapkt
Hi all,
The archive website has been down for a few months now. It's a bit of work to debug why the application crashes and update the code to run on modern software versions. I'm not sure there's any point to work on this if it is barely used. Please leave a message here if you want this back.
Re: The Great Highscore Archive
Posted: 2020.06.02 (00:18)
by EddyMataGallos
I tried to access it recently to update my collection of highscore files, since I last updated it in mid-2017. However, you're absolutely right in that the activity is so low now that it's probably not worth it to go through the trouble of revising the code. If you still keep the files, could you zip them and upload them? I can see the last pack you published is from 2018 (
https://ploudseeker.com/files/docs/2018 ... s_files.7z).
Re: The Great Highscore Archive
Posted: 2020.06.02 (19:43)
by zapkt
Sure, here are the latest files:
https://ploudseeker.com/files/docs/2020 ... s_files.7z
I ended up trying to put it back online all day, but I think it's really not working because of a bug in one of the libraries I'm using. I'm planning to move this server to a new machine soon, so I'll see if more recent software versions fix the bug by then. Anyway, at least now it's working with python3.
I see that highscores are actually not completely dead! It seems the lockdown has inspired some people.
Re: The Great Highscore Archive
Posted: 2020.06.03 (07:20)
by ska
zapkt wrote: ↑2020.06.02 (19:43)
Sure, here are the latest files:
https://ploudseeker.com/files/docs/2020 ... s_files.7z
I ended up trying to put it back online all day, but I think it's really not working because of a bug in one of the libraries I'm using. I'm planning to move this server to a new machine soon, so I'll see if more recent software versions fix the bug by then. Anyway, at least now it's working with python3.
I see that highscores are actually not completely dead! It seems the lockdown has inspired some people.
A
lockdown, you say?

Re: The Great Highscore Archive
Posted: 2020.06.06 (21:38)
by EddyMataGallos
Thanks zapkt, downloaded ;) Also yeah, as can be inferred from ska's post, he organized a highscoring contest across different versions of N, valuing N highscores the most, and this brought some activity back to N.
Re: The Great Highscore Archive
Posted: 2020.06.07 (08:54)
by ska
EddyMataGallos wrote: ↑2020.06.06 (21:38)
Thanks zapkt, downloaded ;) Also yeah, as can be inferred from ska's post, he organized a highscoring contest across different versions of N, valuing N highscores the most, and this brought some activity back to N.
1.4, to be specific. lol
Re: The Great Highscore Archive
Posted: 2020.07.26 (16:34)
by zapkt
I received my new machine. The Great Highscore Archive is back online, faster than before!
http://ploudseeker.com:5000/latest0th
Re: The Great Highscore Archive
Posted: 2020.07.26 (16:48)
by zapkt
New link because I just activated SSL:
https://ploudseeker.com:5000 (I wish I could edit my post but the forum is so buggy)
Re: The Great Highscore Archive
Posted: 2020.07.27 (15:37)
by zapkt
Some more updates. I had time to spend today, so I:
- made cosmetic changes to make the application prettier
- fixed some bugs that made the app randomly crash
- added 2 graphs about top players getting new 0th/top-20 scores each year. Have a look!
https://ploudseeker.com:5000/stats
If you have ideas about cool new graphs/tables I could add, feel free to suggest them!
Edit:
Oops, I accidentally added hackers back, the app is down again for a few hours so I can remove them OK now
Re: The Great Highscore Archive
Posted: 2020.07.29 (02:56)
by ska
This is glorious. Well done.
What's particularly interesting is that there hasn't been this much activity for top-20s since 2016 (and 0ths since 2015!)—and the year's only two-thirds done!
Re: The Great Highscore Archive
Posted: 2020.07.29 (04:05)
by EddyMataGallos
Nice! Thanks so much for the effort and for putting it back online.
I wish we had done the same for N++, it's been out for 4 years already and even though we've had a highscoring bot from the beginning, we've not been storing daily snapshots of the scores. I started working on this almost as soon as the game was released, but I left after a few months and when I returned there was already a Discord bot taking care of NHigh's functionalities, but without the snapshot features, so I kept delaying this idea. I may still do it at some point even though we've "lost" 4 years of history.
Re: The Great Highscore Archive
Posted: 2020.07.30 (14:56)
by zapkt
EddyMataGallos wrote: ↑2020.07.29 (04:05)
when I returned there was already a Discord bot taking care of NHigh's functionalities, but without the snapshot features, so I kept delaying this idea. I may still do it at some point even though we've "lost" 4 years of history.
But isn't the bot storing scores in some kind of file or database? From then on, saving this file on a daily basis is very few work
Re: The Great Highscore Archive
Posted: 2020.08.02 (12:15)
by ska
zapkt wrote: ↑2020.07.30 (14:56)
EddyMataGallos wrote: ↑2020.07.29 (04:05)
when I returned there was already a Discord bot taking care of NHigh's functionalities, but without the snapshot features, so I kept delaying this idea. I may still do it at some point even though we've "lost" 4 years of history.
But isn't the bot storing scores in some kind of file or database? From then on, saving this file on a daily basis is very few work
To expound on this point, can't you just go through the archive using a data-harvesting bot?
Re: The Great Highscore Archive
Posted: 2020.08.20 (17:22)
by EddyMataGallos
In response to zapkt, yeah it is pretty simple to do, specially if you just make a daily copy of the db, although that's very suboptimal because the db is much bigger, containing other things like userlevels and ranking histories (which is the only thing that's been saved for "history archival"). That's why I want to implement a more efficient method, probably by creating a differential table on the db. It's not hard, I just have so many projects at hand :P
In response to ska, I'm not sure what "archive" you mean, that's precisely what we've not been saving all this time. The database only holds the most recent scores for each board, which is updated daily. The only bit of history that has been saved is the rankings themselves, which is something.
Re: The Great Highscore Archive
Posted: 2020.08.22 (07:29)
by ska
EddyMataGallos wrote: ↑2020.08.20 (17:22)
In response to zapkt, yeah it is pretty simple to do, specially if you just make a daily copy of the db, although that's very suboptimal because the db is much bigger, containing other things like userlevels and ranking histories (which is the only thing that's been saved for "history archival"). That's why I want to implement a more efficient method, probably by creating a differential table on the db. It's not hard, I just have so many projects at hand :P
In response to ska, I'm not sure what "archive" you mean, that's precisely what we've not been saving all this time. The database only holds the most recent scores for each board, which is updated daily. The only bit of history that has been saved is the rankings themselves, which is something.
Oh, so it's just the scores and not the demo data itself? That's unfortunate.
Re: The Great Highscore Archive
Posted: 2022.03.13 (17:49)
by ska
I wonder what has changed in the last 7 years or so.