It's dangerous to play alone... Take this.
terminal.caethyrawr.com/Posted Jan 8, 2013, 2:16 PM UTC
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terminal.caethyrawr.com
Jaw. On. The Floor. Stickied. Now.
Time to replace the "See Who's Playing Today". Also let me know what I can do to help this.
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Thanks <3
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this is great! not only do you skip the step of having to comment to tell people you're playing, you can actually see who is online! thanks for this! I will be using this every time I get on! :-D
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could you categorize the names into the regions so it is easier to tell who is online in my area?
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Will do.
Before that, I want to make it a lot more responsive and easier to work with.
I've already done the work server-side - Just need to rewrite client-side to actually use it properly. I have to do some work first though. You can expect an update this weekend!
Look at that pretty cache! http://i.imgur.com/mhv3P.png
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Thanks for this. Very cool.
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Great work man. EDIT: I should mention though that I'm not showing up on this list even though I'm online and registered.
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I might be missing one of the zzzHalo contacts. Which one do you use? I'll add it immediately.
edit: Yep, gotcha. The NA rosters were overwriting each other with the highest numbered one. Should load everything now.
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HaloNAC
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Fixed, and drastically increased the number of people. NAC was overwritten by NAC2.
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Cool. Looks like its coming along. Though now it shows me as NAE instead of NAC. Haha. Good work nonetheless.
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Firstly, great work! I'm also having the same problem though. I have both NAW and NAC added and I'm on the roster, but I can't see myself on the list.
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Odd... PM me sometime, I'll see what I can do.
Did notice we're on NAE4 nowadays. Added it to the roster.
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Nice work. Very cool.
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cool.
cool cool cool.
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awesome.
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This is bloody fantastic!
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How do I join this? Also, I love you. No homo.
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As long as you're on the roster and have one of the zzzHalo... contacts in your friendlist, you should automatically show up. The sidebar of this reddit has a link here
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(She's a GIRL) :-O
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In that case, I revise my previous statement to the following: I love you. ahaha
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This is great and benefits the whole community. I've registered on the roster but don't see my name on the list when I'm online. Any ideas why that may be? (Euro zone player, GT: DefensiveSpider)
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What should we name the Cortana Pony...? I was thinking mAIne.
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Shows a list of currently online people on the roster. Give it a few seconds to load.
Please keep in mind that the API isn't official, and I put this together pretty haphazardly. I'll spend the time making a proper caching system to speed it up if it proves popular enough. Be mindful of refreshing too often; It's not nice for the server.
edit: Thanks for the gold, whoever did it! I'll be sure to keep working on this. It's very bare-bones as of now. I'll have some time in the weekend to smooth it out for you!
Is this just for people online or people specifically playing Halo 4?
Just online at the moment. Pretty trivial to change it - The JSON already contains information on what the person is currently playing.
There be any way to see a players current activity in Halo 4? To see if they are playing Matchmaking or custom games.
Great tool however btw!
Afraid not :(
The page actually already has access to information about what the current activity is, but this isn't specific enough. "Playing Halo 4" is the most specific it can actually get, no information about customs or matchmaking.
I'll update this in the future to be smoother and more useful, but I can't access that, sorry!
I would definitely like to see a version that lists only players playing Halo 4, for the simple fact that nobody will be changing games to play with a random person, and random people will be the only ones to really use this. (By random I mean a player they don't recognize but that might be from the Terminal.)
Say please :)
Colour-marked players that are online on Halo 4. I'll mark Halo 3 and Reach later.