"EpicTracker" - Forum Staff Tracker

**Relics** · 06-11-2010, 05:43 AM

Hi everyone. Please excuse the first post, i'm not just some spam bot here to make life difficult!

Introducing EpicTracker
A nice way to track (stalk?) your favourite Epic staff members! The custom script scrapes the forums to provide an index of the last 100 forum posts made by Epic staff members. It's a really neat (well, I think it is) way to get a quick overview of the most recent developer activity.

How do I use it?
It's pretty simple. Just visit the Tracker home page to get the most recent list of developer posts. When you find a post that you'd like to read in full detail, hit the "goto" link to return to these forums.

It updates on a rolling user basis. As an average, you may see a lag of up to an hour between a post being made on the forums and it appearing on the tracker - although it'll usually be much much less.

How can I help?
There's two things I need some assistance with:
1st) I need a list of what users to track (ie. a list of the Staff accounts).

The following accounts are being tracked, let me know who i've missed (or if i've accidentally included someone who's not a staff member!):

Currently tracked:
Flak
Joe Wilcox
joegraf
Rod Fergusson
Lee Perry
crowl
MikeCapps
Pariahman
-=¤willhaven¤=-
Trooper TK409
CliffyB
Steve Polge
weephun
Quinn DelHoyo
raczilla

2nd) Test it and give me feedback! I'd love any feedback, bug reports or feature suggestions you can give.

Thanks to Comrade John for providing feedback from early-on.

Links: EpicTracker Index, About

EDIT: This intends to serve a slightly different purpose than the Staff Tracker that Flak's apparently been looking at implementing. From my experience, staff trackers usually just place icons next to threads with staff member posts. Useful at times but still means you need to sift through several forums and threads if you want to know what developers have been saying - EpicTracker gives a one-stop link to quickly get you up to date. Hence, they can both co-exist peacefully to help achieve the same goal in different ways

**Comrade John** · 06-11-2010, 09:37 AM

I really like this nifty thing. =D

**Shotty Rasta** · 06-11-2010, 11:19 AM

Very very nifty

**Simburgur** · 06-11-2010, 07:42 PM

Awesome! One request: Sans Serif

**Relics** · 06-12-2010, 11:02 PM

Thanks for the feedback. I'll be looking at performing visual tweaks in the next update or so (hopefully alongside the RSS support).

Ultimately I want it to be quick to load and easy to review so I wouldn't expect any massive changes from the current design, i'll certainly take the font suggestion into consideration though

[I'm not a huge fan of Times New Roman either, it just happens to be the default]

**Relics** · 07-01-2010, 06:36 AM

Updated to include an RSS feed

http://relicszero.net/epicTracker/rss/epicPosts.xml

**Skred** · 07-01-2010, 04:35 PM

Stalk em lol!

**Relics** · 07-01-2010, 09:02 PM

Updated again to fix a flaw in the RSS - now correctly strips invalid characters.

**Comrade John** · 07-01-2010, 10:27 PM

Relics, you are awesome!

**Bizkitdoh** · 07-02-2010, 12:55 AM

Hahaha, this is awesome!

**Method Man** · 07-02-2010, 01:35 AM

this is pretty cool. nice job man!

**Comrade John** · 03-31-2011, 03:56 PM

I have asked relics if he could update this with raczilla. I don't know if he is still active or not. I hope so.

**Relics** · 03-31-2011, 04:41 PM

Done

Let me know if there are any other Epic staff members who need to be added!

**Comrade John** · 03-31-2011, 07:04 PM

Originally Posted by Relics

Done

Let me know if there are any other Epic staff members who need to be added!

Thanks a lot! I appreciate it. I'm not entirely sure if anyone else uses it, but if they do, I'm sure they appreciate it too!

**Milky Pirate** · 03-31-2011, 07:33 PM

Oh wow what an age we live in. I'm used to stalking the old fashioned way. Maybe you could add Quinn DelHoyo.

**Flak** · 03-31-2011, 07:36 PM

Thanks Relics!

**Relics** · 04-02-2011, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by Milky-Pirate

Maybe you could add Quinn DelHoyo.

Thanks for the suggestion Milky-Pirate. Quinn has been added!

And no problem Flak, glad to help out ^_^

EDIT: It appears that the tracker wasn't picking up some of the more recently created forums - this should now be fixed.

**Bugz** · 04-02-2011, 09:39 AM

cool stuff

**Relics** · 04-28-2011, 09:12 AM

Sneak peek.

http://relicszero.net/playground/tra...pic_mobile.php

This Image Was Automatically Resized by using the Screenshot Tag. Click to view the full version

Let me know how it goes on your iPhone 4 and non-iOS devices

**Relics** · 04-11-2012, 06:40 AM

Hi everyone,

After a bit of downtime due to incompatibility with changes to the Epic Forums, I'm now in the process of getting the tracker up and running again (thanks Comrade John for the reminder). Which developers am I missing from the list below?

Flak
Joe Wilcox
joegraf
Rod Fergusson
Lee Perry
crowl
MikeCapps
Pariahman
-=¤willhaven¤=-
Trooper TK409
CliffyB
Steve Polge
weephun
Quinn DelHoyo
raczilla

**Sly.** · 04-11-2012, 06:59 AM

What about Troy McClure (not sure if it's written correctly and what position he has nor who he really is

)?
And does Tim Sweeney have an account? If so, you would have to add it too.

**Crusha K. Rool** · 04-12-2012, 03:53 AM

ffejnosliw aka Jeff Wilson

**Crusha K. Rool** · 04-12-2012, 03:57 AM

ffejnosliw aka Jeff Wilson
TroyMcClure
AaronJones
nick_p (he's only posting in a restricted forum section but it won't hurt having him in the list nonetheless)

**Relics** · 04-12-2012, 05:38 AM

Thanks Crusha and Sly. I've added ffejnosliw, TroyMcClure and AaronJones - you should start seeing their posts shortly.

Crusha, I can't find nick_p's profile page - can you please link it? I need his forum ID (the number in the URL of his profile page) to be able to track his posts.

**Crusha K. Rool** · 04-12-2012, 07:31 AM

http://forums.epicgames.com/members/1504400-nick_p

**Crusha K. Rool** · 04-12-2012, 07:37 AM

Sry for double post, the edit function is broken somehow.

Don't forget about Mark Rein: http://forums.epicgames.com/members/2-Mark-Rein

And since he has the ID number 2, it was not hard to find the number 1 by editing the URL.

http://forums.epicgames.com/members/1-Tim_Sweeney

**Crusha K. Rool** · 04-12-2012, 07:38 AM

Also not forgetting about Cher! We love Cher!

http://forums.epicgames.com/members/1352211-Cher

**Relics** · 04-16-2012, 06:33 AM

Thanks Crusha. All added.

Here's the updated list of people currently monitored/tracked:

Tim_Sweeney
Mark Rein
Trooper TK409
Joe Wilcox
joegraf
-=¤willhaven¤=-
MikeCapps
Rod Fergusson
CliffyB
Flak
crowl
weephun
Steve Polge
ffejnos
Lee Perry
AaronJones
Pariahman
Quinn DelHoyo
TroyMcClure
Cher
raczilla
nick_p

**xKiLL ZoNEx** · 04-30-2012, 07:32 PM

Pretty cool. I don't know if you want to add user mods but don't forget about *Zap*.

**Crusha K. Rool** · 05-21-2012, 03:42 AM

Another one: Rexoli
http://forums.epicgames.com/members/1496718-rexoli

Sometimes I wish there was such a tool for other forums as well.

EDIT: And Cher is such a huge spammer that you barely get to see the other staff in that tracker. :>

**DarkAp89** · 05-22-2012, 02:04 PM

Originally Posted by Crusha K. Rool

EDIT: And Cher is such a huge spammer that you barely get to see the other staff in that tracker. :>

LMAO! If Cher see this... :P :P

**Cher** · 05-23-2012, 08:33 AM

Originally Posted by Crusha K. Rool

Another one: Rexoli
http://forums.epicgames.com/members/1496718-rexoli

Sometimes I wish there was such a tool for other forums as well.

EDIT: And Cher is such a huge spammer that you barely get to see the other staff in that tracker. :>

LOL!!