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by utunga 3925 days ago
For those curious about this 'tilbert' character - if you switch on 'show dead' it turns out he (allegedly) wrote the software in question.

Think the hellban must just be a glitch - so.. Amongst other things, Tilbert wrote:

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... my hope with open-source is people will help add to it. if you want to help, I'd love that!

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I see the hell ban, I'm posting all my replies at the bottom in a comment I'm editing - could somebody note this above?

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I think you guys/gals have a point [about the referral link to DigitalOcean] the referral link is gone. ;-)

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@coleifer: there was a sqlite branch, but it doesn't scale well to many-million record sets which is what I have been doing. the design of the software allows drop-in db replacement, it just lacks the code. I can't decide to go back and sqlite or to just make a web front-end.

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@captn3m0 I have an academic paper in revision that is an analysis of the alexa 1M list, I also have other projects i development.

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@snorrah: this was my first python project, so I went with the newest version. it's made a lot of things very difficult, especially porting to a web version.

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@linuxlizard: proxy is problem when you want to do a lot of concurrent tests, I usually load about 64 pages in tandem to get good speeds on large sets.

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@radmuzon: webdxray runs large batch jobs, so you can get lunch, and come back with all of pages analyzed. I know it does work on windows, and I apologize for not being able to provide directions...see comments above

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