My weekend project
Games
text adventure bot
SHOW HN2011
25points
3comments
#423of 1,097 in 2011
Top 39%of 2011 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
1 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 1 comments about the project.
Idea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Cool hack
From 1 comment
Personally I think it was a cool hack, makes me wonder if there is an operations infrastructure idea in there somewhere. Tweet out to all your servers "hey get the latest update…
ChuckMcM on HN
Objections
Hit Twitter's daily tweet limit, bot is only temporarily up
From 2 comments
Aaand looks like I went over twitter's daily tweet limit. I didn't know that even existed. Its api says statuses/update is not rate limited. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted…
dgouldin on HNThe rate limit has been increased a bit but still remains. So, the bot is up for now, but it's not really a solution, just a temporary fix. Go get your nostalgia on while it…
dgouldin on HN