The 7th Suggestion Directory

SavetheAtlantic

I have a spreadsheet of every topic in the Suggestions forum posted on at least once in the past year. I'm not sure how I could share it though.

imfh

SavetheAtlantic wrote:
I have a spreadsheet of every topic in the Suggestions forum posted on at least once in the past year. I'm not sure how I could share it though.

I could pull the data from ScratchDB if I wanted it. I'm not sure that I do, though. It would be very difficult to write a description for every topic and it would also take up a lot of room.

I'm going to stick with the previous rule of at least 2 pages and must have duplicates if not 4 pages for now. With the script, it wouldn't be hard to get rid of those rules, but adding topics with just 1 or 2 posts isn't necessarily a good thing.

SavetheAtlantic

imfh wrote:
SavetheAtlantic wrote:
I have a spreadsheet of every topic in the Suggestions forum posted on at least once in the past year. I'm not sure how I could share it though.
I could pull the data from ScratchDB if I wanted it. I'm not sure that I do, though. It would be very difficult to write a description for every topic and it would also take up a lot of room.

I'm going to stick with the previous rule of at least 2 pages and must have duplicates if not 4 pages for now. With the script, it wouldn't be hard to get rid of those rules, but adding topics with just 1 or 2 posts isn't necessarily a good thing.

Of course. I scraped the data from the forum pages themselves, so you can sort by the number of replies. The issue is; it doesn't come with links and it doesn't specify if the topics are closed. I just thought it might be helpful since the directory really hasn't been expanded much to include newer suggestions in the past few years.

roofogato

new dictionary ooooo

Basilikos

Leaving my mark… this is an historic moment.
It's an honour being on the second page of a soon to be sticky.

PGBFLITE6373

Jeez, Ive witnessed how amny suggestions directories now? 4?

eikh2

Birth of a Directory

IceCreamTub

Oh sweet a new potential sticky

Crispydogs101

This is actually good. Hope this gets sticked!

medians

Crispydogs101 wrote:
This is actually good. Hope this gets sticked!

Well.. congrats on sticky.

Last edited by medians (Jan. 21, 2023 22:59:42)

medians

medians wrote:
Edit:
Topic: https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/discuss/topic/29255/
Description: A suggestion about adding layers to the pen.
Keywords: pen, block, layer, draw
Duplicates: 458363, 532007, 547749

Last edited by medians (Jan. 22, 2023 03:06:41)

imfh

medians wrote:
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I wrote the script to import the old directory, but I haven’t adjusted it for posts made in this topic yet. I’ll add this once that’s done.

k0d3rrr

Whoa, congratulations on owning the new Suggestion Directory!

An0therRand0mC0der

imfh wrote:
Adding topics

If you would like a topic to be added, make a post containing something exactly like the below. It must match exactly because I use a script to generate the topic. I plan to make a project which will make this easier.

Links to topics can either be a full url or just the number at the end. The suggestion must have at least 2 pages. You do not need to link duplicates if the topic has at least 4 pages.
Topic: https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/discuss/topic/657522/
Description: Short, one line description of topic.
Keywords: keywords, separated, by, commas
Duplicates: 212472, 382706

I feel like this could backfire somehow, like someone puts a joke topic or something.

SavetheAtlantic

An0therRand0mC0der wrote:
I feel like this could backfire somehow, like someone puts a joke topic or something.

Do you genuinely think imfh won't just check it out first before adding it

imfh

An0therRand0mC0der wrote:
imfh wrote:
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I feel like this could backfire somehow, like someone puts a joke topic or something.

The script isn’t fully automatic. It reads the forum, updates topics, and regenerates the directory, then I have to edit each post and paste the new content. If someone adds a joke topic or something, I can just remove it when I run the script.

If people abuse the script, then I’ll have to do something about it, but until then, it will make things a whole lot easier.

Last edited by imfh (Jan. 22, 2023 04:01:13)

PGBFLITE6373

I have a project that does “Adding topics” as a form basically, just needs a little changing. (it's pretty simple) However, it uses the center tags to simulate enters, because enters don't work in lists. I would like to post it, however, would the center tags mess with the script?

cookieclickerer33

New stick!

SaltyTree

I'm here on page 2!!!

imfh

PGBFLITE6373 wrote:
I have a project that does “Adding topics” as a form basically, just needs a little changing. (it's pretty simple) However, it uses the center tags to simulate enters, because enters don't work in lists. I would like to post it, however, would the center tags mess with the script?

I think I finalized how the parsing will work. Try the project with this regex code. It should show the topic id, description, category, etc. in the sidebar.

https://regex101.com/r/EKKTK5/1

If anyone is interested, here the regex used. I recommend pasting this into VSCode with Python syntax formatting since it should provide highlighting for the regex.

SCAN_PATTERN = r"\s*(?:\[center\]\[/center\])?".join((
    r"\[b\](?:(?P<action>\w*?) )?Topic:\[/b\] *.*?(?P<topic>\d+).*?",
    r"(?:\[b\]Reason:\[/b\] (?P<reason>.+))?",
    r"(?:\[b\]Category:\[/b\] (?P<category>.+))?",
    r"(?:\[b\]Description:\[/b\] (?P<description>.+))?",
    r"(?:\[b\]Keywords:\[/b\] (?P<keywords>.+))?",
    r"(?:\[b\]Duplicates:\[/b\] (?P<duplicates>.+))?",
))

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