discussion Question for programmers.

[TheVampirate]

Is It possible to just essentially steal someone else's websites code or easily reverse engineer it? Specifically I'm talking about the Latest games on 95 Zone and making our latest updates work more like theirs. I know there are a lot of people here who dislike Zone but I think we can all agree their search, filter, ignore and other similar functions for games are better than on here. I'm asking because I tried ignoring a game here and it functionally did nothing. Then I watched the first game to see if it would do anything to the latest updates... it did not. I don't code and am not a tech guy but is what i'm asking for essentially a weekend job or is it like starting from scratch and hundreds of work hours getting it right.

 

[Augustus]

It's not trivial. The functionality of a website is composed of the front-end and the back-end part. The front-end is essentially running on your local computer and determines how stuff looks. As the code runs on your computer, you can look at it, copy it, etc. However, the backend is running on the server, and the whole filtering/searching/storing data about games part is there. As your computer only gets the results of the code, but not the code itself, you can't just look at the code.

 

[ツSisterSexualシ]

Would be great to parse their games section and copy-paste all stuff here
All their NON-loli games + our loli's = sounds good imo

 

[TheVampirate]

Would be great to parse their games section and copy-paste all stuff here
All their NON-loli games + our loli's = sounds good imo

that's kind of like ripping a site? That wouldn't be such a bad idea if it worked. I wonder if there are any coder sites that have a good database search function coded there that they're literally giving away. it makes sense that all the functionality is backend stuff people cant steal

 

[jrbnw2]

that's kind of like ripping a site? That wouldn't be such a bad idea if it worked. I wonder if there are any coder sites that have a good database search function coded there that they're literally giving away. it makes sense that all the functionality is backend stuff people cant steal

It'd probably be bit easier than some sites as they have decent search APIs. Just open up the development tab and watch the network while you're using the search page and you can see the JSON coming back, which is simple to parse and script. You'd just need to also find a dump of the tag Ids. Parsing out the download links would be harder, but it's just html and they follow a specific template. The hardest part will just be to not get banned while you run the scan.

But back to the search implementation: you actually can't just see how it's implemented in the backend. I can see how it could work (in this case it's likely using an Elasticsearch cluster), but still requires backend development and there's an added cost for hosting. It's definitely not just a weekend thing.

 

[iszzz]

It'd probably be bit easier than some sites as they have decent search APIs. Just open up the development tab and watch the network while you're using the search page and you can see the JSON coming back, which is simple to parse and script. You'd just need to also find a dump of the tag Ids. Parsing out the download links would be harder, but it's just html and they follow a specific template. The hardest part will just be to not get banned while you run the scan.

But back to the search implementation: you actually can't just see how it's implemented in the backend. I can see how it could work (in this case it's likely using an Elasticsearch cluster), but still requires backend development and there's an added cost for hosting. It's definitely not just a weekend thing.

Probably it is not Elasticsearch, but Sorl because the part with search is left in php. The search interface of Zone doesn't look complicated, although achieving such a response speed will require some effort

 

[Firegoose00]

front-end wise I think it would be quite easy to rip no?

 

[TittyCommittee]

Is It possible to just essentially steal someone else's websites code or easily reverse engineer it? Specifically I'm talking about the Latest games on 95 Zone and making our latest updates work more like theirs. I know there are a lot of people here who dislike Zone but I think we can all agree their search, filter, ignore and other similar functions for games are better than on here. I'm asking because I tried ignoring a game here and it functionally did nothing. Then I watched the first game to see if it would do anything to the latest updates... it did not. I don't code and am not a tech guy but is what i'm asking for essentially a weekend job or is it like starting from scratch and hundreds of work hours getting it right.

front-end wise I think it would be quite easy to rip no?

For Front-end, depends on framework really but fairly easy with tools.

For Backend, again, depends on how did they implement it. But for a site like F95, you would need to know how or what they are storing data to fully understand their system. Which won't be easy you would need to have access to back-end accounts though phishing and such.

 

[shermystevie]

I have thought about this, because their search functionality is quite smooth. I would bet that they have some sort of database running in the back-end with a table of the game/comic/whatever, link to the article, associated tags, author, etc.. Then the searching functions calls the database in the backend with an sql query (or whatever) and returns the result. We aren't talking millions of records here so it wouldn't require anything too fancy but that is how I would do it if I engineered it

 

[Vulky]

Simplest move is to pay the person who developed the extension for F-95-zone to make it again for LC.