Ghostsof1915 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 (edited) https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/capitals-reach-agreement-to-purchase-capfriendly-website/ The disturbing part of the article is: "You can definitely see why a team would want this infrastructure. After the transaction officially closes, the website will go dark." July 5, 2024 will be the last day? If the Captials are shutting it down. FUCK YOU CAPTIALS! Edited June 9 by Ghostsof1915 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeanSeanBean Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 What the absolute fuck? @Gatordo we have a backup website if this goes down. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pears Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 I have a new found dislike for the Capitals. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Long Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Good for whoever started it to cash out, opens a hole in the market for someone new. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spook007 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Long Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 4 minutes ago, spook007 said: Why? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DeNiro Posted June 9 Popular Post Share Posted June 9 Gonna be hard for Vegas to calculate their LTIR now! 13 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Drive-By Body Pierce Posted June 9 Popular Post Share Posted June 9 (edited) Perhaps a few of us could start a replacement. Scrape everything we can before CapFriendly goes dark, and go from there. Personally, I have a career's worth of coding and similar experience, from silicon level to production equipment programming to web applications and pretty much everything in between. Considering advertising and potentially selling it to a larger company, it could turn out to be quite lucrative. It really seems like it's just a glorified spreadsheet. Edited June 9 by Drive-By Body Pierce 3 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzan Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 1 minute ago, Drive-By Body Pierce said: Perhaps a few of us could start a replacement. Scrape everything we can before CapFriendly goes dark, and go from there. Personally, I have a career's worth of coding and similar experience, from silicon level to production equipment programming to web applications and pretty much everything in between. Considering advertising and potentially selling it to a larger company, it could turn out to be quite lucrative. It's a pretty good idea. Especially since you've additionally got the experience of watching CDC "shut down", and here we all are doing the same thing as before. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted June 9 Author Share Posted June 9 3 minutes ago, Drive-By Body Pierce said: Perhaps a few of us could start a replacement. Scrape everything we can before CapFriendly goes dark, and go from there. Personally, I have a career's worth of coding and similar experience, from silicon level to production equipment programming to web applications and pretty much everything in between. Considering advertising and potentially selling it to a larger company, it could turn out to be quite lucrative. It really seems like it's just a glorified spreadsheet. An easier to read, but yes glorified spreadsheet. The trick is keeping up with transactions to keep the information up to date. Personally I'd rather see the league buy the site. Keep who's running it now on for a year, and hire some employees so they know how to keep it maintained. You can have sponsors help pay for the site. As it's useful I'm sure not just for fans but people within the hockey organizations. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drive-By Body Pierce Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Ghostsof1915 said: An easier to read, but yes glorified spreadsheet. The trick is keeping up with transactions to keep the information up to date. Personally I'd rather see the league buy the site. Keep who's running it now on for a year, and hire some employees so they know how to keep it maintained. You can have sponsors help pay for the site. As it's useful I'm sure not just for fans but people within the hockey organizations. I would imagine the league has their own internal system. And, it's no secret that they aren't the most transparent at the best of times. So I don't know if that would happen under the Buttman regime. But yes, you are right, updating would be the biggest challenge. I see that as being another scraping exercise. Have say a list of two or three sites for each team, from which the site would gather data once a day, and be manually updated to start, possibly fully automated in the future. I feel like that scraping could populate a "new info" database, and a script using SQL could update the primary database. Edited June 9 by Drive-By Body Pierce 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canuck You Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 This shit never works, One gets shut down even more pop up. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted June 9 Author Share Posted June 9 1 minute ago, Canuck You said: This shit never works, One gets shut down even more pop up. Happened with CapGeek. RIP. 1 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drive-By Body Pierce Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 (edited) 1 minute ago, Ghostsof1915 said: Happened with CapGeek. RIP. I seem to remember the "owner" got very ill, and/or possibly passed away. Edited June 9 by Drive-By Body Pierce 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canuck You Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 2 minutes ago, Ghostsof1915 said: Happened with CapGeek. RIP. Kids are more rebellious these days. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewbieCanuckFan Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 1 hour ago, Pears said: I have a new found dislike for the Capitals. Dislike the Caps now more than Alex "ThePoutineFluffer" Oveckinpuke 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Crossbar Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 A step in the wrong direction. However, this will likely lead to something better and more innovative. It just means that control is ripe for disruption again and a new void to fill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted June 9 Author Share Posted June 9 10 minutes ago, Drive-By Body Pierce said: I seem to remember the "owner" got very ill, and/or possibly passed away. From the Sportsnet Article: "CapFriendly arrived in 2015, after its predecessor, CapGeek, closed. CapGeek’s creator, Matthew Wuest, who built an indispensable site, died of colon cancer in March 2015. CapFriendly became an excellent substitute for fans and media." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drive-By Body Pierce Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Does anyone here have a premium CapFriendly account? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted June 9 Author Share Posted June 9 Just now, Drive-By Body Pierce said: Does anyone here have a premium CapFriendly account? Great question, wonder what happens to folks who paid for a premium account? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesB Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 PuckPedia is not quite as good as Cap Friendly but it has most of the relevant information. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwarrior Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Of fucking course. I use that site all the time. Why do people insist on taking things I use or love away from me? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6of1_halfdozenofother Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 This is for Ted Leonsis and Monumental Sports & Entertainment: We now return you to your regularly scheduled CFF'ing. 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drive-By Body Pierce Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Well, I have the summer "off" to help my son with training and hockey camp. So I suppose I am in a pretty good position to take a run at this, even on my own. And if it's even reasonably decent, I know all you fantastic CFFers will check it out and blast me over any mistakes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket-68 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 (edited) 1 hour ago, Drive-By Body Pierce said: Perhaps a few of us could start a replacement. Scrape everything we can before CapFriendly goes dark, and go from there. Personally, I have a career's worth of coding and similar experience, from silicon level to production equipment programming to web applications and pretty much everything in between. Considering advertising and potentially selling it to a larger company, it could turn out to be quite lucrative. It really seems like it's just a glorified spreadsheet. Ya, not that hard to replicate functionality off of and improve. The real work is in keeping track of all the transactions that happen and feeding them into the DB in as close to real-time as possible - at the risk of stating the obvious. Edited June 9 by Rocket-68 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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