Ghostsof1915 Posted June 9 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
MeanSeanBean Posted June 9 Posted June 9 What the absolute fuck? @Gatordo we have a backup website if this goes down. 2 1 Quote
Bob Long Posted June 9 Posted June 9 Good for whoever started it to cash out, opens a hole in the market for someone new. 1 Quote
Popular Post DeNiro Posted June 9 Popular Post Posted June 9 Gonna be hard for Vegas to calculate their LTIR now! 13 1 Quote
Popular Post Drive-By Body Pierce Posted June 9 Popular Post 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
nzan Posted June 9 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
Ghostsof1915 Posted June 9 Author 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
Drive-By Body Pierce Posted June 9 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
Canuck You Posted June 9 Posted June 9 This shit never works, One gets shut down even more pop up. 1 1 Quote
Ghostsof1915 Posted June 9 Author 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
Drive-By Body Pierce Posted June 9 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
Canuck You Posted June 9 Posted June 9 2 minutes ago, Ghostsof1915 said: Happened with CapGeek. RIP. Kids are more rebellious these days. 1 Quote
NewbieCanuckFan Posted June 9 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
Dr. Crossbar Posted June 9 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
Ghostsof1915 Posted June 9 Author 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
Drive-By Body Pierce Posted June 9 Posted June 9 Does anyone here have a premium CapFriendly account? Quote
Ghostsof1915 Posted June 9 Author 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
JamesB Posted June 9 Posted June 9 PuckPedia is not quite as good as Cap Friendly but it has most of the relevant information. 1 Quote
gwarrior Posted June 9 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
6of1_halfdozenofother Posted June 9 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
Drive-By Body Pierce Posted June 9 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
Rocket-68 Posted June 9 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
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