How does the forum handle 8h bumps?

[Flamedog]

When I bump a thread at 1:00 PM, and bump it again at 8:58 PM, do I get some type of error message which prevents me from bumping? Or can you post as much as you like as long as it's 10 seconds in between of each post?

I'm asking cus im trying to resolve some bugs in my autobumper

 

[Majora]

There's no error for it. Responsibility is put in your hands to follow the rule. Technically you could be infracted for not waiting that 2 minutes.

EDIT: There is an error like you mentioned to prevent you from spam posting though

 

[Moes]

Yes you can't bump before 8 hours in market sections. It will give you an error message. Try it yourself

 

[Flamedog]

Hmm thats kinda an issue. My autobumper basically bumps at exactly 8 hour intervals, so 3 times a day. This means when it bumps at 08:00 and again at 16:00, it will skip the 16:00 bump because its so precise. If i would set it for 16:01 that would work, but then it would skip the 24:00 bump for the same reason

 

[Moes]

Just put a bump back in the queue at + 1 min when it fails. Possibilities obviously depend on your implementation.

 

[Flamedog]

Just put a bump back in the queue at + 1 min when it fails. Possibilities obviously depend on your implementation.

i use a cron-job for it in combination with a queue. However, adding +1 min will likely increase the queue endlessly since once I delay a bump, it will also delay the next bump by 2 minutes since on 8:00 and 8:01 it will likely not be able to bump, so it becomes 8:02 (3 bump attempts, 2 of them delayed)

hmm unsure how to solve yet

 

[Moes]

I'm talking about fault tolerance. Add an extra bump to the queue at +1 min when it fails. That shouldn't change the future bump schedule.

 

[Flamedog]

I'm talking about fault tolerance. Add an extra bump to the queue at +1 min when it fails. That shouldn't change the future bump schedule.

yes but with CRON you are bound to using the 24 hour loop. I can programmatically bump threads every 8h exactly, but not every 8h and 1m. Any additional time past the 8h would not fit nicely into the 24h, so that means the next day should make up for this difference. Every subsequent day would then have to make up for the few minutes the day before. In other words: an increasing queue.

A simpler solution would be javascript though: I could run functions easily with 8h and 1m apart, since it just keeps on counting. In PHP you are usually bound to an ending function.