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V1 Pre-Release, logon Message of the Day insert #272

Closed TorricRodas closed 2 years ago

TorricRodas commented 2 years ago

Code to count logins and every 25th login show a link to genesisviewer.org as MOTD, where we can promote latest update, tips and tricks etc.

This code should contain a creation date of the MOTD link and should not display at all if the current date is >12 months ahead of the creation date of the link. This prevents the scenario where a disused address.org gets acquired by a domain re-seller for other advertising purposes.

This also gives us the opportunity to keep users up-to-date without doing a 'phone home' to a third party server, which we have already decided we should never do.

Shep1962 commented 2 years ago

can you MOTD also include a 'do not show again' option.

TorricRodas commented 2 years ago

can you MOTD also include a 'do not show again' option.

I'd rather not, we're talking about replacing MOTD with our own.. For tips and tricks see genesisviewer.org in every 25 to 50 or 75 logons... since dev is ongoing, we don't really want them dismissing it never to be seen again?

MelyCosti commented 2 years ago

@TorricRodas I propose to store a file on LC server which will be pointed by https://genesisviewer.org/motd each line will be : |motd

The viewer tries to load the file, if can't , we continue If we can donwload, then we get the lines with < today and order by

counting the numbers of login will be easy. so if logincount % 25 == 0, the viewer takes the first motd and replace the message on login screen.

Hope I was clear in my explications.

What do you think?

TorricRodas commented 2 years ago

What do you think?

we wanted to avoid phone home. so we just need a one line xml that checks its creation date against todays date and doesn't display at all if the xml is more than 1 year old. we just need to remember to reset the xml date semi regularly