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I have added Dreadmaul to the list of realms.

Please help out by adding your friends and guildmates to the database. Thanks

I have added a caching system for the character stats. This should help speed up the characher stat pages a bit. The reason for this addition is because character updates are no longer ‘instant’ due to the queue. The life of each cache file is 5 minutes.

p.s. Don’t add a cache when you are still slightly drunk. You might forget to add unique page identifiers. Everyone is feed the same cache no matter which page they request and this is bad. Sorry about that guys.

I have increased the number of characters you are able to request to be updated to 15.

You guys are doing a great job at helping me test this new system. Its going great!

The initial testing of the update queue for characters has been a huge success. If you look at the Recent Updates you will notice a huge spike of successful updates since I added the queue. This is great news!

I have been keeping a close eye on the queue and making sure everything runs smoothly and watching for trends.

Just as I suspected there are people who go out and attempt to update everyone they can possibly update all at once. Am I surprised? Not even the slightest. Am I upset? Not a chance, in fact I wish this was something you could still do with out a hitch.

At the time of posting there have been 5368 successful character updates and zero bans.

Depending on server demand and results from testing I may reactivate simi-continuous automatic updates. As of right now the speed of manual update requests and the speed of the queue seem to be working perfectly with each other. The highest queue I have seen was 221 characters this morning around 9AM EST. Currently at 12:37PM EST there are 14 characters in queue.

So far so good. I am very happy with these results. I hope you guys are also.

I have added an updating queue for character updates. The idea behind this change is that I may be able to maximize the number of character updates per minute and prevent being banned by The Armory.

One of the side effects is that you wont be able to see instant updates after clicking the refresh icon next to a player’s name.

During the first phase of testing I have limited the number of characters you can submit to 10 . The reason I selected 10 was I do not want to have a queue of 6000 characters from a single realm and preventing other realms from getting fair updates.

I noticed that a number of times the crawler was being banned was due to people spamming the Refresh icon on every person on the stats page until the crawler got banned. I hope this puts a stop to this.

During this testing I will be changing the rate in which I update characters until I can find a speed that is “fast” and not causing the crawler to be banned. At the time of this posting my crawler is current on a temporary IP ban. The crawler will begin the new process once this ban is lifted. Which will, hopefully, be within the next few hours.

I have disabled the auto crawler. It seems as if it might be getting banned due to the number of queries it was generating. I have enabled manual updates. Hopefully this will allow you guys to update yourselves. Its just sad because this means the other players in your range may or may not be updated or able to be updated.

I have emailed Blizzard’s Armory team to try and find a solution to this issue. No reply yet.

Welcome to the new Gankbang.com!!!

First off, I would like to thank Seismic and Venor from Bleeding Hollow for their amazing job making the graphics for the new layout. I would also like to thank I Has A Bucket and Tempest for their suggestions. Another HUGE thanks goes to the countless people who provided armory profiles, stat values and time emailing and talking to me. Without your help Gankbang.com wouldn’t be nearly where it is today.

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I have been working very hard for the past few weeks to implement a TON of bug fixes,  additions and changes all around to make Gankbang.com load faster, more organized, and all around better.

I really hope you like it, I sure do.

Over the past couple days the Armory has been reporting an Error 503 at times and saying that the character is invalid. No characters have been deleted or lost. Some characters are showing some invalid stats such as not being listed in a guild. Only method of fixing this: wait a couple hours and try refreshing your character again. I have re-enabled the auto-updaters. As of right now the updaters are running slow as I don’t want to have a ton of characters failing all day if I don’t have to.

Alright guys and gals, I have added the ability to view additional levels besides just level 70s. I have only enabled x8-x9 ranges for now. Depending on how things look I may add additional levels in the future. Please help out by adding your guilds and characters. Also, please submit any bugs you may find. I have been testing this for a couple weeks now and all seems to be working as planned. Enjoy. ;])

Well, I found and fixed a bug that was so well hidden it wasn’t funny. I want to thank Wowinsider.com for sending me a TON of traffic that made this bug visible. Looks like all is well again on the updater. Thanks again guys.