September 19, 2010

Top rotation update -- finished!!

And about damned time, too. The total count is now 734, of which 460 are new.

The cycle repeats in 30 days and 9 hours.

UPDATE: Oops! 30 days and 14 hours.

UPDATE: OK, I trimmed it to 730, 30 days and 10 hours.

Why? I'm trying to make it so that it does a phase shift of about one third each time it repeats, so that if someone visits at the same time  of day every day, they see something different.

If the modulus was 8 hours, that would be make it so that they would see an exact repeat after 3 months. By making it a bit different (10 hours) then the phase shift isn't exactly one third.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Site Stuff at 04:24 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
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1 Congratulations! First up is Squirtle, which is a good omen for this generation, I suppose.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at September 19, 2010 05:11 PM (9KseV)

2 You're a little late. Actually the first one was Lily from Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou. Still a good omen.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at September 19, 2010 05:13 PM (+rSRq)

3

For those tuning in late, it was this one:

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followed by this one:

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Posted by: Steven Den Beste at September 19, 2010 05:28 PM (+rSRq)

4 I don't know that you've ever described precisely how the rotation works, and of course it's probably best that you don't get to detailed for security reasons, etc.  But I take it from this post that it's a deterministic rotation, such that those two pictures will always follow each other, 30 days and 10 hours after the last time they appeared?

I know I've seen repeats before, but I'd never noticed a pattern before.  I guess that says good things about the timing of the cycle.

Posted by: David at September 20, 2010 12:40 PM (oyblT)

5

It's just running through them in order. When it reaches the last one, it resets to the beginning of the list and starts over.

There are other things I could do (use a random number?) but... I don't fix what ain't broke, and this isn't broken.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at September 20, 2010 01:21 PM (+rSRq)

6 Some blogs have per-load rotations and I did resort to reloading them continuously until the desired picture was found. At least with fixed-schedule rotation there is no such temptation.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at September 20, 2010 01:53 PM (9KseV)

7

I could have made it "increment per visit", but I used to have a script that did that for USS Clueless, and a couple of times a month it would get loused up when two people visited at nearly the same time.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at September 20, 2010 02:33 PM (+rSRq)

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