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Thanks PetriW! That's good news. I think the documentation is a bit contradicting though; the last paragraph before 'Flood Protection' ends with: Please do not send pings more often then once every 5 minutes and only on connections via NAT routers or if the user has explicitly enabled regular keepal...

Hi,

Is the 'exception' to the 5 minute PING interval rule discussed here still OK to use or is the 5 minute rule strictly enforced nowadays?

Just want to check before I do something potentially stupid .

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Continued from this post . I'd like to see statistics for anime ratings and number of votes but I don't think it's that much fun looking at graphs that simply show the actual ratings and number of votes. Instead I find it more interesting if the graph shows a weighted rating based on popularity. I m...

Exp, looks like you've been reading my mind I've actually been toying with the idea of posting a request for this feature.

OK, I'm dropping this thread and I'll continue in a new one here
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Good point, Rar. For the sake of completeness, and since I'll be referring to this post from the command request, I'm including parts of a message I sent to Der Idiot, which explains a bit more abot the actual application. No need to reply unless someone wants to add anything. ... For the past year ...

The API does look interesting but I see two problems though: 1. It's not possible to retrieve the aid# for the anime with the highest aid#. This means that one has to: a. Guess the highest AID#. b. Repeatedly send the ANIME command, incrementing the 'aid' parameter by one for each command, until it ...

Hi! Wasn't sure if this q should go under Support or Development, it's related to some of my personal AniDB dev projects though. Feel free to move it if it's too OT. The July 29th update threw a monkeywrench in the works for me. I have a few non-public AniDB tools that do offline processing of data ...

Hi! Just wondering if this message board is the only way to contact the AniDB staff. Can't find any contact info in the Wiki. Don't want to PM them unless they say OK. Reason I'm asking is that I've noticed some strange actions on AniDB and if it's the result of hacking I don't want to bring too muc...