Tutorial Requests & Bounties

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#10

As long as you include the source and explain how to use them in the context of the tutorial (and preferably in general), yes. Homemade classes fit the bill for all three requirements.

@Cindering: Added your bounties

@Zomebody: Thanks!

@Velibor: I added your tutorial request & bounty, but changed the wording on it and made it more definitive so we could classify it as non-opinionated. Let me know if I missed anything / misinterpreted your request.

@Lilly_S: Sounds like a great idea :P

I’m glad this thread took off. Thank you everyone! Hopefully we’ll see lots of tutorials by the end of the month :)

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#11
#12

Thanks ! That is exactly how it should be :slight_smile:

I did quite some research on the topic for Deathrun, so I’m really curious what others will suggest !

#13

I’ll throw R$1500 into the bounty for this

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#14

I am writing the HTTPService thingy tutorial for ranks, shouts etc. It is just taking me some time to make it as basic as possible :slight_smile:

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#15

Was just writing one as well :P, but I ran into a roadblock I haven’t got before and decided to abandon it (wasn’t worth my time)

#16

http://devforum.roblox.com/t/how-to-use-a-bot-with-httpservice-to-update-ranks-exile-and-more/23883

Finished the tutorial on setting up a web server and using it with HttpService to control group-related stuff. The API can set ranks, exile users, handle join requests, post wall messages, and update the group shout.
If there are any issues, please let me know!

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#17

Personally I disagree with your Lua code, any web request should be protected with an pcall. But other then that, great tutorial !

#18

I would never use a HttpService request without using pcall. xD
I only did so for the purposes of the tutorial.

#19

Then you should edit your code to actually use pcall, it doesn’t make sense if you won’t do it yourself. This is asking for trouble…

#20

Okay. I modified the Pastebin to include a pcall.

Also @EchoReaper, @Cindering, @Wizzy011, please try out the tutorial whenever you have time. If it works, let me know, and I’d be happy to receive the bounties. :stuck_out_tongue:

#21

I had the time to skim over it, but I’ll be leaving for a couple hours shortly so I won’t have time to try it out until I get back. Overall it looks great, but after looking through it it’d be nice to see:

  • Can I continually get $10 of free credit in Digital Ocean by using referral links, or can I only do that once?
  • Recommendations for free web hosts for small groups that don’t have the income to afford a paid one
  • Do these servers have issues with their IPs sometimes changing? IIRC when I hosted a MC server I needed to set up a free web address that people could connect to regardless of whether the IP had changed or not. If it’s a similar situation here, it wouldn’t be fun to update your scripts with a new IP every time it changed.
  • Screenshot of where public IP can be found in control panel

I’ll probably PM you some more feedback when I get the chance to try it out.

#22

And wops, I am some minutes late to the party (yay slow internet!).

Just for reference so people don’t need to make one for PHP; http://devforum.roblox.com/t/httpservice-group-promotion-group-kicking-and-setting-a-shout-php/23886

#23

Oh noes we have two threads that are bounty-worthy. I hadn’t thought of what should happen in this case. Do you two want to try to work something out over the bounty?

#24
  1. You get the $10 credit for signing up with a referral link.
  2. I don’t have any recommendations for free web hosts at the moment. I’ll look around and add some to the thread.
  3. DigitalOcean servers will not change their public IPs unless you manually change it.
  4. Added a screenshot to the thread.

Not sure what to do over the bounty, honestly. :confused:

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#25

It’s up to @Programmix1 from my side, as he was some minutes faster… (as I also don’t know honestly :confused:)

Btw @Programmix1 about Digital Ocean and credits (just FYI) https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/79928/digitalocean-expiring-credit

#26

I read that thread. I got the e-mail and it says that credit you gain from using the referal links will expire in April. Didn’t know about that. Looks like it’s good reason to use the free credit while you can. :stuck_out_tongue:

Referrals have been a thing for a long time in DigitalOcean. Not sure what’s going to happen after free credit disappears in the way of referrals. We shall see.

#27

So many Http stuff, D:

#28

Did a general Building tutorial for FREEEEEE:

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#29

I will think of doing this tonight/tomorrow. I have experiences with using queries, and I know how I can go approach things like value overflow.
I will edit in if I decide to cancel or not.
(I may split up queries and overflow into separate tutorials.)

Does this mean I would start by explaining how to use DataStores, or do something brief, link to the wiki, and continue on with the tutorial?

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