~: KWAH :~

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• Well, since the last 7 days does include today, then all the values under the last 7 days are incorrect. Also, I have noticed that the values don’t change when a new day begins. I’m still sitting with $0.38 since yesterday. If they do change, the values are still incorrect.

• Another thing that I have noticed under today, the real average doesn’t get calculated. I recycled a referral and yet the real average stays the same as the rented average. I’m not sure though if it also affects yesterday (I will have to confirm tomorrow).

Give v4.1.100903.1900 a try..

• I’ve had a go at simplifying how the data is stored in the script so hopefully any inconsistencies can be eradicated more easily
• The direct refs page should now be working
• Fixed the issues with the dates in the profit graph
• I’ve added in a ‘sums’ row under the graphs which will make it a bit easier to double check the graphs etc for errors
• Fixed the personal clicks count – shouldn’t see .99999999…. any more

Install Neobux 2+

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• I don’t know if you know this, but in order for the personal clicks for today to appear in the Statistics Summary, you have to visit the Account Summary page where the “Your advertisement clicks” graph is located. So each time you click an ad, the personal clicks will only update by visiting the Account Summary page. For example. If I click an extra standard ad, the $0.01 will not be added to the personal clicks if I don’t visit the Account Summary page. The same goes when clicking your 4 regular daily ads.

I cannot fix this without trying to detect each time an ad is shown – something that I do not plan to do. So, for now this is labelled as ‘wontfix’.

As you correctly assert, the only alternative method of detecting an up-to-date count of the number of ads that have been clicked would be to load the account summary in the background which would not be allowed.

Sorry for being a bit of a pain with this all taking so long (doh) but I’ve just uploaded v4.1.100901.1445 to userscripts.org which should fix many of the issues that have been reported here. Donation buttons have been removed from the installation page at userscripts.org and the stats sidebar (as per admin’s request).

I’ve also created this bug/suggestion/feedback tracker for the script which will help me to keep track of any problems you’re all having:

http://kwah.crowdsound.com/

Currently known issues with v4.1.100901.1445:

• The settings editor is incomplete – only a small number of the settings can be altered using it

  –> TODO: Will be expanding this soon, just wanted to get the basics working first

• The script doesn’t work correctly on the direct referrals page

  –> TODO: I haven’t got any direct referrals so haven’t been able to test this yet but I know about this issue and will be sorting it out soon

• The local/server time doesn’t display

  –> I haven’t gotten around to adding this section of code into the script yet. Also on the TODO list.

• The CSV/TSV/Text export tabs don’t show anything

  –> Again, not yet added into the script – been getting everything else in first

You can download v4.1.100901.1445 from userscripts.org here:

• http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/61349

or you can install the “bleeding edge” copy that is more frequently updated (its a snapshot of the script that I’m working with & using at the time) from here:

• http://kwah.org/scripts/neobux2/neobux_2_kwah_-_rewrite.user.js

WARNING: These copies don’t have any updater code in them, which means that you will not automatically be informed of any updates to the script. You will need to check here / userscripts.org / kwah.org to find out if a new version has been uploaded.

Well, it has been a while since I last posted so perhaps I should post more? Well you're in luck because I plan to do just that

Currently working on..

Currently I'm working on Neobux 2+ v4.1 - a rewrite of the older versions to be a bit easier to handle coding-wise and a bit more feature-full for those who use it so expect a few more updates regarding that.. More info later..

Uhm, in other news:

You can complain about me somewhere else now

An account at CrowdSound has been set-up so that you can post bugs/ideas/suggestions about the Neobux 2+ script and keep track of whether I've done anything about it. Post in the comments here if you know of any better (free) alternatives

There appears to be quite a lot of confusion pretty much all the time from new members and veterans about exactly how to explain when you should click your advertisements on Neobux. Assadon has created a pretty good guide and has posted it into the Neobux forums but at the very least, with the help of my significant other I think this alternative explanation will also be useful to the members of Neobux =] .

The Issues

Well, for starters let’s look at the issue boiled down to three simple points:

1. You must click one set of your advertisements each server day
2. For many (most?) members, your advertisement reset times will be different each day
3. Due to this difference, it makes it possible to make the mistake of viewing your first set of ads in the morning before the reset, and then a second set later in the same day (more on this later)

The problem here is then how to decide when exactly you should and should not click your adverts – something that I hope to be able to help with, using my account details as an example =] .

The Image

Imagine a 24-hour clock on one dial (most* that I’ve ever seen are only 12-hours). This one has midnight [00:00 am] local time at the top, and noon [12:00 pm] at the bottom (where the ’6′ usually is). In place of the ’3′ is 09:00 am and in place of the ’9′ is 18:00 pm.

* Yes, I did say “most”…

Now let’s take a look at this (hand-drawn!) imaginary clock… :

Also labelled on this imaginary diagram is the time that the server’s clock hits midnight [ 04:00am (local) / 00:00am (server) ] and the time that my advertisements reset [ 19:29 pm (local) / 15:29 (server) ].

With these markings in place, hopefully it makes it obvious which times I am able to click in. These are my options:

1. Between 04:00 am (local time) and 19:29 pm (local time) – these are adverts that became available yesterday (“yesterday’s” ads)
2. Between 19:29 pm (local time) and 04:00 am (local time) – these are adverts that became newly available today (today’s “new” ads)

So how does this help?

Well, as long as you only click in one of these time periods then you will never have any problems with clicking two sets of ads in one day then being unable to click the next day.

But… I do something slightly different…

I only click 4 of the ‘new’ ads each evening. This means that when I wake up the next day, it is a new server day and I have 5 ads to click.

This has the benefit of allowing me some flexibility re: when I click next: I have already clicked during the server day so if I do not click on the evening then I will not lose any referral clicks and I will have 9 ads to click the following morning. Just my way of not needing to worry if I get asked to go out on the night =]

I’ve decided to not *actively* support browsers that do not run Greasemonkey or are not fully Greasemonkey-compatible.

More specifically, I’m pretty anti-Google Chrome regarding the privacy concerns (did you know that until a recent update a unique identifier was sent to Google with details about every URL that you visit? *) and Opera is a little bit awkward to code for due to lack of support for any form of storage available to the script (except for v11.5 which was recently released I think, which has localstorage available to scripts).

* after the backlash it received, it is now sent only when you install and / or update chrome

I realise that both of the issues I mentioned are both semi-irrelevant due to recent semi-solutions becoming available, but they are not the complete reasons for not supporting these browsers.

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Question:

I want to know, what do these letters mean next to our flags?

Answer:
These letters are simply the first initial of the colour of the flag that the referral has been assigned.

• W = White
• R = Red
• O = Orange
• Y = Yellow
• G = Green

Tags: codes, FAQ, flags, kwah, Neobux 2+, qa, referrals

Answer:
R.Average == Real Average

In other words, it is your average *after* the recycle costs have been taken into account.

For example:

• A golden with 200 rented referrals and an average of 1.00 will earn $2.00 in one day.
• If that golden member were to spend $0.50 on recycling, the total earnings will be $1.50 for that day.
• An average of 0.75 without spending anything on recycling would also give $1.50 in profit / total earnings for the day.

Therefore, we call 0.75 the “Real Average”.

Tags: average, FAQ, kwah, Neobux 2+, qa, r.average, real average

There seems to be trends going around at the Neobux forums with certain questions being asked & answered quite frequently regarding my scripts and Neobux in general, so I’ve created a new category ‘FAQ’ and will be adding to it occasionally.

Coming up soon in this category is a post about the Neobux Ad Reset Time (just gotta upload a couple of photos) and maybe a few more details about creating the rules for the referral highlighter script but hopefully that won’t be needed soon.

As an aside..

If anybody is willing to write any articles or even faq-type posts then please do get in touch! Payments for these are negotiable but everyone will get your referral link on the posts etc and maybe links to your own blogs… Long story short, get in touch and we’ll see what can be arranged =]

Update:
It seems that userscripts.org have updated their certificate and the problem has stopped.

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kwah any update available ? …. the userscripts.org certificate it`s expired … thanks

I don’t understand.

I was away from my computer over most of the weekend but I did get two minutes to check out userscripts.org on my phone and saw no problems. Perhaps you could explain a little more?

kwah, read:
Expired Script Certificate
godaddy certificate expired

Everytime I visit Neobux I get this message:

userscript.org:443 uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate expired on 21/03/2010 09:24
(Error code: sec_error_expired_certificate)
This could be a problem with the server’s configuration or it could be someone try to impersonate tge server.
If you have connected to this server succesfully in the past the error may be temporary and you can try again later

Can someone help me? I got this message today when I visited Neobux.

BTW: I use firefox 3.6

Short Response

That is clearly a problem with the userscripts.org SSL certificate and not my script – note the mention of port 433 in the error message, the default port for https / SSL. The ‘correct’ fix for this is for userscripts.org to update their certificate but this would be beyond my control.

More detailed Information::

My scripts check for updates using the https:// (secure) version of the download links, but because the userscripts.org SSL certificate (Secure Sockets Layer – the thing that triggers the ‘secure’ padlock in the bottom right of Internet Explorer) has expired, your browser is unable to verify that the site is actually who it says it is.

This causes an error whenever the script tries to check for updates because the browser will not allow it to ‘see’ what is at the https:// link. This causes the update to fail and the script then keeps retrying on every page load (and causing the error to popup).

Check below the fold for the fix =]

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With only two weeks to go until I go off to Australia for a couple of months, I figure I should try and get some updates out to all my adoring fans

So…. for starters, I’ve just uploded a copy of my current progress in rewriting the Neobux Referral Highlighter script.

Everything is looking fine and dandy with it for now but I’ve decided to upload it as ‘Experimental’ (read: pre-release / beta) because it hasn’t been tested very thoroughly and may still contain bugs.

New Features

The biggest change that you’ll see as a user of the script is that you will be able to define your own custom rules about what you want to highlight referrals for.

For example, have you ever wanted to completely ignore referrals that are new & haven’t had a chance to ‘prove themselves’?  Or perhaps you want to highlight different referrals different colours based on different averages depending on how old they are. Well now you can*.

*- You just need to be able to create a ‘rule’ for it

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