Question about the new Flagdog system (or the old one i have no idea what has changed) - General

I have a question So recently flagdog came back and it was great i guess but i've been noticing some things, my flag is American, I'm an Australian citizen btw haven't visited the US or even left this country at all, I also use facepunch at school and when I post, it still says I'm from the USA, i don't know why would this be I know this system bases on the registration of your IP address which i understand but I'm fairly certain this isn't the case anymore and in fact is based on something else possibly to save server load time my home ISP is telstra, the school's is through UQconnect which I think have plenty of Australian registered IP addresses cheers guys

wow shit I didn't even notice it came back

how the fuck did you dodge that

Maybe Telstra was short IPs so they bought some off an American company? Flagdog might be determining your county based on who originally bought the IP, rather than who owns it now. On the other hand, I may have no clue how this workd

it's based off where you registered from, not from where you are at the moment.

[QUOTE=Mike Tyson;40724059]it's based off where you registered from, not from where you are at the moment.[/QUOTE] This is correct. I registered back in the UAE, but I've been living in the UK again for a year and a half now.

Oh, then this is a little shitty then Suggestion could flag dog do a location check every month or so, would be easier for the server in that case

In the thread announcing FlagDog coming back, I recall someone saying Telstra users often having US IP addresses, so I don't know that a monthly check would change anything for you.

well i always thought that it should be user preference

Consider yourself lucky, I don't have a flag :(

or garry could geolocation your ip when you make a post and store it in the db as a country code problem solved

[QUOTE=TehWhale;40732683]or garry could geolocation your ip when you make a post and store it in the db as a country code problem solved[/QUOTE] pretty sure that sort of thing led to flagdog being taken away since people were using it to creep about

oh man someone knows what country i'm from, my privacy is breached

[QUOTE=TehWhale;40733229]oh man someone knows what country i'm from, my privacy is breached[/QUOTE] no no it wasn't that they knew what country they were from, its that they actually had access to the IP addresses of course i could be completely talking out of my ass here, so someone please correct me if I'm wrong, since this is just what I remember reading.

I believe at one point it showed the IPs, but other than that no. I also believe that at one point the new flag dog displayed what city you were in. But the way Flagdog was coded before was an encoded ip and send to a separate server to handle the geolocation. It was a terrible method to display a user's flag.

Yeah, it used to say State/Province and town if you moused over it (actually wasn't to far off for me)

[QUOTE=TehWhale;40733369]I believe at one point it showed the IPs, but other than that no. I also believe that at one point the new flag dog displayed what city you were in. But the way Flagdog was coded before was an encoded ip and send to a separate server to handle the geolocation. It was a terrible method to display a user's flag.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Liem;40733396]Yeah, it used to say State/Province and town if you moused over it (actually wasn't to far off for me)[/QUOTE] Thanks guys, that clarified things a bit.

i am the best argentina man

[QUOTE=TehWhale;40732683]or garry could geolocation your ip when you make a post and store it in the db as a country code problem solved[/QUOTE] flagdoggie was removed because it did exactly that the hash (which was your ip just hashed, so while it didn't give your ip, it was able to be used to track alts) was stored on flagdog.fpstudios.com your browser, made 40 requests a page to flagdog.fpstudios.com imagine 500 people browsing lamo pics on a 40 post page 40x500 = 20000 requests on that server yeah that's not a good idea

[QUOTE=FinalHunter;40731652]Then we'd just have a bunch of people thinking they were funny by setting their country to something obscure like Kyrgyzstan.[/QUOTE] Fuck Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan is better. But Uzbekistan is just shithole.

afaik it was set not to cache or something so it requested it every time

alrighty then, just that's it's really confusing when im talking about something Australian related yet my flag is saying I'm an American, doesn't seem so right

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;40738568]alrighty then, just that's it's really confusing when im talking about something Australian related yet my flag is saying I'm an American, doesn't seem so right[/QUOTE] it's okay, i'm not from spain never been to spain

[QUOTE=LordCrypto;40736041]flagdoggie was removed because it did exactly that the hash (which was your ip just hashed, so while it didn't give your ip, it was able to be used to track alts) was stored on flagdog.fpstudios.com your browser, made 40 requests a page to flagdog.fpstudios.com imagine 500 people browsing lamo pics on a 40 post page 40x500 = 20000 requests on that server yeah that's not a good idea[/QUOTE]that's not what my post said my post said geolocate your ip when you make a post and store it in the db (the same record as your post) as a country code when you're grabbing the post $post->body $post->country_code etc.

'Murica

[QUOTE=TehWhale;40746422]that's not what my post said my post said geolocate your ip when you make a post and store it in the db (the same record as your post) as a country code when you're grabbing the post $post->body $post->country_code etc.[/QUOTE] Instead of every post (which probably isn't that efficient - especially for a large forum), what about every time you log-in?

The flags looked so much neater last flagdog run

its because i think garry added some gloss to it

Honestly, it should just use whatever we put as our location in our profiles. The old way hammered the servers and this way is really inaccurate.

[QUOTE=Drakehawke;40754393]Instead of every post (which probably isn't that efficient - especially for a large forum), what about every time you log-in?[/QUOTE] As Synthiac pointed out, the PHP library for GeoIP can perform thousands of lookups a second; the impact would be nonexistent.