It was pretty late one night when I decided to mess around with some technical stuff around the Destructoid website. I've been a member all of two weeks, so I'm not sure if anyone has been bored enough to bother with this. I just thought it was kind of interesting, seeing as how I'm a web designer.
Fun fact #1: Destructoid claims to be “Living the dream since March 16, 2006, ” but in reality, the first published article that appeared on the front page was posted March 4th, 2006. Which one is it, Abe? Better keep your story straight. Since then, the collective community has published 18,164+ front page headlines. Take a good look at that number.
Fun fact #1 B): That first published article was, in fact, about advertisement specifications. Those filthy money whores. You can
read the article here.
Fun fact #2: Destructoid is invovled in some kind of government conspiracy that includes twisted fetishes and time warps. I came across more than one article with the timestamp "12:00 AM on 00.00.0000".
Fun fact #3: As I reported in
this article first, you can quickly navigate the archived comments by directly editing the query string. That is, until the lovely Niero codes a "latest comments" link.
i.e., http://www.destructoid.com/article-title.phtml?s=digit_here (where
digit_here is the identification key for the topmost comment)
Fun fact #4: You can also use the method from #3 to navigate through the "All headlines" section. To see the earliest posts, input 18150+ (from the time of writing this).
Fun fact #5: I'm leaving out any cheat for the current gaming contest. I don't use cheats in video games, only real life.
Any one else know of any little tidbits?
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Correction #1: Any posts dated previous to March 16th were backdated so they would never appear on the home page or search results, like that advertising specs page and the privacy policy. Federated Media sells our ads so that page isn't even linked anywhere anymore. I'm too lazy to delete it.
Correction #2: Uh, yeah, we fucked that one up. No clue.
Correction #3: Tom's building some cool ajax-powered comment stuff so pagination is going to be a lot more dynamic than my slow querystring junk. But first we're fixing our buggy video player or lackthereof.
Correction #4: There's some funny stuff in those early archives. Read Kuri's posts, he was the first guy I hired to write. He's a good friend of mine that I've known since we were like eight.
Correction #5: Much appreciated. I think the cheats are funny but I don't think the sponsor thinks its that funny; so if we get future contests pulled due to shenanigans that would not be so hot. I'll have more updates on that later.
I'll give you a trick: there's still an original Wordpress install somewhere on our server with all the comments on those old posts that we couldn't figure out how to import. If you click around enough on old posts you can find it, but I won't tell!
....
1.) Porn
2.) sick/funny videos
3.) Blogs that interest you.
4.) proving political advisaries wrong with search engines.
That's it. Don't try to make it more complicated than it is.
Thanks for the info! I figured they were backdated, but it's fun to find these things. Not to mention it's one extra link attached to that ad spec page.
@Richard Blocker
This blog does interest me. So don't read it if you don't care. It's stuff like this that will help Destructoid grow.
Like that AJAX comment system Niero mentioned? That's really going to speed things up around here.