For those curious about this 'tilbert' character - if you switch on 'show dead' it turns out he (allegedly) wrote the software in question.
Think the hellban must just be a glitch - so.. Amongst other things, Tilbert wrote:
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... my hope with open-source is people will help add to it. if you want to help, I'd love that!
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I see the hell ban, I'm posting all my replies at the bottom in a comment I'm editing - could somebody note this above?
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I think you guys/gals have a point [about the referral link to DigitalOcean] the referral link is gone. ;-)
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@coleifer: there was a sqlite branch, but it doesn't scale well to many-million record sets which is what I have been doing. the design of the software allows drop-in db replacement, it just lacks the code. I can't decide to go back and sqlite or to just make a web front-end.
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@captn3m0 I have an academic paper in revision that is an analysis of the alexa 1M list, I also have other projects i development.
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@snorrah: this was my first python project, so I went with the newest version. it's made a lot of things very difficult, especially porting to a web version.
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@linuxlizard: proxy is problem when you want to do a lot of concurrent tests, I usually load about 64 pages in tandem to get good speeds on large sets.
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@radmuzon: webdxray runs large batch jobs, so you can get lunch, and come back with all of pages analyzed. I know it does work on windows, and I apologize for not being able to provide directions...see comments above
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* There's more. Enable 'ShowDead' in Profile to see rest of his comments.
There's no way to reply to hellbanned users. People have to reply to others, and hope the hellbanned user sees it. If you enable showdead in your profile, you'll see that tilbert replied to you.