Runewise's Badges of Honour

Just added a new feature to Runewise called "Badges of Honour". You can see more details about it here.

It's amazing how much interesting stuff could be done based on Adventurer's log data! Runewise now have four services based on Adventurer's Logs: first it was a "hidden" congratulation service, then community records, then personal records and now "badges of honour". And I have a feeling there will be more. Oh, how I wish there would be Adventurer's log for F2P players...

Thanks again to my friends from Impact for providing the ALog service to Runewise.

Runewise Community Adventurers Log

I'd like to announce a new service I just added to Runewise, which is called "Runewise Community Adventurers Log". Its purpose is to give Runewise folks a set of common community goals and records. And it also shows some nifty statistics collected from multiple Adventurer's Logs.

But what's real special about this service is the fact that it is built on top of an API provided by another Runescape fan site. Yeap, it's an example of collaboration on API level I've been preaching for so long. To be honest, I wasn't successful in this preaching up until this point. I did offer to open up Runewise's APIs to many fan sites in the past, but nobody was willing to give it a try. For various reasons, but mainly because they didn't consider Runewise to be a trusted source. It might sound strange (and it did hurt my feelings a bit), but it is (or was?) a reality. Maybe it'll change in the future.

Anyway, the site which provided Adventurer's Log API for Runewise is Impact IRC Bot, whose interview was included into the recent series of interview with fan sites. They also ended up using Runewise's services (for their !Advice and !Utip commands), so the data is flowing in both directions. I am very grateful to Impact guys for working it up with me. Both sites are benefiting from this integration and now I can hope that maybe fan sites will start trusting each other just a little bit more. I can hope, can't I?

Is 76king really gone?

Well, hidden and shocking Adventurer's Log update was definitely #1 on my list yesterday, but, of course, there also was long awaited anti-76king update too. I've seen several posts about it, including one from pker stand point, but I still don't get it. Is 76king really gone or it will simply turn into a 3+ players clan/group activity? If later, I won't be happy... Anyone knows for sure?