Posted by: Lord Snakie
Giving jmh this code and letting him run with it, I'd say.
Restrictions applied, of course, jmh could at least return functionality to the ModStalker, if not the uStalker. I'm sure he would be willing to go along with your requests if he could at least use the script to return functionality to the ModStalk. Hell, if jmh applied his two possible data retrieval systems and tied them in to this, the ModStalk might almost return to the accuracy it had pre-update.How would it sound if you could still stalk other people, just not moderators?
Also, just remember that the dates/times of posts/edits that are sent to my database are only the times on posts that people with the script 'see'. So, if no-one 'sees' a person's new post, the 'last posted' date/time in my database will be still be the one before the new post.
The whole design is dependent upon how much lurkingness (if that's even a word) there is. Maybe some leaderboards to tally up the people who 'see' posts before others - try keep the incentive there, because after all, the more people that use the script, the more historical the records will be and the quicker they can be seen by others.
Still very much in the design phase here.
Edit: If I did it properly, I could even support some of those B.net achievements too.
[Edited on 10.09.2009 8:45 PM PDT]