My last features post mentioned the next feature I had in sight was e-mail notifications for new SwagCodes. This has been, at least temporarily, replaced by a less cumbersome solution: twitter.
When there’s a new code, it will be posted to our twitter account within minutes. If your twitter account has SMS enabled, you can text follow swagcodespoiler to twitter, and you’ll start receiving text messages when we post new SwagCodes.
Additionally, for those of you who are are interested in an RSS feed containing just the Swag Codes (without any other posts), you can subscribe here:
There are currently two features available to those of you with access to http://host.sc-s.com that aren’t available at the current version of SwagCode Spoiler. Because the documentation is scarse to non-existent elsewhere, I’m making a brief post to explain them. Hopefully this will help you maximize what SC-S can do for you.
1. SwagCode Checker
Firstly, we have a SwagCode “Checker”. This is a very straightforward tool. Open the page, and leave it open. Every fifteen seconds or so, it will go behind the scenes and do the following:
Checks the Swidgit for anything out of the ordinary (i.e., saying something other than “There is no SwagCode available.”)
Check if any active codes are available through sc-s.com’s posts.
If either of these things turn out to be the case, you will be notified via a Javascript alert. When this happens, it will look as follows:
This is what the SwagCode Checker will look like when there's an active SwagCode.
Most Browsers will automatically focus the Checker page when a Javascript alert appears, so as long as you’re at your computer, you’ll know within seconds of a code being out.
2. Dynamic display of active SwagCodes
This feature appears in an area directly above the chat box. It will usually say something to the effect of “There is no active swagcode”. If there is an active swagcode, however, it will be there — whether or not it is a code that you can copy/paste or if it is a code you usually have to go to a page to copy/paste. This feature will automatically give you your own unique version of a Swag Code if necessary. For example, if the code is SwaGgErXXXX, it will give you a code that looks something like SwaGgEr1Jr4 that you can simply copy/paste into the “gimme box” without worrying about getting it from a page.
This is an example of a "Dynamic" swag code being displayed
I hope this has been useful. Next up to bat is a notifier that will e-mail/text you when there is an active swag code. This should be done within the next few weeks.
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