Chatbot Progress and Regression –

Ello ello everyone (^. .^) so quick update and mention about how the chatbot is going, some good news and some rather frustrating setbacks I hope I can fix.

So first of all some good news (^. .^) and a GIAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT thank you to a super sweetie who has helped more than I can believe.
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/hopfel/
Has not only taken me through and offered to host my bot until I get my own server, but this lil clever salamander has put up with my complete lack of knowledge on so many computer topics and got the bot working online and even helped me with the flash interface to get things off the ground!
He has been such a help and so awesome I’m still deciding how to repay the kindness but for now go check out this awesome dudes gallery, there are some incredible flash animations and projects in there that if you are following me should be right up your street!

So where does that leave the bot? Well Almost ready for a demon in all honesty, I just need to finish ensuring the flash interface works, run a couple of tests and then upload it to my galleries so you lot can give hir a go! Shi is very basic still and has lots of teething issues so be gentle heh, but hopefully I will be able to get that out over the next few days.

Ok so the bad news.... something I was very proud of implementing into the bot when it was still hosted on Pandora has potentially been lost until I can think of a work around. The bot was able to remember the “location” and “topic” of what was happening, so say if you said to the bot “squirm” you would get a different reply and response depending on what was currently going on, say you were outside, on hir mouth or in hir belly etc etc.... this is now missing
I am delighted the bot is going to be online again, but hosting it in this fashion seems to have lost the ability for the bot to remember its own set topics and locations, so the bot completely forgets what has been happening and really messes up the continuity and flow of the roleplay.... I am not very happy about this for obvious reasons.

Alas I currently have no idea how to work around this as the program I am using to host this is the most up to date free one Pandora has released, and Pandora don’t allow adult material so even with the paid service I can’t host on their website to get this feature back, I will do some research and see what can be done but it’s a massive step back and could really how realistic the bot will appear.

But lets focus on the good news! The bot’s database is online, the interface’s demo version is nearly working and maybe maybe you lot might get to see the very early stages over the next couple of days, even if its missing what was a very crucial part of allowing hir to roleplay properly.

Stay tuned for more (^. .^)
Oh and I got the patreon page ready juuuust in case, ever the optimist XD
https://www.patreon.com/Umiriko

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Ok super speedy update to the above!!!!!
On finding this problem I instantly started looking for works around and alternatives and might have found something, thought it is not yet confirmed.
Long story short I am using something called Program E to run the bot, but have found a third party version called Program O, which is a modded and more developed version of E. Looking at is quickly it does appear like this might fix the above program and be able to remember and track sessions! So I have emailed the creator to ask a few questions to check before I go around the task of re-doing the database and updating the bot’s code to work with Program O. So claws crossed!

(^. .^) stay tasty all and wish me luck