HWS Artificial Help Bot (discussion)

KveldUlf · September 10, 2020, 9:31pm

These two can back unanswered. I’ll keep poking at it. Would you rather I edit this post to add others, or post a new reply?

How do I get ice blocks?

I keep dying

The “I keep dying” one is not a question, but I could see a frustrated new player type that in.
I like this project Dark, good work and good thinking.

Dr.Dark · September 11, 2020, 4:26am

Thanks, will add them when I get time

It’s best if you just reply again then I get a notification.

IceDrugg · September 11, 2020, 10:28am

Just write me a PM

Dr.Dark · September 11, 2020, 4:21pm

Added both of these now.
But you won’t be able to see them until @RexXxuS pulls the update.

Dr.Dark · September 14, 2020, 2:26pm

To anyone (using chrome browser who may be) interested I have made the AHB into a chrome extension for HWS Connect.
At the moment it’s only available for chrome browser. Support for others browsers may come at some point.

If you find any issues/bugs feel free to let me know.

Dr.Dark · September 19, 2020, 2:25pm

I’ve begun working on language support for German (and making it easier to support other languages once I’m done).
It will probably take quite a while to finish, and I’d really appreciate if anyone who speaks German could verify some of my translations or help me translate directly from English. Please contact me on discord, Dr. Dark#0555 if you’re interested in helping.

For starters it’ll only be for the actual website, and not the chrome extension, but maybe one day I’ll expand the language support to the extension as well.

Dr.Dark · September 20, 2020, 5:17pm

It will definitely take a while to finish, but the next update will be big
I’m expecting to be done in a week or two, but let’s see.

You can expect to see:

German language.
Responses suggested as you write.
Some other smaller changes.

Dr.Dark · September 25, 2020, 7:08pm

I’m approx. half way done translating responses, and I’ve also added a few other smaller new features.
It’ll take at least one more week before I’m done with the update, but I do think the update will be quite nice once it’s ready.
But I will need feedback on my German translations once it comes out.
They’re definitely not perfect, and my German isn’t good enough to find errors myself. But hopefully there’ll be few errors

But a few other things I’ve made:

Images will be shown in a big version once you click them.
A few small design changes here and there.
Other minor changes.

Dr.Dark · September 27, 2020, 3:05pm

Most of the big update was released now.
This is definitely the biggest update to the website so far.
Some of the changes you can expect to see:

Some design changes.
Images will be enlarged when you click on type (You can ask for an image of the universe to see this in action)
Support for the German language.
Many other smaller improvements, but not unimportant changes.
(Note: I’m still working on making the website suggest responses as you write. It’ll be added soon enough, but I wanted to release all the above first.)

Since I don’t speak German very well, then I’m going to need some help finding the mistakes I made with my translations.
Please let me know over discord, or here on the forum if you find any mistakes or sentences that don’t make any sense.

Hidden stuff ;)

One of the first versions of the website which you can compare to the above image.

Dr.Dark · October 9, 2020, 1:51pm

Another update is ready.
I have not had time to translate it to German yet but will work on that soon.
After that is done, then I’m gonna begin working on remaking the Chrome Extension.

But the changes you’ll see once @RexXxuS pulls them are:

An explaination of commands once you click them.
Servertime is now displayed next to the name of you or the bot.
Some small design changes here and there.
A “warning” list in the bottom right corner telling about events which will happen soon, for example server restart of special events that happens by that server restart.
In the same menu you can see important events/warnings you will get suggestions for questions as you’re writing.

Let me know if you experience any issues or have any feedback, this is a fairly large update.