Oh, Paradox.... even your URL schemes are insanely over-complicated. <3 edit: Well that appears to have broken some things. Even the background color decided to give up about 1/4th of the way...
It seems like this URL can be cleanly pruned: https://www.paradoxplaza.com/news?aid=Paradox+Interactive+Expands+its+Surviving+Franchise+with+Surviving+the+Aftermath I'm quite curious about what...
I'm quite curious about what data is contained in that messy monolithic jumble of info, though.
Edit: The jumble of data is the following, base64 encoded: {"title":"Paradox%20Interactive%20Expands%20its%20Surviving%20Franchise%20with%20Surviving%20the%20Aftermath","img":"//images.ctfassets.net/s1cu6ii344ub/49acASRtgslav4umBY8vbK/a451a07cff25e8e6526e8508ae4a7f97/Surviving_the_Aftermath_Teaser.png","description":"Post-apocalyptic%20survival%20colony%20builder%20launching%20late%202020%2C%20more%20info%20to%20be%20revealed%20at%20PDXCON"}7
...why? why would you need that in a URL? what system would ever put that in there?
But in that case, if you cut off the /metadata/ and everything after it, the link doesn't work. So the metadata is essential for that url scheme, but optional in this one.
Their forums use urls that are... well, I don't know if they're technically invalid, but they're not a normal url structure. For example, they look like this: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?forums/stellaris.900/ (note the query string of forums/stellaris.900/ after the ?)
I probably could have wrangled it into producing the same url, but the current code works perfectly for practically every other site. I don't know of a single other one with urls like that, so it was simpler to just exempt it from the processing entirely.
I think i'm done with Paradox as a company. I've been playing since EU3 and put most of my time into CK2 but own nearly all their games but i've been down on them for a couple of years with lazy...
I think i'm done with Paradox as a company. I've been playing since EU3 and put most of my time into CK2 but own nearly all their games but i've been down on them for a couple of years with lazy DLC, their disdain for their fanbase and the recent release of Imperator which was a complete joke. Now they are doing timed EGS exclusives. SOURCE Going public killed the soul of the company.
Oh, Paradox.... even your URL schemes are insanely over-complicated. <3
edit: Well that appears to have broken some things. Even the background color decided to give up about 1/4th of the way through. :P
It seems like this URL can be cleanly pruned:
https://www.paradoxplaza.com/news?aid=Paradox+Interactive+Expands+its+Surviving+Franchise+with+Surviving+the+Aftermath
I'm quite curious about what data is contained in that messy monolithic jumble of info, though.
Edit: The jumble of data is the following, base64 encoded:
{"title":"Paradox%20Interactive%20Expands%20its%20Surviving%20Franchise%20with%20Surviving%20the%20Aftermath","img":"//images.ctfassets.net/s1cu6ii344ub/49acASRtgslav4umBY8vbK/a451a07cff25e8e6526e8508ae4a7f97/Surviving_the_Aftermath_Teaser.png","description":"Post-apocalyptic%20survival%20colony%20builder%20launching%20late%202020%2C%20more%20info%20to%20be%20revealed%20at%20PDXCON"}7...why? why would you need that in a URL? what system would ever put that in there?
It's just bizarre overall. If you mouse over the linked page's title, you get another different link format: https://www.paradoxplaza.com/news/article/Paradox%20Interactive%20Expands%20its%20Surviving%20Franchise%20with%20Surviving%20the%20Aftermath/metadata/<same chunk of base64>
But in that case, if you cut off the
/metadata/and everything after it, the link doesn't work. So the metadata is essential for that url scheme, but optional in this one.I also previously had to add code to Tildes specifically to make Paradox's forum urls exempt from the url-processing code that does some clean-up and modifications: https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/blob/master/tildes/tildes/lib/url_transform.py#L50
Their forums use urls that are... well, I don't know if they're technically invalid, but they're not a normal url structure. For example, they look like this: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?forums/stellaris.900/ (note the query string of
forums/stellaris.900/after the?)When I process that through standard functions in Python's urllib, it comes back as https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?forums%2Fstellaris.900%2F=, which doesn't work and just takes you to the home page instead (it seems to only be the
=on the end that's a problem).I probably could have wrangled it into producing the same url, but the current code works perfectly for practically every other site. I don't know of a single other one with urls like that, so it was simpler to just exempt it from the processing entirely.
LOL. What a mess. But as a Paradox fan, it makes me strangely happy to know there is an explicit exception in the Tildes code just for them. ;)
I think i'm done with Paradox as a company. I've been playing since EU3 and put most of my time into CK2 but own nearly all their games but i've been down on them for a couple of years with lazy DLC, their disdain for their fanbase and the recent release of Imperator which was a complete joke. Now they are doing timed EGS exclusives. SOURCE Going public killed the soul of the company.
Hard times for GSG fans.
Getting an investment from Tencent is unfortunately a good indicator of a declining company.