I want to start off by saying this thread comes from a place of reflection. It's tone you can take however you want but I think some of you in this community expect this from me. You're just dying to blame me for every little problem on HF. I'll accept the blame. I'll take it all. Blame me all you want.

So here goes..

I'm sorry for being such a bad admin of HF. I don't deserve this site. I don't deserve to have this community. I don't have the skills to bring HF to the next level so we sit as we are. I'm lazy, I don't do enough. I have a bad temper and do irrational actions like delete dedicated members. I'm cruel and callous. I often just don't give a shit at all. I'm sorry that HF is "dying" and that activity is so low. It's absolutely completely my fault and no one else. I shouldn't have deleted your friends. I should have updated HF more frequently. I'm behind the times. HF looks old and its boring. I only really care about making money. I absolutely don't try hard enough. I'm not as dedicated as I was 10 years ago. I'm a terrible human being. I am not a good person. I'm sorry for it all.

Does that make you all feel better? I think of a group of people having an intervention with an alcoholic just to tell him he's got an alcohol problem. As if that person doesn't know his problems. But if something like this helps you, I'm all for it. You want to beat me up and tell me how bad I am, go for it.

This quote from Joker in Dark Knight came to mind while coming up with the apology....

Quote:You know... You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan". But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds. Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos.

I'm very far along now with getting the work done for AI. Just gonna show off what's probably 20+ hours of work on this.

Basically I created a few files, main one is a stanley AI class which allows me to send requests and processes responses from OpenAI using their API. Needed an ACP for logs, stats, and I setup a manual submission page for all the testing.

I don't yet have the stats page done but that's not even important and should honestly be very easy compared too everything else.

Still plenty of tweaking left, some options like possibly choosing which model to use based on group would be nice. Can't be sure OpenAI respects that var switch. So far my testing doesn't seem to be good but that's high on my list.

Currently we're set for GPT 4.1. It's slightly cheaper and slightly slower but to launch this that's gonna be fine. I might require an upgraded account for 4o.

There is batch API options which also save money but not sure I want to have 20 Stanley posts happen at once. Maybe for some future purpose that would be great.

Right now it's all about 1000 lines of code. I do know that this is right now designed to be a MyBB plugin and if I still had MyBBCentral open I could easily sell this. But that community has always been cheap and I doubt it's worth it.

I want to add that I forgot how much I love coding. Been a minute since I did this deep of a project. Making something from nothing and having it work exactly how you want is what I like to believe hacking is. And while AI helped me tremendously, it's also dumb as shit sometimes and if you don't know how to code you're not getting very far.

Meh, just some sharing and thoughts. Been up since 6am and typing like a madman. Gonna see how much further I can push today before my brain says "NO MORE".

Some tweaking to the class and one of the last steps is actual forum integration.

https://hackforums.net/member.php?action...id=5657238

Let's all welcome Synthia, Stanley's hotter, sexier, and very friendly younger sister.

She's gonna be part of HF as well. Let's all say hello.

Still working hard on this, it's a ton of troubleshooting and minor adjustments. I'm on this hardcore.

That's Stan's very first post.

https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?ti...id62749837

You might see him making a bunch of bullshit testing posts over the next couple days as I work to finish this up.

Also, I think once I'm done, gonna make a 2nd AI Assistant so that Stanley has a sexy sister to be part of HF. More on her later.

https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=6298977

Should I incorporate that into the footer background color chooser?



Personally ever since seeing his backgrounds I've thought those would look amazing on HF. Fairly sure in an hour or less could do this.

Worth it? Want it? Meh?

Give some feedback.