A Phoenix is NOT easily defeated!
So, I announced a few days ago that I was suspending MediaMiner posts of Phoenix: Reignited for two main reasons:
Their editor breaks formatting for things like italics
I get no notifications when I get a comment
Well, the other day I noticed Fanfiction.net was also breaking formatting, and I found a fix for it. I thought, what the hell, I'll see if that fixed formatting works on MediaMiner, and lo! It does! So, that solves one of the two issues that cost me the platform. But… what about the other? If I could solve that…
Well, it turns out MediaMiner doesn't have a true comment system; it backports comments to a forum. I found the URL to the actual forum. I then wrote a web scraper that sorts it by most recent, polls the first three pages (the 90 most recently-commented chapters, and currently Page 1 goes all the way back to August, so that should be plenty safe.) It parses every thread looking for Phoenix: Reignited and if it finds one, yanks out all the relevant data. It then dumps that into an RSS feed on ThePhoenixSaga.com, and then I set up a free RSS monitoring automation on Zapier to check that RSS feed and email me if any new items are detected.
Like. A. Bawss. EDIT: For any other fanfiction graybeards out there who still have stuff on MediaMiner, I open sourced the scraper script. Enjoy it! https://github.com/AnneIsOminous/mediaminermonitor
