While my site is still under construction, I somehow managed to get something temporary going with web links!..

I really wanted the dragon counter from http://boingdragon.com/types.html to work.. I have seen it years ago on peoples websites.

It being so old it uses http instead of https.. So it will not load. Doesn't work with am image proxy either. :<

I wonder how BoingDragon is going these days?

@Flute Yeah… had a peek at it, it sadly seems (from my minimal testing) like it determines unique hits based off of IP addresses, which any proxy would lose. HOWEVER, if you’re willing to put in a little work getting it set up, they DID have downloads for the old C version of the counters! Looking at the code, it’s certainly… “charming,” the entire animation is generated from pixel arrays, and I’m unfamiliar with CGI so I can’t actually vouch that it’s safe to run this on a webserver exposed to the internet. It is an option though, hah…

https://web.archive.org/web/20120302143410/http://boingdragon.com/downloads.html

correction: sadly it’s just one part of two parts needed, you’d just point the actual boingdragon account you made at your own webserver, hah. It DOES still generate images, though you have to figure out what to pass to it, and I feel bad poking through and changing someone else’s work without permission

@mark Huh, didn't know they released it like that. I do have another idea to make my own dragon counter animation and maybe using a more modern method to make it work etc... XD

I can do the art, but the coding part is beyond my talents haha

@Flute
oh my gosh, it looks so cute!! jsdf I am legitimately jealousss >v<
aaa and the lil dragon counter in the corner is really the cherry on the top, gosh, I can't explain it but it adds such a good vibe~

@peckish Aww, really? It wasn't really that hard to make~ You can certainly make your own if you tried! ^V^

@Flute I’d love to see it if you go about making it! I know I would definitely add it to my own site if you’d make it public.

(also final update on the original counter, though I don’t want to discourage you from trying to make your own, I think you might be able to get it to work if you use https://images.weserv.nl/?url=cgi.boingdragon.com/count/[your account name]/0.gif&output=gif&n=-1 instead of what you’ve got currently. the end bit there just makes it render a gif, which it doesn’t seem to do automatically xP)

@mark I will have to give it a shot! And as for sharing it, I am not sure, I plan on making my own one actually look like me! Hahah!

@mark As for your suggestion, that certainly now made it animate now! Though I don't think it will count sadly. XD

@Flute Yeah... one step closer at least x>. And, fair enough! Will still be awesome to see for sure. I need to rewrite my own hit counter someday myself...

@mark maybe I can trade with you to right the code for mine? X)

@Flute pfffftt, if you'd like to! I was thinking about releasing the code for mine publicly anyways, so I'd be more than willing to share it! (once I actually finish it, eheh)

@mark I will have to see what I can do! Would love to collaborate x}