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Bill Clinton Swag

Hey folks, any feedback for https://billclintonswag.com/ ?

It's a site I recently rebuilt that is a meme generator that people can use to create their own customized Bill Clinton Swag images. I've eventually planning on adding a store to it. The Google Analytics suggests that the conversion from landing on the site to generating an image is pretty good, but i'm curious about what your thoughts are?

Thanks in advance!

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on March 15, 2020
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    Maybe just allow people to upload their own images instead of doing the whole album search thing?

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    Hey folks thanks for all the patience with the search issues over the past two days. I think i've come up with a solution that should be pretty resilient for the bit. It's unfortunately a bit slower than the original search solution, but at least it won't break

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      I’m still getting the same issue as lot of people. Album art is still blank when I search for my favorite albums :(

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      I'm also having the same issue of an error and blank box when i search for two of my albums. The website is great other than that though. Thank you.

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    I think the website is broken, when i search any album nothing comes up. I tried my phone and pc

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    Hey I like it however every time I type in an album name and the artist it says it loading and then the screen is just white and the album doesn’t come up. They’re well known albums too and I’ve tried this using my iPhone data and WiFi

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      Sorry about that, i'm working on a more lasting solution. Right now I put in some quick fixes to help mitigate the number of API requests we're making so we can more consistently get search results. Unfortunately the site has gotten too popular for the APIs i'm using

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    Whenever I type in any album name, nothing pops up. It shows that the engine is searching, but no results ever pop up. The albums I've tried are also fairly popular.

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      I’m having the same issue. :/

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        Sorry about that, the API rate limits are kicked in again. More than 7k people are actively on the site. This got way more popular than I expected. We're hitting API rate limits, i'm working on some fixes

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          Will it be fixed today?

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    Hey there, I seem to be having the same problem mentioned in an earlier comment, a white screen when I tried on my phone in Safari, and nothing dropping down on my computer browsers. I tried Chrome, and safari, but nothing is dropping down when i search an album on my laptop, it acts like it's loading but nothing shows up.

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      Hey sorry about that, i'm hitting some API rate limits, i'm deploying some stuff to help mitigate. Thanks for your patience 🙏

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    It won’t load and screen keeps crashing

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    It keeps on crashing :(

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      Oh no! I just tested it myself it seems to work, can you send me a screenshot of your errors?

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        it literally just is a white screen that says unexpected error occurred

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        Mine also keeps crashing. “Unexpected error occurred”

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              Ah sorry can you give me a bit more information, what page of the site? Which albums are you trying to add?

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                  Oh no! I’ll dig into this today, what browser are you using? Also what region of the world? This may have to do with the API I’m using to look up the album art from

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                      Alright, I think I did something to help with the rate limiting, it should hopefully get back to normal. Thanks for your patience!

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                      Ah yea, I think I just fixed it. It looks like the issue was that I was getting rate limited by the music search API I was using. The code didn't gracefully handle the rate limiting error. I deployed a hotfix right now that at least won't make the site crash, but it'll drop the search results, which still isn't good. I'll come up with a better solution sometime today.

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    It's great so far. But how can I add an image of an album that won't show up automatically?

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      Not supported currently, but that's a good idea. Right now it only shows the top 5 results from LastFM search engine. I don't think it would be that hard to support an image uploading service. I'll add that to the backlog!

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    Hey thanks everyone for filing bugs and the kind words. Sorry I haven't been super responsive, got a bunch of stuff going on right now. The site is powered by last.fm with a few hacks on top of it so I can't always guarantee the quality of the data, that's in last.fm's control and it would be too much for me to take on myself. I'm astounded by the virality of this project, I've done over 40M page views this month. Absolutely insane. Thank you so much

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    i'd love to use this site, but i've been trying over the past two days and whenever I press "Generate Swag" i'm redirected to a page that says "500 Internal Server Error" and "The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there is an error in the application." hope to use it soon!

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    The album search worked perfectly for me! Most of them were kinda mainstream though, so I’m not sure if if that helps it. I just ordered a shirt; it’ll probably take a while but I can’t wait to get it!!! Great job mate.

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    I was searching for my music as an album cover, but it's a blank record. I don't know if it's possible to add mine. Either way, what you're doing is dope.

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    When i try to hit “generate swag” it just brings me to a page that says internal server error. Is that getting fixed?

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    429 error keeps popping up :(

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    Every time i try to make a meme I put my albums in no problem and as soon as i hit the publish button it sends me to a white screen with “ 429: TOO_MANY_REQUESTS
    Code: INTERNAL_FUNCTION_RATE_LIMIT
    ID: yul1::kd4gw-1587491615512-9fcbef26892e” on it, any chance that this will be fixed?

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      I'm on the phone with my server guys, thanks for the error code that helps!

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    429 error too many requests

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    Hey I got my albums to load now I’m getting a 429 error. Anything on that?

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    I'm getting an error 429: too many requests

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      Sorry about that, it was another scaling issue. It should be fixed now

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    One of the albums I wanted to put doesnt have its image show up. I believe it is because the band who made it is really tight up the ass about copyright, as it didnt work for similar websites. it doesn't show up in the search unless I search the artists name (the specific album is Red by King Crimson). I was wondering if you could allow users to upload their own images?

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    Has the album loading issue been resolved? Because it seems to work sometimes for other people but they still won't load for me.

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    Everytime I go on the website I will type in album names and it says loading but the screen stays white and the album doesn't come up. I see that other people are having the same issues, plus I have refreshed the page multiple times and it still isn't working. Sometimes I can get one album to pop up but the rest stay blank. How can this get fixed?

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      Long term I need to find a different album search API, right now i've just throttled the number of requests it'll make. Sorry about that, i'm working on it :)

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    It won’t work - I get sent to a site with a black and white photo with preview stamped across it, and when I search for any album it appears to load but shows nothing

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      Sorry about that, just woke up. Looks like we're hitting those API rate limits, i'm investigating a better longer term solution. For now i've put some quick fixes in that should help

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    its so good! but Josie Proto has two banging songs and shes on there but the artwork isn’t working :(( there called BTEC Lily Allen and Sliced Bread please can you fix that so i can make it :) x

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    hi! everytime i type an album name into the search bar it loads then no albums show up. i’ve tried restarting the website a few times and closing the safari app but nothing’s working. do u know what could be wrong?

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      Yup, I hit some API rate limits on the search service i'm using, i'm deploying some stuff that should help fix it

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        Still not working for me. I think sending API requests every keystroke is a bit much. Might be worth considering a different trigger for loading up the album cover suggestions

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        thank you so much :) it’s working now!

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    Used this in the past, loved it, recently refound it again, would love to be able to add my own images in it-albums it doesn't find in it's list anywhere.

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      Already added to the backlog :) Glad you like it. I'm working on doing some custom merch based on the swags you generate on the site? Figure I could make some extra cash to pay for the servers. Do you think people would be interested in that?

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