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@damikon8
You can send a url request to mojang and they reply with a html page with either the word true or false on if if the account exists or not. I assume They're just checking that page. -
@Cyanite but mojang have to proceed request to they db to check if it is available or not. So they got 72k request not only to they site and to they db also (in big generalization cuz i dont know what happening under presentation layer)
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@AlgoRythm per Ip ? If you are bored you can try parallelization ;)
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@damikon8 They didn't mention how they tracked the requests but I assume per IP. I honestly don't need it to go faster because I need to manually sort all of the usernames that come back as "Available"... About 4,000 so far.
Interesting statistic from the data gathered so far: about 30% of the English language is available as a Minecraft username; 70% of the English language is already in use as a Minecraft username.
And thank you :)
[Edit: typos. New phone :/] -
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@AlgoRythm yeah sure, what's your name there, I'll add you :)
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I feel like people don't understand what I mean when I say "I'm a console gamer"
No questions asked
As a Python user and the fucking unicode mess, this is sooooo mean!
Interesting thing I did yesterday:
This is a program which loops over every word in the wamerican word database and checks if the username is available on the Mojang servers, thus, this is a Minecraft OG username finder, and it works beautifully.
I'm checking 72,000 words, the only thing is I can only check one per second, so the entire process takes about 20 hours. Any usernames which are available are sent into a text file for later viewing, and it remembers which word it looked at last if you can't have your computer on for 20 hours straight.
Very happy! Found quite a few good names so far!
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