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disneywaittimes.com Issues?

j0e1306

j0e1306

Member
Original Poster
Hi All,

I was really looking forward to using disneywaititmes.com on my up coming trip but the site has had an error the last week or so saying that real wait times are not currently available. I know the creator of the site posted on here about it before (for the life of me I can't find the original thread?!) so does anyone know what's up with it?
 
Hakunamatata

Hakunamatata

Le Meh
j0e1306 said:
Hi All,

I was really looking forward to using disneywaititmes.com on my up coming trip but the site has had an error the last week or so saying that real wait times are not currently available. I know the creator of the site posted on here about it before (for the life of me I can't find the original thread?!) so does anyone know what's up with it?
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Possibly he was using unauthorized access to information?
 
englanddg

englanddg

One Little Spark...
Tom said:
That would be my guess. I think he was pulling data straight from Disney's site, and there are probably a lot of legal no-no's involved.
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Yes. And I covered it at the time in that first thread.

Not really shocking that the site is down. :P
 
mousehockey37

mousehockey37

Well-Known Member
Tom said:
That would be my guess. I think he was pulling data straight from Disney's site, and there are probably a lot of legal no-no's involved.
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He was being very shady when he was questioned about how he made his site and was acquiring his information.

Could this be a subtle example that Disney has brass watching these boards? I mean, if in fact he was somewhat "shutdown" by Disney, this site was where he was promoting his product.
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

Well-Known Member
In the Parks
No
mousehockey37 said:
Could this be a subtle example that Disney has brass watching these boards? I mean, if in fact he was somewhat "shutdown" by Disney, this site was where he was promoting his product.
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I think Disney would be stupid not to watch what goes on with social media and on boards like this one.
 
mousehockey37

mousehockey37

Well-Known Member
j0e1306 said:
Hi All,

I was really looking forward to using disneywaititmes.com on my up coming trip but the site has had an error the last week or so saying that real wait times are not currently available. I know the creator of the site posted on here about it before (for the life of me I can't find the original thread?!) so does anyone know what's up with it?
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Here's the thread with the creator and the subsequent conversation about his site: http://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/too-crowded.893959/page-13#post-6479824
 
mousehockey37

mousehockey37

Well-Known Member
englanddg said:
Hrm...that's not the one I was thinking of.

There was someone who'd done something similar before...but maybe it wasn't wait times...cause that happened well before that thread...

I'm confuzzling myself!

Thx for finding it though!
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I searched and that's the one I remember where it snowballed... Perhaps the mods exercised some Disney magic and made it vanish...
 
englanddg

englanddg

One Little Spark...
mousehockey37 said:
I searched and that's the one I remember where it snowballed... Perhaps the mods exercised some Disney magic and made it vanish...
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Yeah, or it could be the ADR site someone did a while ago that was using bot MDE accounts and screen scrapes to get ADRs...

I don't recall... But, yeah, what he's doing for that site...probably not the best idea. :P
 
j0e1306

j0e1306

Member
Original Poster
The site itself doesn't appear to go down but there is a message stating 'Actual wait times are currently unavailable. Posted wait times, attraction status, show times, and character meet and greet times are still available.' on the top of the pages...
 
englanddg

englanddg

One Little Spark...
mousehockey37 said:
The website is running. The posted wait time is running, it's the elusive "real time" wait that is missing. This is the speculation of where he got the info from.
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j0e1306 said:
The site itself doesn't appear to go down but there is a message stating 'Actual wait times are currently unavailable. Posted wait times, attraction status, show times, and character meet and greet times are still available.' on the top of the pages...
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Ah.
 
mousehockey37

mousehockey37

Well-Known Member
j0e1306 said:
The site itself doesn't appear to go down but there is a message stating 'Actual wait times are currently unavailable. Posted wait times, attraction status, show times, and character meet and greet times are still available.' on the top of the pages...
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Right, and the bragging point of this site is the part that has gotten "shut down". That being the "actual" wait time.
 
Tom

Tom

Beta Return
mousehockey37 said:
Here's the thread with the creator and the subsequent conversation about his site: http://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/too-crowded.893959/page-13#post-6479824
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Yup, definitely the one I was thinking of. He was somehow pulling data right off the MDE wait time app/site. So, either Disney caught wind of it through sites like this, or they saw the insane number of data queries from the same IP address, and said, "Nope!"

Disney owns the data. He was stealing the data for his own commercial use (whether selling it or not). Dumb.
 
mousehockey37

mousehockey37

Well-Known Member
I found through a search and seeing a link from him on another thread that the disneywaittimes app comes from Spot Mickey on Twitter who also runs blogmickey.com. He's got the wait time app all detailed out over there.
 

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