Sorry for the delay. It's been a busy few days for me and I didn't have a chance to post the solution.
Doing Inspect Element on the post will show you that the code dsfXNci6 I posted is a pastebin link pointing to https://pastebin.com/dsfXNci6. The text there looks pretty mysterioius, but it also has some patterns. The answer is to add new lines to the text to reveal that it is ASCII art which tells you the code. You can see the final result here. https://pastebin.com/d4MZQQdV
How do the hints relate?
Hint 1 refers to this part of TomasMacMordain's previous puzzle which involved converting a long line of text into the ASCII art rectangle
Hint 2 suggests that you can take the length of the text and factor it. Here, the length was 2461, which is 23x107. The final ASCII art is 23 rows with 107 columns
Hint 3's ASCII art looks like this. The main difference is that it doesn't have spaces in case that trips some people up when inserting new lines.
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sorry but i still don't see the code in the ascii art....
and i have my glasses on
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dsfXNci6
Level 1+
Lair of the Clockwork God
Autonauts
Osteoblasts
Pure Farming 2018
Hint 1 This puzzle was heavily inspired by a part of one of TomasMacMordain's previous puzzles
Hint 2 Despite the length of the text, there are only a couple of factors to consider
Hint 3 An equivalent puzzle can be found at crbYit7c
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