Message title: Chat bugfixes
Message author: Digit
Posting date: 2001.02.21 - 06:01am
There was a minor bug that came as a consequence of the fix for
capitalization spoofing, that would allow multiple copies of your
character to be logged in at once; that has been fixed.
Characters created with no password are now automatically deleted
upon logout (or timeout.) Please note that, there is a minor bug that
I haven't found yet with this feature: when a character that has no
password logs out/times out, the chat will hang for about 2 seconds,
then work fine... I'm working on it :)
I purged all of the characters with no password by hand from the
database. Please remember to delete characters that you create by
accident or don't plan to use anymore; the more of them there are in
the chat's database, the slower the chat will go. We currently have
200 characters in the database, though I susbect about 15% of those
are "dead" accounts. I may instate a periodic character purge in the
future for users who either logged in only once, or who did not use
their character in a specified duration of time (say, two or
three months.) For the time being, however, the database is of a
manageable size...
Finally, the character database listing no longer marks accounts with
no password with an asterisk (*); that was a temporary thing mostly
for debugging when I couldn't get the delete-on-logout-if-no-password
code working before.
As always, expect new bugs to crop up as features are added and old
ones are fixed. Your feedback either on this message board or directly
at [email protected] is appreciated.
-Digit