Byond Website Glitch - Live/Not Live Entry

ID:107411
 
Jan 22 2011, 2:20 am
BYOND Version:479
Operating System:Windows XP Home
Web Browser:Firefox 3.6.13
Applies to:Website
Status: Unverified
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Descriptive Problem Summary: Sometimes, after viewing a recent hub entry and you have watched/followed it, shortly after changing pages it will attempt to show it live in the hub-listings at the top of the page.

Numbered Steps to Reproduce Problem:
(Example Game)
1. Go to a game hub (My choice - Naruto: Evolution)
2. Click favorite/follow, and join the waiting list.
3. Wait one minute, and go to another page.
4. Game is suddenly live on hub, but upon returning to page, is still offline.

Code Snippet (if applicable) to Reproduce Problem:


Expected Results:
To NOT see this hub entry online.

Actual Results:
It was online.

Does the problem occur:
Every time? Every time for me.
In other games? Never attempted.
In other user accounts? Yes.
On other computers? Yes, My PC and my Laptop.

When does the problem NOT occur?
When I do not have the game followed/watched.


Workarounds:
Don't follow the game and just...refresh the page every so often.

Jan 24 2011, 4:23 am
I think what you're seeing is not a bug, but just a side effect of the necessity of caching the live games for a few minutes. If one of your followed games is detected live at the moment the headbar is generated, but doesn't stay up long, that could be responsible for what you're seeing.

However in order to investigate this we need more information. Specifically, we at least need to know which games this has happened with (please provide links to the hub entries). I can't guarantee results just from that, but need some basis for reproducing the issue.