Chat

[Downer]

There is wireless internet at the hotel (I think)

Well we know the answer to that now, don't we? Bet he's on chat tonight - when the Guiness mine shuts.

 

[menacer]

I dont think it does shut ..... 

 

[cap n chris]

Had a drivelly natter with Gnomie and Les earlier and they promised they'd be down the Virtual Hunters later this evening after getting a quick pissed caving trip ticked off this avo.

 

[Downer]

Had a drivelly natter with Gnomie and Les earlier and they promised they'd be down the Virtual Hunters later this evening after getting a quick pissed caving trip ticked off this avo.

Hmm...  :-\

 

[Peter Burgess]

How is it that every time I come on line, there is one user in Chat. Not always the same user, but usually only 1. Are we supposed to take it in turns to keep the room occupied? Are users serving a couple of hours solitary confinement? What do you do in chat all by yourself? Should I even ask this question?

 

[graham]

I think that if one person has been in & left then the software declares them as leaving when you arrive.

 

[Peter Burgess]

I'm not entering chat, I'm looking at the 'Users Online' information at the bottom of the home page. You are shown as the only user in Chat at the moment, Graham.

 

[graham]

I'm not entering chat, I'm looking at the 'Users Online' information at the bottom of the home page. You are shown as the only user in Chat at the moment, Graham.

When someone else logs in, it'll notice I'm no longer there & tell 'em I've just left.

 

[Downer]

As far as I can tell there's a bug in the software so it doesn't actively check if you're still in chat when the total number is down to one. If you log out of chat like you're supposed to, it seems to clear alright, but who bothers? Most people just close the window or log out of ukCaving. Then the chat software doesn't get notified and the bug strikes, leaving the last person to use chat apparently still there, like a ghost...

What Graham is seeing is the probably the same thing. If Graham is the "ghost" and I log in, the software suddenly sees that there are two users in chat, springs into action and does its normal checks. Lo-and-behold, Graham is no longer there. So it tells me he's just left.

I imagine it is a bit of scrambled thinking on the part of the programmer. There will be special considerations when there is only one user left. For example, it may be that the software stops checking whether Graham is still there once he's the only person left, because there'll be nobody left to tell when he finally leaves. It would be quite easy to overlook the need to check anyway for the sake of the  "current users in chat" and "Elvis has left the building" features.

 

[bubba]

This is a known issue - i've raised a question about it in the product forums to see if there's any easy solution.