Taming the Wild Blab (Chat Software Change Log)

[Solaris]

Suggestion:

TourneyPotato; An AveragePotato that resides in the Tourney Room, and only notifies about posts made in the PvP Tournaments section, so that us TO's don't have to have two chat tabs open (or refresh unread posts every 30 seconds) to update the challonge.

[UTAlan]

Suggestion:

TourneyPotato; An AveragePotato that resides in the Tourney Room, and only notifies about posts made in the PvP Tournaments section, so that us TO's don't have to have two chat tabs open (or refresh unread posts every 30 seconds) to update the challonge.

Done.

[Ginyu]

Thank you, UTA!

[CleanOnion]

The l/j timestamps appear to be exactly one minute behind the message timestamps

EDIT: That might be my end. I'm actually not sure

EDIT: The l/j timestamps match my computer time but I think my computer time is a minute behind. My end, or coincidence?

[UTAlan]

Masters can now go invisible.

Invisible users can now PM other users. Also, users receiving PMs (from invisible & visible users) can now open the PM window by clicking on the username in the PM itself.

[Kuroaitou]

Masters can now go invisible.

Invisible users can now PM other users. Also, users receiving PMs (from invisible & visible users) can now open the PM window by clicking on the username in the PM itself.

Thank you again UTA...

...and now ghosting resumes as normal. >:)

[CleanOnion]

I don't seem to receive PMs unless I am currently looking at Blab's tab.

To test this, I opened Blab in two windows:

 - on Chrome, logged in as CleanOnion
 - on Edge, logged in as Denvis

I sent a few messages back and forth between the two accounts.



Left: Denvis on Edge; Right: CleanOnion on Chrome

Before any PMs were sent, both instances of Blab were working normally.

When I sent message from Chrome to Edge, the messages appeared normally despite that window not being focused. I did not enable notifications but I can assume that they would work normally too.

When I sent messages from Edge to Chrome, they did not appear on screen. Furthermore, for as long as Chrome was not the active window, Blab did not update further and no other chat messages were received. This erroneous behaviour continued until I made Chrome my active window, at which point the missing messages appeared simultaneously (with correct timestamps).

This is problematic because it means I can no longer receive notifications for PMs received while away.

The debugging console told me, each time a message failed to appear:


This line in blab.js is


The error is being caused by "/blab_from">(.*?)</.exec(split[i])" being null. While I attempted to tinker around a little bit to fix it, I was unsuccessful.

I don't know if that is what is causing the error.

Conclusion: bug on Chrome (my Chrome, at least) means I cannot receive PMs while AFK, and if someone attempts to PM me I don't receive any other messages either.

This one's a bit of a bummer


Additionally, I discovered that the common error in which Blab stops sending or receiving any messages and the only solution is to refresh is caused by this error:

caused by


I don't know how to fix that. Although it happened on Edge after a few minutes, it hasn't happened to me on Chrome for a long time.

[iancudorinmarian]

I've been having something like that too. Chat seemed silent and all of the sudden a swarm of messages were appearing. Pretty annoying.

[CleanOnion]

The issue is widespread

[TheonlyrealBeef]

Also getting the pm-issue on Firefox, some people -myself included- are now also missing the "away", "pictures" and "ignore" buttons.

[rob77dp]

I've been having something like that too. Chat seemed silent and all of the sudden a swarm of messages were appearing. Pretty annoying.

I am also now experiencing this almost non-stop. It used to be (months and months) intermittently occurring but now basically every time I use chat and tab-away then tab-back a flood of activity appears.

[worldwideweb3]

experiencing the pm issue from time to time. Rest seems fine though.