[Rant] Site update slowing Halforums down for 1/2 and hour?!?

[Dave]

Oh. Yeah. Duh.
Added at: 15:08
If I'm posting anonymously it doesn't show me, but when I do the "Show Yourself" it does go to the map, but without a pin.

 

[ElJuski]

So can I have directions so I can both see how this thing works and then figure out how to opt out of it?

 

[Shakey]

Yeah, that's how I found it. Not surprising though, our ISP always seems to display our location info as Madison. Which is where their corporate office is.

 

[Fun Size]

I'm pretty sure this is broken. When I selected "Show Yourself", it just flashed a picture of my penis.

 

[Dave]

To opt out, click the little arrow by your name at the top right and then UNcheck the little box that says "Show Online Status".

 

[ElJuski]

Yeah but how do I even see this map thing? That's my other big confusion.

 

[Dave]

Ah. Members -> Member Map. I could put up a tab for it but wasn't even going to consider it until I got the bugs worked out.

 

[ElJuski]

oh, neat. An unregistered user is currently nine blocks away from my house.

 

[Dave]

Or their pin in. These things range from pretty close to wildly off but still close in a general way.

 

[ElJuski]

so they could be OUTSIDE MY WINDOW

but I'm pretty sure that's just me.

 

[LittleKagsin]

Oooh, thats fun! I feel all alone in the midwest-ish...

I'll try not to stalk anyone to hard.

 

[ElJuski]

I thought you were Canadian or some shit

 

[LittleKagsin]

Nope, not at all.

 

[ElJuski]

mind blown
Added at: 21:46
PS, to the poor bastard that lives in Bloomington, Illinois: dear god I'm sorry.

 

[makare]

Since I am set as invisible does that mean I can just see myself and no one else can see it?

 

[Telephius]

IMO need more Canadians on this thing, I can't be the Most Northiest Canadian that comes to these forums!

EDIT: when I said we needed more northier Canadians I did not mean Regina ;p

 

[Allen who is Quiet]

So I set him to invisible but it seems it doesn't retroactively removes people who set themselves to invisible after the addon is activated. :/

what.

Whoever designed this add-on did not do that good a job at it.

 

[Shakey]

I think it only shows people currently on the site. So they'll drop off when they leave.

 

[Dave]

It's supposed to be a current thing. I'm beginning to wonder if it's more trouble than what it's been worth. I think if we were a much bigger board with more users scattered all over it wouldn't be such a big deal.

 

[Dave]

Oh well. It was a fun experiment.

I'm trying to make things cool around here.

 

[Dave]

There's actually an addon that can do things like the HalBucks...but there's nothing to do with them as of yet. So I haven't bothered.

 

[DarkAudit]

No one even remotely close to my location, but accuracy goes way down as you zoom in.

 

[strawman]

Aw, and here I was thinking of ways to get around it. By taking snapshots of the activity list and the map list periodically one could have eventually figured out which points belong to which members. If the location error is random, one would even be able to average that out over time and get a very close location. If it's not random, then one could figure out the offset with a few tests.

Not that I would have done that (too much work, and for what?) but it's fun to think about security holes...

 

[makare]

I will never love halbucks again for I have loved them and they have taken all my money and run.

 

[Frank]

My location is off by nearly half a city's distance. Where I am is remarkably easy to figure out.

 

[Jax]

I don't see any map options.. The only things available are Registered members, Current visitors and Recent activity

 

[Dave]

It was a failed experiment.

 

[strawman]

It's been disabled due to privacy issues, which the author of the plugin doesn't appear to want to address.

 

[Jax]

Too bad, I was curious as to how accurate it would be for me