I just fixed problem on Gamingstats that affected all of the users. This time invalid username was filtered to empty string, causing updating process to halt. Problematic user is now removed from the system, but the bug is still there. I try to fix it tomorrow or something.
I am not sure if I continue to support this project. It has way too many problems. First is that changes to Steamcommunity usually breaks up my system and I have to find out the changes and it takes lot of time. (this time the problem was my fault, but yeah). Another thing that kills my motivation is that I don’t use this site anymore myself. So it isn’t anymore so fun to work with it. It is more like a job that I don’t get money for.
Most likely I am going to close the application, release it under GPL license and move forward. There is only couple of users that uses the service and I think that the system is way too buggy. I had to rewrite the parser because my webhost didn’t had all the plugins and stuff that I used when I coded on local development server. Because of that, the updater doesn’t have the best stability with bad input…
I was going to sleep one hour ago, but because the system didn’t work as I expected I wasted one hour trying to fix it. And my website also went down once when I tried to fix it, so I am not very happy with this project currently.
So yeah back to sleep now… ->