Comments by Gus Duniho

I have added the ability to take back moves, and I have removed some more
bugs. Yesterday, the PBM was mailing the wrong URL to users. Instead of
putting your userid in the URL, it would put your opponent's there. That
is now fixed. I also fixed how it displays movelists with branches.

To take back moves, use the drop down menu displaying the movelist to go
back to the last move you want to keep in the game. This should be one of
your opponent's moves, not one of your own. Although the menu is supposed
to disable all of your past moves in the list, Internet Explorer ignores
this. I'll have to change it so that selecting one of your moves takes
you back to one of your opponent's moves. The last move should be one of
your opponent's moves, so that the next move will be yours. You should
not just select the past move in the menu; you should click the 'Go'
button to go back to it. Once the board is updated, you can make a new
move from that point in the game. When you verify your move, your new move
will appear at the end of the movelist, and all moves between it and the
move you went back to will be branched out of the main game. They will
still appear in the movelist, but your new move will now continue the main
branch of the game.

I wholeheartedly concur with the similarly named guy who posted the last
message.

For security reasons, signing in with an OpenID will first sign you out of any accounts you are in. If the OpenID you are signing into matches one linked to an account, it will sign you into the account. If the OpenID does not match any OpenIDs linked to accounts, but its verified email address matches an email address that is used for exactly one account, it will sign you into that account, and it will link the OpenID you signed in with with that account. So if you then sign in with a different OpenID account that has the same verified email address, it will not sign you into your account, and it will not change the OpenID associated with your account.

The security risk is that if you walk away from your computer while signed on, someone else could sign in with an OpenID and gain access to your userid. By signing you out of your account first, this security risk is eliminated. If you want to change the OpenID linked to your account, you will have to do it by first signing in with an OpenID, then signing into your CVP account. As I have time, I'll also add a confirmation on that, so that you cannot change which OpenID is linked to your account by accident.

Both of those games had empty logs, and the backups were empty too. So, there was nothing left to do but delete them. I suppose moves were made while fpd-indexing-funcs.php was buggy, and this caused the logs and backups to be written as empty files.

Thanks to some technical difficulties having to do with erroneous reports of the disk space being full, Game Courier wrote some empty logs and backups yesterday and maybe earlier too. When both the log and its backup are empty, there is no more record of the game unless it can be recontructed from the emails sent to both players. If you are unable to do this, it would be best to delete your log using the Delete link provided on this page. You can delete your log as long as you are one of the players, or I can do it if need be. It is important to go through Game Courier to delete logs, because it will also handle deleting database entries for those logs.

I suppose it is not going to notify me of comments from my own account. Let's try this again.

The OS is Rocky Linux 8.6.

Hi Kevin and HG. Alas I can't see what is your discussion about cause of a distinction between Private and Member Only. I didn't notice this distinction before, but it is a change which is frustrating as being not an editor I can't see.

This distinction was made at your request, and you provided feedback when I working on it. And now you're saying you haven't noticed it?

this is not friendly. Either the full discussion is private and I see nothing at all, either is not and as a Member I should see everything.

I should not have been able to read this comment from this account, and you should not have been able to read any comments on this page. Likewise, I should not be able to post here from this account, yet if you're reading this, I did. I will have to close these holes in the security of private pages.