Invite question

How is inviting supposed to work?

When I try to invite someone, I put their name in, I click the button and nothing obviously happens. If I reload their name doesn't appear anywhere.

I'm running Chrome on a Windows and don't run into issues with other parts of the site, functionally... so maybe it's me!

When you put their name in, it checks if they're in the game. If not, when you push the button, it should instantly show them in the invited section. There's some bug I haven't been able to find yet.

okee dokee. I tried with Firefox and got the same behavior. The invite button doesn't seem to do anything. Can I grab any source or anything to assist with troubleshooting?

Invites are an AJAX call; if you know how to read the Chrome or FF console, and want to see what response the server is giving, it may be an error I somehow didn't account for and thus aren't displaying (or I made a mistake in it's display).

Ack. I'll take a look when I'm back on a non-mobile.

When I look at Chrome's developer tools I see the search for the user in the Network tab, but there's zero activity in Network when I click on Invite. It's almost as if the URL for the button is empty. So, naturally, I wander over to look at it again, and I type in the name, and do a search and click on the button and...

...it works.

Next time I see this, I promise to do a little more digging and provide a better error report.

No worries. This is why I've had a hard time fixing this one, heh. However, seems like something is preventing the Ajax call from triggering on occasion, which I didn't think k of.

I just had an issue inviting Friar_Tuk into a game. I also noticed that the invitation that I had sent to skutulhu previously wasn't showing up on the page. I posted another couple of times on the site then went back and tried again, and this time the previous invite showed up and the invitation went through okay.

EDIT: Running Chrome on a Mac.

Invite has been strangely buggy for a bit, and I haven't been able to figure out why. Locally it works fine, which means it's a production problem, and I can't tell if it's a problem with the interface (eg, the system not accurately telling users something has gone wrong) or code that's failing without throwing errors.

SO do you know of any work arounds right now to get players into the game we are playing?

You can always keep an game open, allow anyone to join, and only accept the people you want, closing the game and rejecting the rest once you do. I still haven't found why it works for some people and not others.

I've tried to invite a couple of peeps, no joy. What it looks like is when I click Invite, nothing seems to happen as if the button was inert. I haven't tried hounding the click like a lab rat looking for cheeses.

I've noticed some odd things in the past when inviting people to games. While on the page hitting the invite button appears to do nothing, but when I visit the 'Game Details' page in some other manner, the invite appears to have been sent. Let me try an experiment with Qralloq and one of my games.

I'll get back with the results (and Qralloq, I apologize in advance for any unwanted invites that may come your way).

Got the invite.

So this time, when sending the invite, I actually saw that Qralloq was listed in the "Invited" list. This doesn't usually happen, but in the past I will still occasionally see the invitee in the "Invited" list if I visit the games page via the "Games" link via the floating menu up top.

Whenever I visit the page via the "Game Detail" link while in the games forum the invitee list is ALWAYS blank.
Whenever I visit the page via the floating menu (Games"->"Games I'm Running"->"Yet Another...") I will sometimes see the invitees in the list, but it's never very consistent.

EDIT: It's not showing up at all anymore.

Before hitting the invite button:


After hitting the invite button (worked this time):


Visiting from the game's forum "Game Detail" link (the one along the bottom of the screen):


Visiting from the main menu "Games"->"Games I'm Running"->"Yet Another..."

Yah, these are the same kinds of inconsistencies I get. I may have to just delete all the code driving it and start over again.

Most often I get 0 activity in my developer console when I'm inviting someone and nothing happens. It's like the linked code/action isn't referenced.