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Skype status icon missing

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    #2
    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    His Skype ID was not a valid Skype Id and hence the magic Skype image link didn't return an image.

    I've removed what he had in the Skype ID field on his profile and I'll have a look at the Skype ID validation code now.


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    Conor
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    DonnieBrasco was one of 21 users who had invalid Skype IDs. Since they don't comply with the validator, I can only assume that they entered those IDs back before there was any validation done on those fields.

    All the people with Skype IDs which would fail the current validation have now had them reset.


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    astrofool
    Registered Users Posts: 16,610 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    Looks like it's fixed, can a skype ID go invalid after being validated? i.e. user close the account? Is that handled, or too much of an edge case to worry about?

    If skype change the icon location/size/shape, will that not break the site also?

    My biggest worry was that when the icon wasn't available, the size was being set so large (255*30) instead of being set to 16*16.


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    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    astrofool wrote: »
    Looks like it's fixed, can a skype ID go invalid after being validated? i.e. user close the account? Is that handled, or too much of an edge case to worry about?

    The problem wasn't that the Skype ID was valid but pointed to an account that didn't exist. The problem was that the Skype ID wasn't valid at all and rather than fail gracefully with the "not logged in" image, Skype saw fit to return a 404.
    astrofool wrote: »
    If skype change the icon location/size/shape, will that not break the site also?

    Yes, but unfortunately I can't control that without losing the online/offline indication.
    astrofool wrote: »
    My biggest worry was that when the icon wasn't available, the size was being set so large (255*30) instead of being set to 16*16.

    Yeah, I don't know what that's about. I can't see any indication of it within vBulletin.


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