Stepmania Online

Since StepMania condenses this huge amount of text into the same amount of space, this isn't a huge issue in the SMO lobby. Where the issue really resides is on the SMO home page, where this text can be made to take up tons of space. This is a test I did earlier that shows how obnoxious this situation can be:



I think the way to go about fixing this is by cutting off the name with an ellipsis after a certain amount of characters from the server. The name can stay very long in the lobby since it doesn't break anything by doing so, but letting rooms have the ability to spam the main page is a bit silly. It could look something along the lines of this:



Anyway, hopefully this is something that is rather easy to fix, and something that can be implemented soon. I don't want to see the main page get flooded with spam titles in the future.

This is great news. I'm writing novels for room names/descriptions now.

The data type of the room name in the database might be something like "char 100". You might be able to just set it to "char 20". I don't really know what would happen if you tried setting a char 20 type to a string that has 100 characters though. But if it crashes than you could just use some type of substring method to cut it to size.

Izzy, current rooms are not stored in the database, they're fetched via the RTS system.

I'm not sure whether it's a good idea to change this in the server code or in the web code. Both would work, really.

I see, I guess that would be a pointless amount of queries for such short term storage.

I think it makes more sense to limit it on the website only.

I'll just update it in the web code. One second please...

Looks like this bug is completely resolved:


Graveyard time. Thanks Cube!