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Username showing as Anonymous after submission

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 12:25 am
by Exemptus
What it says on the tin: just noticed it today after submitting a map. My username was displayed correctly on the "Logged in as Exemptus" box, but the submission and comment are displayed as Anonymous. Maybe a recent change has broken something?

Re: Username showing as Anonymous after submission

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 6:45 am
by Mr Creosote
Thanks for reporting this. Indeed, I have a good idea what could be causing this. Do you have the exact links to these items?

@all webmasters, admins, please don't correct them, don't process, don't touch for now.

Re: Username showing as Anonymous after submission

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 10:11 am
by Exemptus
The comment is the one on https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C2 ... C+The.html
There's a map submitted for that same game, but I can't access the link because it's not in my submission's queue any longer (I guess it got added to the Anonymous queue).

Re: Username showing as Anonymous after submission

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 1:10 pm
by Strident
Yeah, I've noticed this for your latest map submission (which I will add but leave in the queue for diagnostic reasons).

A map that OVL submitted a day or so ago was also tagged Anonymous. I knew it was theirs because of the style they use (like I could spot yours instantly) so added it with the appropriate credit.

Re: Username showing as Anonymous after submission

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 1:12 pm
by Strident
Just checked and my comment on the same game shows under my username, where Exemptus' doesn't (shows as anonymous).

Will leave that comment in place for now for diagnostic purposes.

Re: Username showing as Anonymous after submission

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 6:52 pm
by Mr Creosote
Alright, I've checked and deployed a code change which I hope will avoid this issue in the future. Cannot really 100% confirm it, though. I have re-attributed the comment to Exemptus. Feel free to also remove the submission from the queue once processed.

Should this sort of thing occur again, please alert immediately!

Re: Username showing as Anonymous after submission

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 8:46 pm
by Alastair
A quick comment test (since deleted) on a random game was attributed correctly to me so I guess things are back to normal. However the recent activity page credits Anonymous for rating The Eleventh Hour, is this correct or is this another attribution error?

Re: Username showing as Anonymous after submission

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 9:40 pm
by Exemptus
It's an error, that was me too. Thanks all for fixing the snag, by the way.

Re: Username showing as Anonymous after submission

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2025 9:05 am
by Mr Creosote
I re-attributed the rating of The Eleventh Hour.

There are a number of "anonymous" ratings remaining:

Adventure in Time and Space (Anonymous, 26-02-2025 19:20)
Castle Adventure (Anonymous, 23-02-2025 23:39)
Terrors of Trantoss, The (Anonymous, 23-02-2025 07:57)
Empire of the Over-Mind (Anonymous, 23-02-2025 04:14)
Damned Castle, The (Anonymous, 21-02-2025 21:34)
Bronx (Anonymous, 21-02-2025 20:13)

Any indication who that could have been?

Re: Username showing as Anonymous after submission

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2025 11:28 pm
by Alastair
I reckon the problem occurred after DannieGeeko rated a couple of games on the 27th (else why would they be credited to DannieGeeko?) so any game rated by Anonymous before then should be genuine.

Re: Username showing as Anonymous after submission

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 9:46 pm
by Mr Creosote
The site doesn't allow for anonymous ratings, so that cannot be right.

Re: Username showing as Anonymous after submission

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 10:50 pm
by Alastair
Mr Creosote wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 9:46 pm The site doesn't allow for anonymous ratings, so that cannot be right.
So who is https://solutionarchive.com/profile/id%2C1/ ?

Re: Username showing as Anonymous after submission

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 11:25 pm
by Mr Creosote
It must be a bug. User IDs are shared with the forum, and here: memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1 - it doesn't exist.

Re: Username showing as Anonymous after submission

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 11:53 pm
by Alastair
I don't know if it is related but when an account is activated and neither myself nor Jacob activates the account manually, "Anonymous" is shown as activating the account.

Re: Username showing as Anonymous after submission

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 2:39 pm
by Strident
OVL's latest map contribution (added today) is showing as "anonymous".