The end of 'Habblets'' - Habbo profile widgets

[lRhyss]

"I'm sure you've all seen fansites with these scanner widgets that allow you to search through a Habbo user's badges, groups, rooms and even friends list - a tool very useful to fansites, and to even us at Puhekupla. As news broke out yesterday, the fate of scanners is soon to meet it's match due to users requesting too much information on the scanners, 20GB's worth causing large error stack-traces in the system.



The official Habbo dev twitter begun to answer out on this, pointing the finger at someone from Finland requesting all this information of users as the fault for the scanners being disabled. Although, there is a catch to all of this, if the user you are searching for has the widget (for friends, groups, rooms or badges) on their homepage when you go to search them - they will be searchable.



What are your thoughts on this? Do you too point the finger at the person who requested so much data, or is there someone else to blame for all of this." - http://puhekupla.com/en/news/

Probably ThisHabbo ;/ Not just saying it, it's just they're the newest ones to introduce the features in the new site...

Thoughts?

[sex]

bet this was oakanoes isnt he a finn

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bet this was oakanoes isnt he a finn

Well he's from 20 different places, or something like that.

I don't get why it's so high, but it would be better to leave Habbo to it to destroy the hotel even more... I mean, make it better?

[Michael]

Certain fansites coded programs to search through thousands and thousands of users badge widgets to see if they have the staff badge so they can be the first to report up on it, this is the cause for the widget being disabled.

[lRhyss]

Certain fansites coded programs to search through thousands and thousands of users badge widgets to see if they have the staff badge so they can be the first to report up on it, this is the cause for the widget being disabled.

That wouldn't be the cause, would it?

[Michael]

That wouldn't be the cause, would it?

Someone creates a program that searches through thousands of users > it sends that information of the search query to the servers > the servers have to reply with an answer to the search query. Now imagine that on a wide scale 20 GB of web logs.. that a lot for something so little, it would have had to be in its hundreds of thousands.

[lRhyss]

Someone creates a program that searches through thousands of users > it sends that information of the search query to the servers > the servers have to reply with an answer to the search query. Now imagine that on a wide scale 20 GB of web logs.. that a lot for something so little, it would have had to be in its hundreds of thousands.

Yeah but It's not just that, there's the scripts that search for the new badges that are added, code, motto's online status etc...

The staff one alone won't be the reason

[passion]

Yeah but It's not just that, there's the scripts that search for the new badges that are added, code, motto's online status etc...

The staff one alone won't be the reason

I think it will be. Current staff have recently discussed their disdain at the lengths some users extend to just to find new staff. They want to stop this behaviour, this is one way.

[Daltron]

Can't believe they used up so much!