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A little while ago I had a similarly silly bug in Mibbit.

The advertising is specifically setup to refresh every few minutes with new adverts relevant to the discussion.

Only problem is, I had typo'd:

setTimeout instead of setInterval = only one refresh!

Bugs like that and patio's are a little hard to spot, since everything is still working, money is still being made, just not as well as it should be :)



Yeah. Its like filling a bucket with a hole in it -- the water level is still rising, so you don't notice that you're losing half of what you're putting in.

Except in my case, the bucket was used to stop a shotgun blast and then I started filling it from a fire hydrant.




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