there were periods in the past when it was less reliable; in particular, one of the rooms it tried to watch was removed from underneath, which caused it to crash for several nights in a row until I had the time to sit down and figure out what was wrong
@tripleee something still odd... why did you choose this "friendly cafe" as "bot test room"? Who asked for it? The contact in the config file was never part of the room. meta.stackexchange.com/users/391772/user1271772
they did a wholesale add of a dozen rooms or more, I prodded them for a bit and they answered all my questions to my satisfaction but I suppose I could have been more thorough
the reason I had been putting it off was that it's a bit tricky to figure out whether a room was recently added from just watching the config file. The bot could keep a copy and compare to an earlier version, or scan the transcript for previous messages from itself
I guess the latter would be fun to do actually
@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 thanks (-: much appreciated
there was a spam/abusive flag for a COVID-related message in the Tex&LaTeX chat room, this user seems to be posting mainly off-topic messages there but I'm not familiar enough with the room culture to decide whether this is okay there or not
@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 there was a weird miss where that particular spam was not reported anywhere at all as far as I can tell, but it seems to be an isolated glitch
@ShadowWizard yeah, but note that Academia was shifting the badge sprites by "half a pixel" to significantly improve the rendering, so it cares about pixels ;)
@Rob all the "ooh"? Still, not worse (or better) than the bad COVID joke.
BTW, @Mithical forgot to ask something, but I'll ask now... did you recently (few months) notice a change in במבה? The ordinary product, I think they made it smaller, though still the same taste.