Yes, the xbox.com provided gamercards are publicly viewable and will stay that way, they are meant to be. The gamercard is where gXboxLive obtains the data so there are usually only two reasons why the leaderboards fail, the gamertags html changed so that pattern matching fails or the site is unreachable/down. Most the time it is the latter and you just have to wait out the site downtime.

I still hope to optimize this better so that the leaderboards aren't affected as much by xbox.com downtime.

Hey, great hack, been using it for a while. Recently though I've been bombarded with several emails a day, content of which is similar to below:

I have reinstalled the product which has not helped. Does anyone know why this may be happening?

See this regarding "MySQL server has gone away". It appears that you are losing your MySQL connection during the update process. How many gamertags are in your leaderboard?

16...which I believe is correct, it's only a small forum.

Would a timeout value be causing this then? Do these queries take longer than usual vb functions to execute?

It does take longer as it has to fetch xbox.com once for each gamertag and then make mysql query for each tag it finds. So the cron takes some time to run, the update process could really use some more optimization if I could just find the time to rewrite it.

As far as the error goes, I am afraid it is beyond what knowledge I have of the process.

I've recently downgraded to shared hosting so I don't have control over the MySQL settings etc. I'll see if they will increase the timeout value and see if that helps.

Thanks for your assistance.

No problem. I have started working on updating the cron which will break up the process a bit.

Hello,

I would like to say this is the best product i've ever seen.
also i need help with a little problem
the pictures that i uploaded are not showing up
i've checked the paths they are right.

am not really sure what's the problem
please help

Thank you. Regarding the images, make sure if you are using a custom style, that the images are in the misc folder for that particular style.

worked like a charm! thanks a bunch!

now for something else if i need to translate just the "Send a Message To ????"
and the columns titles just the stuff that appears to people, any idea how to do that?