[Disasterpiece]

Originally Posted by MadMakz

the ava is not a steam problem. at least the issue i posted about.
it fails on running the plugin code in "postbit_display_start".
it's always producing an empty/broken result if the cache is outdated and actually an "update cache" should've been triggered.

when the "postbit_display_start" code actually has to update the cache it will always break and create an "empty" cachefile for the user (see this post).

looking up the specific user via admincp or you go to your steam section in your usercp will always fix it and work correctly for the specific user respectively yourself. otherwise the steaminfo cache will remain corrupted/empty.

this leads to that an invalid image url will be build an thus the avatar shows as missing/alt-text.

i'm suspecting a path or hook problem but still i have not much clue about vBs hook/plugin system and since my "community" is practicaly dead i have no real effort to look trough the whole thing.

Interesting find. I haven't yet been able to reproduce this in my test forum, but in my productive forum I noticed the empty files as well (stc_.cached with an empty array inside).
They aren't harmful at all, only useless and a byproduct of calling the fetch_steam_info() with an empty steam_id parameter. This has now been fixed.

Cases where relevant stc_NUMBER.cached files are empty es well, that hasn't occured to me yet. I'm also not sure what may cause this to happen since most special cases like steam sending a 500 or 404 are already handled accordingly.

or in short: I'll figure something out