Empty rooms using resources - should rooms expire? #50

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opened 2026-02-20 10:13:38 -05:00 by deekerman · 2 comments

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Originally created by @andypymont on GitHub (Jan 12, 2021).

Concerns that e.g. hitting the homepage may lead to creation of empty rooms. Plus people may 'abandon' a room at a later date, leading to old rooms sitting around on the server unused.

Originally created by @andypymont on GitHub (Jan 12, 2021). Concerns that e.g. hitting the homepage may lead to creation of empty rooms. Plus people may 'abandon' a room at a later date, leading to old rooms sitting around on the server unused.

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@andypymont commented on GitHub (Jan 12, 2021):

Ideas:

Rooms have a default expiry time, e.g. 30 days (with an opt-out available to make a room permanent?)
Should there be a homepage on the root URL - could have any key links as well as 'create room'/'join room' sections. One more click for people to get to an empty room but would stop incidental traffic creating new rooms.
Also, what about images - if a user uploads an image for a token or card, it gets saved as /assets/abc123. but do these get deleted if there is no widget referencing them any more, or do they still exist?

@andypymont commented on GitHub (Jan 12, 2021): Ideas: - Rooms have a default expiry time, e.g. 30 days (with an opt-out available to make a room permanent?) - Should there be a homepage on the root URL - could have any key links as well as 'create room'/'join room' sections. One more click for people to get to an empty room but would stop incidental traffic creating new rooms. - Also, what about images - if a user uploads an image for a token or card, it gets saved as /assets/abc123. but do these get deleted if there is no widget referencing them any more, or do they still exist?

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@robartsd commented on GitHub (Feb 10, 2022):

Empty rooms are now deleted automatically if all players leave. The process has not been fully automated, but periodically unused resources (rooms that have not been accessed for a long time and assets that are not referred to by any room) have been deleted to free up storage. Should we close this issue or wait until fully automating the removal process?

@robartsd commented on GitHub (Feb 10, 2022): Empty rooms are now deleted automatically if all players leave. The process has not been fully automated, but periodically unused resources (rooms that have not been accessed for a long time and assets that are not referred to by any room) have been deleted to free up storage. Should we close this issue or wait until fully automating the removal process?