--- title: The greatest bug I never fixed | daily.dev description: The story of the greatest bug the author never fixed in their World of Warcraft addon, FriendNet, which serialized its communication into chat messages and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-greatest-bug-i-never-fixed-xokisgxqt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The greatest bug I never fixed | daily.dev og:description: The story of the greatest bug the author never fixed in their World of Warcraft addon, FriendNet, which serialized its communication into chat messages and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-greatest-bug-i-never-fixed-xokisgxqt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/xOkIsGxqt.png og:image:alt: The greatest bug I never fixed og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The greatest bug I never fixed **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The story of the greatest bug the author never fixed in their World of Warcraft addon, FriendNet, which serialized its communication into chat messages and encountered a corrupt message bug when the broadcasting player was drunk. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#game-development](https://daily.dev/tags/game-development), [#lua](https://daily.dev/tags/lua) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-greatest-bug-i-never-fixed-xokisgxqt) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The greatest bug I never fixed","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-greatest-bug-i-never-fixed-xokisgxqt","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-greatest-bug-i-never-fixed-xokisgxqt"},"datePublished":"2024-04-10T14:39:23.533Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:29:02.242Z","description":"The story of the greatest bug the author never fixed in their World of Warcraft addon, FriendNet, which serialized its communication into chat messages and...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/ae8f70e5ff9c467621b597d7db25ccda?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/ae8f70e5ff9c467621b597d7db25ccda?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-greatest-bug-i-never-fixed-xokisgxqt","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":4},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"game-development,lua","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The greatest bug I never fixed"}]} ```