---
title: "The greatest bug I never fixed"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-greatest-bug-i-never-fixed-xokisgxqt
source_url: https://blog.makandra.com/2010/04/the-greatest-bug-i-never-fixed/
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-04-10T14:39:23.533Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:29:02.242Z
tags: ["game-development", "lua"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 4
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# 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: <https://blog.makandra.com/2010/04/the-greatest-bug-i-never-fixed/>

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