Stop typing WHO at a game that already published its count, and read the rosters they publish

[HarryCordewener]

An operator — Moral Decay, playdecay.com:3003 — reported that our WHO arrives at their login screen while they already publish player counts over MSSP and on that screen. Probing them with the code on main shows the complaint was understated. Reproducibly, on every crawl:

who    Unknown — asked, unreadable
info   | By what name do you wish to be known?  Password:  Wrong password.
       | Saving pydeer...done.

WHO was typed at their name prompt and taken as a character name. Their server asked for a password, and INFO went in as the password. We were generating a failed authentication attempt in their logs every two hours — and that WHO never produced a count. The number we published came from their MSSP report the whole time.

After this PR, against the same server: nothing goes on the wire at all, and the probe finishes in 0.8s instead of 7.5s.

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1. A probe that has been told the answer does not ask the question

Three commands were unconditional. All three are now gated on what the game has already published.

WHO is skipped when a count is already in hand — a stated MSSP PLAYERS, a roster the report published, or a count the connect screen states about itself (the screen rung additionally requires a protocol signal in the session; see §3).

INFO and VERSION are skipped when MsspSelfDescription.AnswersTheLoginCommands holds: a meaningful NAME, a CODEBASE that names an engine LoginCommandReading recognises, and a count. One condition per consumer — MeaningfulName, MeaningfulCodebase, ConnectedPlayers — so nothing downstream loses an input it had. MuLikeness's vocabulary signal needs nothing: it is the weakest tier, and a report already outranks it.

Not asking must imply publishing

A probe that declined to ask and then had nothing to show would reach PresenceChoice.ReasonFor and write who_not_offered — "the game answers no pre-login WHO" — about a game we never asked. That is rule 5, and the reason vocabulary has no member for our own restraint on purpose (see UnmeasurableReason.I3NoReply, which says so). Two things hold it:

• MsspPresence is the single reader both the probe and PresenceChoice consult, so a count accepted by one cannot be refused by the other.
• The banner count that bought the silence is carried into BannerPlayerCount as the fallback for the end-of-session decode.

Waiting for a report we have already been promised

WILL MSSP lands during the option handshake while the report itself is a second round trip, so a server can have agreed to MSSP and still have its answer in flight when the decision runs. The residue flush already waits for exactly this — but only when it also has to decide whether to send a blank line, which for a server that negotiated is precisely the case it skips. Nothing was holding the WHO fork, so the decision was a coin toss on timing, and it lost: CI on windows-latest sent WHO to a fixture whose report arrived a moment later, against a server on the same machine. Across a real network the gap is wider.

The fork now waits too, bounded by MsspSettleGrace, paid only by a game that said it would answer. The roster fixture delays its report by 250 ms on purpose so the wait is part of what the test proves.

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2. Reading the rosters games publish

Surveyed the 934 catalogued games holding an MSSP report. Three codebase families publish who is online under names MSSP does not define, and the crawler was storing all three verbatim while reading none:

variable	games	shape	family
PLAYERNAMES	1	one value, comma-separated	Circle/Nukefire
WHO	9	repeated, one occurrence per player	Dead Souls / LPMud
PLAYER INFO	2	one value, name:role entries	Rise of Praxis, LPMud

MsspPresence reads all three plus the stated PLAYERS, and reports which kind of answer it got. MsspCountKind is the confidence ladder for the MSSP channel — the counterpart to WhoConfidence for the telnet one. No separate confidence type: that would be a second name for one fact.

• Stated — the game's own answer to the exact question. Exact.
• Roster — a list the game published, counted by us. A floor, not a total. Measured: tdome.nukefire.org:4000 states PLAYERS = 70 and names sixty-nine, identically across three probes minutes apart. Every codebase has someone it does not show.
• None — answered neither way.

Three things the live reports settled, each with a test naming the server:

• -1 is a sentinel, not a count. dragonfiremud.com:1999 sends OBJECTS = -1, SKILLS = -1, RACES = -1, INTERMUD = -1 beside a real PLAYERS. That codebase's spelling of "I do not know"; publishing it would invent a number (rule 4).
• WHO = empty is a measured zero, not one player. vithasnir and xanth-mud both send it beside PLAYERS = 0. Counting the empty occurrence as a name would report one player on every quiet Dead Souls game in the catalogue.
• Rosters are read by variable name, never by value shape. Nukefire's CLASSES - BASE 1 = Barbarian, Assassin, Slinger, Curist, Samurai, Infiltrator is indistinguishable from a roster and is six classes.

Where a roster count goes (migration 0038)

Its own mssp_roster presence source, not more mssp. Both arrive in the same report, but PLAYERS is the game answering the question while a roster is us counting a list published for another purpose — folding them together would relabel a floor as a total with no way for a reader to tell which they had.

Ranked below info, above banner, on the rule migration 0019 set: a new rung may only fill rows that would otherwise be NULL and may never relabel a published count. In today's catalogue that makes it empty — every roster-publishing game also states PLAYERS or is counted over I3 — and that is the point. It exists so the probe has somewhere honest to put an answer it stopped asking for.

Declared, not measured, which is where it parts company with i3: an I3 who-reply is a list a mud built because we asked, over a socket, now. An MSSP roster arrived unsolicited inside the game's own self-description.

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3. The two clauses that keep this from costing anything

Both were derived from the catalogue, not from caution.

The screen rung needs a protocol signal. For a server that negotiates nothing and publishes no MSSP, a parseable WHO is its only §7.8 MuLikeness evidence of being a game — which is what lists a submitted game without waiting on a claim. Talking ourselves out of asking on the strength of a number pattern-matched out of ASCII art would cost such a game its listing.

The INFO/VERSION gate needs the report to name an engine. Gating on a non-template CODEBASE alone silences 170 games and costs 33 of them the banner-sourced CODEBASE row INFO had been filling. Thirty-one merely restated the report. Two did not, and they are one shape — a custom build string naming no engine:

• northern-crossroads-ncmud declares NC-7.0.357.7940b961; only its INFO says DikuMUD
• primal-darkness-ii declares PD/NM III; only its INFO says FluffOS

Requiring the report to name an engine keeps exactly those being asked. FAMILY is refused in CODEBASE's place because both of them declare one — accepting it would silence the two games the clause exists to protect.

With the clause in, 72 of the 170 keep their INFO/VERSION, and not one row given up loses an engine: six restate the report in coarser words, five are Evennia games, and one — neonmoo — keeps its engine and gives up patch detail.

Corrected after #164. When this was measured, those five Evennia rows held mangled text (enniaA 5.0.1, enniaF 6.0.0 (rev ea0da3ed8)R ##D HRINFO0m) and giving them up was a clear improvement, since the report states Evennia cleanly. #164 fixed the corruption that produced them, so their INFO now reads Evennia 6.1.0 — strictly more than the report's bare Evennia. The trade for those five is therefore engine kept, version number given up, not "mangled text discarded". Still the right side of the ledger against typing three commands at a login screen that already answered, but it is a real cost and the earlier wording no longer describes it.

The engine check reads every value of CODEBASE, not the last: Moral Decay sends it twice, FluffOS v2025 then Moral Decay v9.0, and taking only the latest word — right everywhere else — would find no engine and go on typing at the login screen of the game that asked us to stop. One reader now answers "which repeat wins" for all three callers (MsspReport.Last).

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4. Login-screen player lists, and a parser bug found looking for them

Asked whether games publish a connected-player list on the connect screen. Ran every stored screen (918) through WhoParser and BannerCount.

No game does — zero parse as PerPlayer. The games that list names always state the count in the same breath and we already read it (dunemud.net:6789 prints There are currently 16 users logged on: above its sixteen names). Across the 32 screens carrying a count, the two readers agree on the number 31 times. And the lists that are there are the reason not to try: dune shows Emperors:, Dukes:, Barons: rolls; opalmoo shows Wizards: Briar, Opal, Min, Fox, and Lyn.

The 32nd disagreed, and that was a bug. down.moo.midgard.org:8888 prints:

1 players are connected.
1 players have connected over the past twenty-four hours.
0 players have connected over the past twelve hours.

The reader took the last line as a measured zero for a game with somebody in it. Every count pattern matches it — the perfect tense sits in the gap they already allow between the number and the connectivity word, so no pattern can see it. It reached production harmlessly only by luck: BannerCount refuses a screen stating two different counts, so the wrong reading and the right one cancelled out. A screen carrying only the historical line would have published it.

TrySummary now declines a count in the perfect tense before any pattern runs. Of the ten lines in the catalogue in that tense, only downmoo's two carry a number — the rest are You have connected to… and after you have logged in. English has no present reading of "N players have connected."

The window phrase is deliberately not the test: 42 screens carry one, and port-of-dreams prints There are 2 players currently online, and today's total is 6.

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Verification

Unit and integration. Crawl 544, Catalog 641, Crawler 338, Discovery 335, Web 1,153 — all green. PresenceStorePostgresTests.EverySourceTheLadderCanChooseIsOneTheTableAccepts gains mssp_roster, so migration 0038 is proven against a real Postgres rather than assumed. The Crawl suite was run five times over after the timing fix; 544 each time.

Live, with mui-probe. playdecay.com:3003 sends nothing. tdome.nukefire.org:4000, dead-souls.net:8000, telnet.riseofpraxis.net:6666, dragonfiremud.com:1999, voidmud.com:2201 report who NotAsked. mud.primaldarkness.com:5000 and game.convergencemush.org:10000 (RhostMUSH, no MSSP — the game the INFO reader exists for) are asked exactly as before. lambda.moo.mud.org:8888 — no MSSP, negotiates nothing — is still asked and still counted, at 49.

Full crawl against a production copy. Restored a 103 MB pg_dump of prod (935 games, 1,567 targets, 118,380 presence rows) into a local Postgres, snapshotted a baseline, made every target due, and swept all 1,567. Then a second targeted sweep of 336 targets / 282 games for the INFO/VERSION gate. Migration 0038 applied cleanly to real data on both restores.

• The rule-5 invariant held. No game got a WHO reason recorded while we declined to ask. The one game that looked like it (abandoned-realms-2) landed mssp · 2 on re-probe — a transient socket loss.
• Every apparent count loss was the games changing, not us. Six games had an MSSP count in the baseline and none in the sweep; probing all six with both builds side by side gives identical output — those servers stopped offering MSSP, and coffeemud.net is refusing connections. A further 28 were i3 → none, an artefact of running no --i3 pass.
• 34 games moved who → mssp, and the counts agree: 22 identical, 30 within 3, largest gap 6 on a 597-player game. That is the direct answer to the main objection against ranking mssp over who.
• INFO/VERSION gate: 0 rows lost. Four banner-sourced CODEBASE values became coarser (PennMUSH 1.8.8p0 → PennMUSH) and 41 stopped being re-confirmed — all outranked by mssp in Fields.Winner, so no displayed value changes on any of them. 191 mssp rows keep refreshing normally.

Known consequences

• Presence provenance shifts. Games publishing MSSP PLAYERS record presence under mssp (declared) rather than who (observed) — measured at 34 games, with the counts agreeing.
• Four one-time change-feed entries. field_change records per source rather than per winner, so those four coarsened CODEBASE values each produce one feed entry. Accurate — we did change what we read off the screen — but visible.
• One game trades a working WHO for its screen count. flexiblesurvival.com:2222 negotiates MSSP but sends no report, states 51 players on right now., and had a WHO answering at PerPlayer confidence. Under the screen rung it is no longer asked. Both sources are classed measured and no aggregates are lost (zero games in the catalogue carry presence aggregates today), but it is the one place this rule costs something. Restricting suppression to MSSP alone would undo it.

Flagged, not fixed

• Five Evennia games store a corrupted CODEBASE parsed from their INFO block — the Ev is eaten (enniaA 5.0.1, enniaF 6.0.0 (rev ea0da3ed8)R ##D HRINFO0m). This PR happens to stop it for those five; the parser bug remains for any Evennia game without a self-describing report.
• Dead Souls is not in LoginCommandReading's family vocabulary, so its nine games keep their INFO and VERSION. That is the gate behaving correctly, but widening that list changes how every codebase is read, so it belongs in its own change if it belongs at all.

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Walkthrough

The probe now uses MSSP and connect-screen counts to suppress redundant WHO queries. MSSP roster parsing provides fallback presence counts with distinct provenance. Historical banner figures are excluded from live population counts.

Changes

Published player count handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared MSSP presence contract src/MUI.Crawl/Mssp/MsspPresence.cs, src/MUI.Crawler/Crawl/PresenceChoice.cs, CLAUDE.md	MSSP stated counts and recognized rosters use shared parsing and precedence rules. Empty rosters produce zero counts.
MSSP negotiation settling src/MUI.Crawl/Telnet/TelnetProbe.cs, tests/MUI.Crawl.Tests/Telnet/ProbeSessionTests.cs	The probe waits for delayed MSSP evidence before deciding whether to flush input.
Published count and WHO flow src/MUI.Crawl/Telnet/TelnetProbe.cs, tests/MUI.Crawl.Tests/Telnet/ProbeSessionTests.cs	The probe suppresses WHO when supported MSSP or connect-screen evidence provides a count and preserves that count in the result.
Historical banner figure filtering src/MUI.Crawl/Who/WhoParser.cs, tests/MUI.Crawl.Tests/Who/*, tests/MUI.Crawl.Tests/Banner/BannerCountTests.cs	Historical connection figures are rejected while current population counts remain supported.
Roster provenance integration src/MUI.Catalog/..., migrations/0038_mssp_roster_presence_source.sql, src/MUI.Web/..., tests/MUI.Catalog.Tests/..., tests/MUI.Crawl.Tests/Mssp/*, tests/MUI.Crawler.Tests/Crawl/*	FieldSource.MsspRoster is persisted, localized, selected after INFO, and covered by parser and precedence tests.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 867cd

The PR suppresses unnecessary WHO queries and adds MSSP roster/count handling, but a mixed current-and-historical count line can still be discarded, causing an unnecessary query, and the new database validation may block presence writes during deployment. Merge should wait for these bounded correctness and deployment risks to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TelnetProbe
  participant TelnetServer
  participant MsspPresence
  participant ConnectScreen
  participant WHO
  TelnetProbe->>TelnetServer: negotiate MSSP
  TelnetServer-->>TelnetProbe: publish player count or roster
  TelnetProbe->>MsspPresence: parse MSSP report
  MsspPresence-->>TelnetProbe: return count when available
  TelnetProbe->>ConnectScreen: parse banner when protocol evidence exists
  ConnectScreen-->>TelnetProbe: return banner count
  TelnetProbe->>WHO: query only when no supported count exists
  TelnetProbe-->>TelnetProbe: construct presence result

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In `@src/MUI.Crawl/Telnet/TelnetProbe.cs`:
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In `@migrations/0038_mssp_roster_presence_source.sql`:
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change on presence_sample to add the CHECK constraint as NOT VALID, and defer
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In PostgreSQL, the interaction between ALTER TABLE, constraint validation, and lock levels on partitioned tables is governed by the need to maintain both data integrity and concurrency [1][2]. When you add a CHECK constraint using NOT VALID to a partitioned table (or any table), the initial ALTER TABLE command does not perform a full table scan and can be committed immediately [1][2]. However, adding a constraint still requires an ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock on the table because it must update multiple system catalogs (such as pg_class and pg_constraint) to ensure that the new constraint definition is consistent for all concurrent sessions [3]. Reducing this lock level to something less restrictive would risk exposing onlookers to inconsistent catalog data [3]. Once the constraint exists as NOT VALID, it does not prevent new rows from violating the rule, but it does allow you to perform the validation scan later using the VALIDATE CONSTRAINT command [1][2]. The VALIDATE CONSTRAINT command is designed to minimize concurrency impact [1][2]. It only needs to verify pre-existing rows, because any new rows inserted or updated after the initial ALTER TABLE command are already required to satisfy the constraint [1][2]. Consequently, the validation step acquires only a SHARE UPDATE EXCLUSIVE lock on the table being altered [1][2]. This lock level allows other concurrent operations such as SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE, while preventing concurrent schema changes or other validation operations on the same table [1][2][4]. In summary: 1. ALTER TABLE... ADD CHECK... NOT VALID: Requires an ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock [3]. 2. ALTER TABLE... VALIDATE CONSTRAINT: Requires a SHARE UPDATE EXCLUSIVE lock [1][2]. This approach allows you to avoid long-held ACCESS EXCLUSIVE locks during the potentially time-consuming process of scanning a large partitioned table to verify existing data [1][2][4].

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Defer validation of presence_sample_source_vocabulary.

ADD CONSTRAINT ... CHECK scans existing rows under ACCESS EXCLUSIVE. On the write-active, partitioned presence_sample table, this scan can block inserts. Add the constraint as NOT VALID, then run VALIDATE CONSTRAINT in a later migration so the scan uses a less restrictive lock.

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In `@migrations/0038_mssp_roster_presence_source.sql` around lines 36 - 39, Update
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Reject roster -1 sentinels.

Names treats "-1" as a player name. MsspPresence.Roster then returns one player, so TelnetProbe.PublishedCount can skip WHO and PresenceChoice can publish a fictitious mssp_roster count. Treat this sentinel as unavailable rather than as an empty roster, and continue to later roster variables when applicable.

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In `@src/MUI.Crawl/Mssp/MsspPresence.cs` around lines 198 - 206, Update the Names
parsing logic in MsspPresence so a roster value of "-1" is treated as
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Update the About explanation for MSSP roster counts.

The new source can represent a count derived from an MSSP roster, but about.measures.count.body still says the MSSP path is only PLAYERS. This makes the public explanation incomplete.

• src/MUI.Web/Resources/Messages.resx#L1952-L1954: Update about.measures.count.body to describe roster-derived MSSP counts and distinguish them from PLAYERS totals.
• src/MUI.Web/Resources/Messages.zh-Hans.resx#L1434-L1436: Apply the same correction to the localized about.measures.count.body.

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In `@src/MUI.Web/Resources/Messages.resx` around lines 1952 - 1954, Update
about.measures.count.body in src/MUI.Web/Resources/Messages.resx lines 1952-1954
to explain MSSP roster-derived counts and distinguish them from PLAYERS totals.
Apply the same correction to about.measures.count.body in
src/MUI.Web/Resources/Messages.zh-Hans.resx lines 1434-1436, preserving the
localized translation.

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In `@src/MUI.Crawl/Who/WhoParser.cs`:
- Around line 140-142: The WhoParser flow should still extract the current
player count when a line also mentions a past figure; avoid rejecting the entire
line via StatesAPastFigure before TrySummary can parse the current clause. Scope
the past-tense filtering to its matching figure or parse the current clause
independently, and add a regression test covering a line such as “There are 2
players currently online, and 6 players have connected today.”

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep a current count when the line also contains a past figure.

Line 140 rejects the whole line before TrySummary reads a current count. For example, "There are 2 players currently online, and 6 players have connected today." returns false instead of 2. This can lose the published count and cause an unnecessary WHO.

Associate the past-tense filter with its matching figure, or parse the current clause independently. Add this sentence as a regression test.

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In `@src/MUI.Crawl/Who/WhoParser.cs` around lines 140 - 142, The WhoParser flow
should still extract the current player count when a line also mentions a past
figure; avoid rejecting the entire line via StatesAPastFigure before TrySummary
can parse the current clause. Scope the past-tense filtering to its matching
figure or parse the current clause independently, and add a regression test
covering a line such as “There are 2 players currently online, and 6 players
have connected today.”