What the hell am I talking about? You might say. Well yea it sounded crazy but how long is a second exactly?!
As I was writing some unit tests for my shiny Redis Set implementation, somethign weird caught my attention.
TestSendPotentialUsers | Successful | Written 80687641:-18230398344540846 to potential_user set
So I was working on SeaHungerGamesBot, and one major pain point was: when a certain user started the conversation, but did not proceed from there. (probably due to the hassle of copy-pasting the API key?)
Since my current goal is to have as many active users as possible, that was a wasted opportunity.
So my objective was to keep track of the users that started pressing some commands, but backed off and disappear afterwards.
I call them the potential users.