I remember at one point you made it so the browse players page would be cached...

but now, only occasionally do I get the message telling me that I'm using the cached version of the page

is there a reason for this, or is it a bug? (hence t*tle being a question)

It caches the pages for performance reasons, but the cache expires after 5 minutes.

It's not a bug, but now that you bring my attention to it, I think I'll increase it to 1 hour.

If I may be allowed, this is exaggerated. For the next hour after I log in, checking the players table will result with my name in yellow (active / offline). This being only the most obvious disadvantage. Why didn't you like the 5 minutes cache, come again?

Isn't that only if you log in at the top of the hour?

At the top of the hour? Huh?

Suppose you're in town for 3-4 hours busy with 'stuff' and come back home and get online at 2:01 pm. Then until 3:00 pm you'll be yellow in the players' table. And anybody else in the same situation.

Really, this doesn't seem right (from a player's point of view).

top of the hour= turn of the hour