Out of order messages in Correspondence Games

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Enormous_Gastropod

Hello!

This happens a lot to me. I'll type several consequative messages into the message box in a CC game, but the message will be out of the order that I sent them. Sometimes I'll send a message, see it in the message box, and then deliberately wait for a little while before sending the next message, but it will still show up in the message box as being before the first one I sent. It leads to some confusing conversations. :) Thought you'd like to know... (although I'm sure you do already). Laughing

Timotheous

as well

Timotheous

That happens to me a lot.

Timotheous

I know what you mean.

Saccadic

Happens all the time, both here and on Chess.com's facebook app. Has created some awkward conversations..

MapleDanish

Yeah that's an irritating problem.  I didn't realize your opponent saw it backwards too!  Man I must look like a real idiot :P.

 

"you suck"

 

... "and the guy's like..." (okay that's just a sample :P)

artfizz

It can certainly have unintended consequences ...

Enormous_Gastropod

I figured that someone had already voiced this problem. Leave it to Rael to be vastly more eloquent at voicing it than me. I miss his contributions. 

artfizz

"That's well out of order!" is a common saying over here - indicating stern disapproval.

Saccadic

Just happened to me again. I don't know why this hasn't been addressed yet.

saturnberry

I saw it today while playing my first game w/a chess.com greeter! I would type something, then type something else. The second thing would be posted first! oH! lol :)

infinitum

I think it happens if you enter messages in very quick succession. Happened to me a couple of times too but when I leave a small gap before writing the next message it worked out fine.

erik

it's all about ajax connections and database writes... weird stuff.

artfizz
erik wrote:

it's all about ajax connections and database writes... weird stuff.


If chat fragments were annotated by sequence number or timestamp, either chess.com could repair out-of-order conversations (at enormous effort), or the non sequitur would be more obvious.