Swapping sentences, sentences swapped

Thank the powers that be! At first, I thought I was imagining it. Then I thought it maybe a side effect of being a non-member and my chats loosing the bandwidth struggle with the ads (ads being the defacto hi-priority due to revenue).

I wonder though - is it only a local-echo issue within our java-apps? That is, do we only see it happen at our end and it may not appear that way at the other? This sometimes happened in the old IRQ text-chatters pre-Windows/pre-browsers day with sub-56k dial-up (I know there are enough of you out there old enough to know what I'm talking about).

You forgot: pre-internet!

Yes, I had the same issue several times (and I'm a fast typer); I can understand the reason, which lies in the very nature of HTTP. When you press "Enter" the message is sent to the server, but there is no guarantee it will be there in the desired sequence, so sending messages quickly may cause this.

Now, I know Erik knows the solution (sequencing messages so each one has a "predecessor", which would stack messages when the predecessor is not received yet) but maybe there are other issues at hand :)

having the messages sequenced from both players would be nice.  I

recently played someone from Greece and I think our messages were

routing through different server networks.  The text was randomly

delayed to the point we had to wait minutes between comments to 

keep the conversation coherent.  I know it wasn't my typing because

I was using both my thumbs (Fred Flintstone method).

It's happened to me lots of times, but I assumed it was because I type with my paws. 

I use the "Christopher Columbus Method" to type: Explore, Discover, Land.

I have always wondered something and I know there are a number

of IT experts following this thread.

Sometimes when I copy myself an email sent to someone else I

quickly hit the inbox button on my browser and the email is already

there.  If you send or copy yourself an email, doest it ever actually

leave your computer?

Please help me, this one is causing some anxiety.

Technically, no (not your copy). But the computer you're referring to is actually the server since chess.com's email is a web-based mail server. It's not on your computer except as a cached copy in your temporary internet files.

Hope this helps.

3. I hope those copies are accurate - but if not, maybe it sometimes works in my favour.

2.When I make a move, only a copy of that move gets sent - and applied on a copy of the board I am seeing - for a copy of my opponent.

1.This is worrying. 

so tell us, if you are busy on your computer and something urgent comes up, can you just press the paws button and then resume later when you're finished ?

Har! Funniest reply on the thread yet.

It happeneds to me too.

things to rule out:

(1) are you guys by any chance using wireless keyboard? their buffer is slow...

(2) are too many apps running in the background, or your computers have insufficient memory? (fire up task manager-> processes to see CPU utilisation of different threads)

(3) are you allowing page refresh to finish before doing anything? weird things happen if you start typing before page refresh is completed

 ...but I would hate to have to remember to hit refresh (F5) after every message.