Browser did not update itself to show it was my turn... so I lost on time

[tomatohorse]

My most recent game I erroneously lost on time. The browser showed that it was my opponent’s move, and that his time was ticking down.

After several minutes, I got suspicious, and refreshed the page. It showed that my opponent had in fact made a move, and that my time had run out. (I had several minutes on my clock before this).

Imagine my disappointment, since in this game I was doing very well against a player 3 ranks higher than me!

I was on mobile Safari on an iPhone.

[stone.defender]

Opponent's clock counts down and then *I* time out

I was playing game 43031184 and waiting for my opponent’s move. His clock in the GUI was counting down nicely until the last Byomi ended. Only when the usual notice that he lost due to time out did not come, I refreshed the user interface to learn that I timed out. This is really annoying. Shouldn’t the GUI check for a connection to the server and notify me accordingly?

Loss by disconnection, but computer shows me still waiting for white's move

In this game: the computer had me losing by disconnection (I think I was going to lose anyway). But I had no sign that I was disconnected, just the timer of my opponent slowly ticking down, while I waited for his move. It still shows four minutes to go. Is this unusual? I’ve never met it before.

Loss by disconnection, but computer shows me still waiting for white's move

Clock still able to work when page is disconnected. Therefore its possible to create code that able to work offline. OGS needs code that notifies the user that your connection to server lost. This is an old BUG and it should be fixed.

[tomatohorse]

Yes, @stone.defender - those are all other instances of this bug! And, like was mentioned in (at least) one of the threads, we really need to be notified that the page has disconnected to the server.

Like, the local browser’s game could be coded to send a “ping” every 5s or something - nothing too crazy - to check if it’s still connected, or to make sure it’s player time amounts (like, you have 5:30 on your clock) match the server’s player time amounts. Something like that. Then if it doesn’t get a response, it has a warning popup that tells you you’re disconnected and need to refresh the page.

Or, better yet, it syncs itself up in the background without you needing to manually refresh.

[stone.defender]

@tomatohorse

local browser’s game could be coded to send a “ping” every 5s

sending not needed
local page may have it’s own unseen 20 seconds timer, server sends signal to you every 9 seconds. If signal received, timer resets. If signal not received in those 20 seconds, unseen timer reaches 0 and then “try to refresh!” warning activates.