I often play on a train, and it frequently happens that I am disconnected due to poor mobile or Wi-Fi reception. This is usually fixed within a minute. Due to the seemingly new option to claim a victory when the opponent gets disconnected, I lose games, which is very annoying. I understand that people intentionally leaving games are annoying, but this here is equally annoying.
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Greetings and welcome to the forum!
Yes, definitely annoying to lose a game due to faulty Internet connection. Having said this, it’s called OGS because it’s online. So if you’re not reliably online you’re going to have adverse consequences.
I thought you had to be disconnected for more than merely 1 minute to time out. But I could be mistaken.
Perhaps make sure to play games with longer time controls? Or do tsumego on the train and play games again once in range of a stable connection?
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Do you tell them at the start of the game you are on a train so may briefly disconnect but will be back. Then if they are good sports ™ they won’t claim the win, but with no prior warning they are more likely to do so.
That said, I do also find it annoying that if I have 20 minutes on my clock I can sit with my game open for 20 minutes and not play (either because I’m thinking, or I went to answer the door, change a nappy etc) and not lose and my opponent has to wait for me to play because that’s the time settings, but close the tab / drop connection etc for just a minute and it’s game over (and mobile browsers effectively close the tab to save battery even if you think you left them open).
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This is not due to short time settings but due to the disconnect feature. And I am on OGS for a long time. This used to be different (like 5 min).
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Since you know the train route will drop your connection, you might try restricting yourself to correspondence format while commuting - and if you play a bot in correspondence mode, you’ll still get a quick response anyhow. Food for thought.
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Maybe you can save some prewritten “hello” message like “Hi, nice to meet you. My connection is bit unstable, so i might disconnect briefly, but i’ll reconnect as soon as I can”?
You can edit those prewritten “hello” templates by clicking “edit”
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Thanks for all the feedback on this topic