Not sure if "PASS" still is a non-confirmation, but if so it should be a toggle option under the "gear" options along with "Move Confirmation" (which is already there).

I am using V2 of Lex on a desktop computer. The Lex word definitions of the words used in each game appear below the game display itself. Often the definition will begin with the words "Eye Dialect". After looking at that a couple of years, i decided to look it up:

This note is just a thank you for making the BACKSPACE key act in a Lexulous manner when placing tiles instead of an OS manner.

@lexulous, AND, when the play button turns green, it also has a colored edge on the right, which, when clicked, shows the word-to-be-played "strength" as a percentage. IOW, 100% is the best possible play determined and less than a 100%, not so much.

@dan-mitchell, I think that the CSW19(Collin's Scrabble Words) is filled with contrived words and words that were originally not in SOWPODS because it claimed to forbid words by shortening, acronyms and slang and did a reasonable, if not complete, job of that. By contrived words, i mean words that are "made up" with the sole purpose of advancing play in word games. Where ZEN used to be used as an example of what were not playable words in SOWPODS, it is now a part of CSW19. ZE was recently added to CSW19 and I feel it is a just a matter of time before we see a two letter "V" word. Too many words of CSW19, show in the Collin's dictionary as "no definition
found".
I am still back with the TWL98+(and previous and successive issues of TWL --"The Word List") for US Scrabble and SOWPODS for British tournament play.

the "v2" is being whipped into shape but there are still things that do not work as expected or advertised. Two are --

1. clicking on "see more completed games" goes to stats.
2. the BACKSPACE key has no program override and respects the browser default of moving within the tab to the previous tab of that position.

@taposi, a new one (to me) i came across the other day was in musical structure and was DECRESCENDO.

cut from chat, i passed, but with the new "both passed" end-of-game on the count of 1, the game ended.... cut --
" "

@thatguythere202 A bit lower in pitch than intended?

@haftoplay, i have no idea, i am sure it is highly meaningful though.
Try https://forum.lexulous.com/users?section=sort-reputation
(which you probably have) for a global view......

I am using V2 of Lex on a desktop computer. The Lex word definitions of the words used in each game appear below the game display itself. Often the definition will begin with the words "Eye Dialect". After looking at that a couple of years, i decided to look it up:

@thatguythere202 said in Why does session timeout so quickly?:

"it does seem that logging in again is taking longer"
It is. That is the main reason why having to relog in has become annoying to me. it used to be just a click and it was done. Now it is 10 or more seconds......

@dan, I definitely agree with the "very annoying" part of your post. I don't think that my bank account is any more strenuous about login than lex. And, i don't think that this little game is anywhere close to justifying itself as worthy of fort knox entry treatment.

@anexparrot said in DIJON Not permitted in SOWPODS:

I bet the French would be mad that champagne is valid and I bet the Italians would be mad that Asti is not since it means it is less popular. Am I muddying this up with wines? Haha
No, you are showing the inconsistency of a supposedly consistent word list.

I have a copy of the SOWPODS, but it is from 1998 or so and not a true reflection of the hodgepodge currently in effect.

Anybody, can it really be said that SOWPODS is still the British Scrabble Dictionary (and hence Lexulous) when the criteria is the word's existence in Collins Dictionary -- or is SOWPODS now a clone of Collins' CSW (Collins Scrabble Words)?
("The 'word' SOWPODS is an acronym of OSPD and OWS (Although the two source dictionaries have now changed their respective titles the term SOWPODS is still used by tournament players to refer to the combination of the two sources. There has not been any actual hard-copy list produced called SOWPODS, although the current Collins Scrabble Words, or CSW, is in effect the full SOWPODS list by a different name." https://findwords.info/term/sowpods )
*I found SOWPODS somewhat capricious and i find the CSW very capricious.

@jennf, you say you are not getting email notification of your opponents actions? Are you playing an "email version" game when this happens?

@pangloss, I have always thought it to mean that a person intended to stay with the game onscreen until it was finished as opposed to medium where the opponent would not be tied to the screen but check it a few times daily, or slow, where the opponent might check the game weekly or somesuch.....
IF i played a game as FAST, i would think i should agree before hand with opponent on time between moves -- that is timed, but informally.

@dan, no, they don't show that on my desktop computer.

@dan, I agree with the "uncommon" bit since i have 13 draws in over 4300 games. But what type of game tells you beforehand? I have never seen that. I play EMAIL type games exclusively (but online).