@betterlate1-0 Because this is the forum, not the lobby. So she'd see it here and ask us for help.

Someone recently commented that something I have open on my computer (an app, window, web site, something) was causing their lexulous.com interface to glitch, to jump around wildly. It threw them off of their game, and they asked me to close whatever was causing the problem.

My understanding of computers and the internet (limited, I admit) indicates that unless I'm hacking or attempting something like that, nothing on my computer can reach back over the internet, into lexulous.com, and cause problems in the interface on someone else's end.

Is that accurate? Or is there something I can do to make play smoother for this person?

@mapmakere good. No word from the admins yet, so I'll take it as a highly unlikely occurrence and just keep on doing what I do in the background.

@betterlate1-0 It never mattered much. People with the no quitter badge still quit.

If you’re talking about the Beta, most of the players are computer-run robots, so they have full access to the dictionary and automatically make the biggest word they find, for max points. It’s really hard to beat that unfortunately. You can tell because they’re all two words with a capital letter at the start of each, like StormHarbor or FlyingBird.

@dan-mitchell Probably not as entertaining as you'd imagine. They didn't say a word until near the end, when they told me I had too many things open on my computer because their screen was jumping again. Sort of "I've asked you before not to have things open I don't know why you won't listen to me."

Again, if it is causing the issues I'll apologize, but why for just this person and not all my opponents, and why sometimes and not others. Last evening I barely had anything open, I think I'd even closed the Facebook window. I may have been running my mail app in the background, but not in the browser, it's a separate app, completely sandboxed from all other apps.

I see what you're saying about word validation, but I suspect that the interface loads on each machine and keystrokes and button presses are sent to the server. The server then tells each computer what to display. How it's rendered, for good or bad, is likely independent of who else is online.

I think it's possible there are too many people signed in, slowing the server down for everyone. But that wouldn't cause visual glitches in one person's screen, would it?

Regardless, I'm now censored because I failed to accept responsibility for my behavior and actions and blamed them (I did not, I blamed the interface). So it shouldn't come up again. I just wanted to be sure it wasn't on my end.

@betterlate1-0 If admins are keeping score, I vote for adjourn to come back. It used to be nice when two players mutually agreed.

As far as a busy/away status indicator, if someone is busy or away why stay logged in. There's no longer a limit on the number of people in the lobby, so you can get right back in later when you're not busy or actually away. Just close the window, then sign back in when you get back. Not being online is a great way to tell people you're not available to play right now.

@thatguythere202 yeah, I think we all witnessed this mentality after the 2020 election. It doesn't matter what the facts are, or what experts say, once someone's made up their mind that's the truth of it and nothing will shake them. Seeing it with COVID and vaccines too. I could have 20 computer experts and the administrators of the site weigh in on this, and in the end it would still somehow be my computer causing the issues.

@betterlate1-0 so he (and the rest of us) aren't allowed to express opinions that might vary from yours without it being a person attack? It's okay for us to say "oh, good idea better" or "oh, I don't see the merit in that idea" without us meaning it personally. That's how I meant my reply, for example.

@dan-mitchell and regardless of what someone may think, I am seriously curious about this issue, about whether we can somehow be impacting performance across the miles. If it is possible, the admins need to know about it, because that seems like bad design, as well as dangerous. If things on my computer are messing with lex, that means something other than the game is traveling to their servers and that's NOT reassuring to me as a user.

@foxyvonbeerloff True. If all it took were one player asking admin to mute other players, none of us would have chat. Someone would have just sat there filing reports against everyone except themselves by now.

@betterlate1-0 actually, it's about people giving admins suggestions to improve the game and everyone chiming in on that subject. I wasn't lying, I think the adjourn is a great idea, but I don't see the point in a status indicator when it's easy to log off if you're busy or when you leave (away). There's no vast conspiracy here, no one attacking anyone personally (or if there is it isn't me or map), just folks weighing in on features. Deep, cleansing breath...

@betterlate1-0 so he (and the rest of us) aren't allowed to express opinions that might vary from yours without it being a person attack? It's okay for us to say "oh, good idea better" or "oh, I don't see the merit in that idea" without us meaning it personally. That's how I meant my reply, for example.

@betterlate1-0 If admins are keeping score, I vote for adjourn to come back. It used to be nice when two players mutually agreed.

As far as a busy/away status indicator, if someone is busy or away why stay logged in. There's no longer a limit on the number of people in the lobby, so you can get right back in later when you're not busy or actually away. Just close the window, then sign back in when you get back. Not being online is a great way to tell people you're not available to play right now.

@sakamvari it was 12 days ago now, and history only seems to show seven days of games, so I can no longer give you game numbers, my apologies.

@sakamvari next time it happens, sure!

@sakamvari only some.

@betterlate1-0 I'm aware, but that's not what happened. The opponent gained time without me adding it.

@pangloss neither. MacOS with Safari.

@mapmakere good. No word from the admins yet, so I'll take it as a highly unlikely occurrence and just keep on doing what I do in the background.