@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.

@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.

@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.

@sakamvari next time it happens, sure!

@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.

@algor totally agree. I don't have "enemies," but if I did could just censor. I cannot censor people who've never tried partners and who either won't or don't listen to the host explain the play.

@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.

@dan-mitchell I never noticed that about the play button. So cool! Thanks for pointing it out.

@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.