if i am playing a tourament, and i have a another tab open with a previous game from the tournament, at the end of the game i am playing the system automatically pairs me for another game. This happens even though i press pause.
I suspect this is the cause of many "non-mover" games, because we press pause and walk away, but the system pairs us anyway.
I don't want this to happen. No one does. Please make it stop.
Don't have multiple tabs with the same tournament open.
And, you need to make sure that pause takes effect before walking away.
Look, the two (or many) tabs you have open operate independent of each other in reporting back to the server. If you have one open which is saying: "Hey, I'm free, [pair] me, me, me ..." Your wish is the server's demand. Now, if the server knows you're in-game, then you can't be paired again for another game. (You're probably causing the server issues by keeping multiple tournament tabs open.)
This could technically be fixed in front-end code, such that the JavaScript running the the browser communicates with multiple sessions. But then it has to peek at open tabs instead of sandboxing and isolating them. Or, let's say in one tab you hit pause, and the setting is either in local storage, cookie, or browser db ... it depends on the update interval for the other tab to continuously check this value (in the mean time, the server is matching you once a game has completed, and this could create a lag-based race condition).
So, best effort, the same as you're saying: "Please make it stop..."
It could also be said: "Please only use one tab per tournament." (Otherwise, detecting multiple tabs open tends to get people in trouble; such as when they have computer analysis of a game or position open ...)
Here's what I do: When a game ends, if I want to review it for later, I right-click and open the "Analysis Board" (button) in a new tab or window, then I either hit "Pause" or "Back to Tournament" ... instead of keeping multiple tournament tabs open and then whining, crying or complaining.
Don't right-click on "Back to Tournament" or "Pause" and open that in a new window. That's a recipe for the disaster you're complaining about.
You know, before i posted, i knew some idiot would say something like, "well dont keep tabs open in the background then!!!!!"
And you are that idiot. Congratulations.
The background tabs shouldnt be saying anything. If the active tab waits for my input, why should the background tabs act on their own?
Aawwww, that's so sweet of you. Thank you for honoring me with the "Idiot Award For Most Obvious Observation." I humbly accept and I would like to thank
@adondevamos for giving me the opportunity to show-off how talented I am.
> "The background tabs shouldnt be saying anything. If the active tab waits for my input, why should the background tabs act on their own?"
That's not the way it works. Each (active) browser has code running behind it. LiChess is a VERY CLEAN website (not a lot of BS behind the scenes; in fact, NONE). You would have to manually "sleep" a browser tab which was once active. Versus closing your browser, and having a bunch of tabs open-up again, and only the tabs you access directly then load the content at the URL (from your previous session).
If you open a tab, such as for an event, a tournament, which is ongoing, the code behind that tab continues running. You're still and active participant in the tournament. Unless you sleep that tab (i.e. manually) and tell the browser to stop doing anything with that tab ... or just go to that tab and "pause" or go to the analysis board.
What's so hard to understand about this? (Why does Capitan Obvious have to make a point about how obtuse it is to change the world to accommodate the whims of one user.)
"You know, before i posted, i knew some idiot would say something like, "well dont keep tabs open in the background then!!!!!"
Do you want a solution, or do you want someone to pat you on the back and tell you to keep your chin up, you'll find a way through this?
Pause the tournament on all of your open tabs of the tournament.
Pausing it on one tab is enough (I just tested). That is, pause the tournament BEFORE your game is over.
I know people who keep a background tab open specifically for getting paired quicker (as you're considered available for pairing as soon as your game ends rather than after you've clicked "back to tournament" and the page has loaded).
Huh, both of these points are interesting:
* Apparently having a background tab open helps with getting a pairing? But that suggests that "return to tournament" does not immediately make a player eligible.
* Apparently pausing does not actually pause if you have mulitple tabs open? I assumed only a browser tab not-paused in the tournament lobby was eligible for pairing.
"But that suggests that "return to tournament" does not immediately make a player eligible."
Why does it suggest that?
The point of having the tab open, if I'm understanding it correctly, is that you don't have to click that button before being eligible again.
Lichess is behaving in an undesireable way.
If the developers wanted people to be automatically paired up, they wouldnt offer us the opportunity to "pause" or "return to tournament".
Please fix.
