litphoria

I think you remember me talking about this, but basically, when a chat is active enough to have two people typing at the same time and one of them sends while the other is typing, the second person often has their typing interrupted without warning or notice aside from the removed text.

With more experience, the New Message Incoming notification seemed to be the point at which it always occurs. While typing, I have noticed a lost character (last visibly typed character disappears), cursor jumping to end of line while I was busy editing in middle of line, and entirely wiping the whole message. Once, during heavy replies, while I was editing a long post, I lost the post, started a new post that described what just happened, lost that post when the first half of the previous post was returned to the box (!) and finally, lost that post too. After all this, I found I was in a mode where any message I typed and sent was not sent. So they were lost too, but the previous ones were deleted from the box prior to me finishing. The subsequent ones were lost after hitting send. A refresh of the page was required to re-establish a working connection.