[thepossum]

Hi there

Was talking to few different people. One via their profile and one via chat
Both names show up in chat but when I click on the name in chat that I had been talking to via profile and write a message it went to the other person
Could be embarrassing
Happened a few times too.
Not just a mis-click
I don't get the logic. Click on name in chat and usually that is who you can talk to - I was not in a table, just out in the ether
Fortunately nothing embarrassing and personal
I know I seem like the world's most paranoid person but so many things these days cause problems and misdirected information in all areas of our life that some people could even think it was deliberate

When you think of the amount of money going into tech investment these days its remarkable how many things break or don't seem well tested
Huge corporations some of them too. I don't get it

Maybe its linked with information theory and error and variance and that things can't be too tied down or they break
But it can be scary when its your information that goes astray

Where does all that misdirected information end up? Down the back of someone's lounge behind a cushion that they find years later
Maybe we could all end up suffocating under piles of misdirected information one day

regards

P

[barmar]

When you click on a name, it pops up their profile. You can chat to them by typing in the chat line at the bottom of the profile window.

This doesn't change the destination used in the main chat window. To change that, you have to use the menu at the left of the chat input line.

[thepossum]

barmar, on 2023-March-01, 15:23, said:

When you click on a name, it pops up their profile. You can chat to them by typing in the chat line at the bottom of the profile window.

This doesn't change the destination used in the main chat window. To change that, you have to use the menu at the left of the chat input line.

Thx. I did realise what was going on eventually

For some reason I had the instinct that clicking on name in chat would set their name to talk to in chat - embarassing

[barmar]

I think the Windows and/or Flash versions of BBO may have worked that way, clicking on a player name changed the default destination. I can't remember any more, but maybe that's where you got your instinct from.