I've just had a game (5051932 against HK-ad3) during which my browser hung. Having killed and restarted the browser I logged back in and found myself at the 'Matching' screen rather than back in the game that I had been playing. My unfortunate opponent will have had to wait to force a resignation and will no doubt be under the false impression that I quit the game because I was losing.
I've had a browser hang in the past and have successfully reconnected to the game by killing the browser, restarting it and then logging in again, so I'm puzzled as to why it didn't work this time, though in his description of the latest release Stef referred to improvements when reconnecting. Has one of those 'improvements' caused a problem?
By the way I'm dane-m when playing.
Judging by the time of your post, this was in the middle of a release.
Releasing 1.2.9 was a bit troublesome and took much longer then usual.
Behind the scenes, we have two separate environments on every machine we use:
metaserver-A, frankfurt-A, oregon-A, tokyo-A
metaserver-B, frankfurt-B, oregon-B, tokyo-B
We alternate using the A-environment and the B-environment. This allows us to do a new release without killing the current connections, and everyone still connected to the old environment can just play out their games. New connections are automatically forwarded to the new environment, and when your game is finished it asks you to reload to establish such a new connection.
Unfortunately this system doesn't deal at all with people accidentally losing their connection in the meanwhile. You can't reach the old environment anymore so loss of connection during a release means you just lost the game. Maybe one day I'll find a way to deal with that too, but so far it hasn't been worth the effort.
