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Games adjudicated as lost and 10 minute timeout on a count for leaving the page very briefly

A few minutes ago I was playing a 20 minute rapid game (lichess.org/ilvsKOLpbEne) while testing the new version of my e-Board android app

Since this version apparently does not behave well with the Lichess layout when turned the phone into landscape mode, I had to quickly refresh the page, going back on the (embedded) browser and forward again to the game... it took less than 30 seconds, the gap between me moving Qc7 and opponent replying f4, which was not on the board when i refreshed, and yet I found out the game has been abandoned (no countdown?!) and my account got a 10 minute timeout for, I am assuming, losing the game intentionally, which was not the case

With this same e-board, other versions of the software, but also while playing normally on the website, I never had a problem with quickly joining back the game if for whatever reason I had to close the game page for a very short while

Did something else trigger the timeout, or there is now an extremely short grace period to join back?
@Antaniserse said in #1:
> A few minutes ago I was playing a 20 minute rapid game (lichess.org/ilvsKOLpbEne) while testing the new version of my e-Board android app
>
> Since this version apparently does not behave well with the Lichess layout when turned the phone into landscape mode, I had to quickly refresh the page, going back on the (embedded) browser and forward again to the game... it took less than 30 seconds, the gap between me moving Qc7 and opponent replying f4, which was not on the board when i refreshed, and yet I found out the game has been abandoned (no countdown?!) and my account got a 10 minute timeout for, I am assuming, losing the game intentionally, which was not the case
>
> With this same e-board, other versions of the software, but also while playing normally on the website, I never had a problem with quickly joining back the game if for whatever reason I had to close the game page for a very short while
>
> Did something else trigger the timeout, or there is now an extremely short grace period to join back?

Time out works like this you get x time based on time control this time is for the whole game meaning if you dc(disconnect) for 5 seconds you have x-5 meaning you could leave for even a second and loose if you used all the time during the game
@for_cryingout_loud said in #2:
> Time out works like this you get x time based on time control this time is for the whole game meaning if you dc(disconnect) for 5 seconds you have x-5 meaning you could leave for even a second and loose if you used all the time during the game

Ok, but in this instance the game was just starting and we both had more than 18 minutes left, and I think it was the first or at most the second (very short) disconnection I had in the game
@Antaniserse said in #3:
> Ok, but in this instance the game was just starting and we both had more than 18 minutes left

I'm just saying thats how dc time works also note your time left on the clock has nothing todo with it you can still have hours on the click and loose due to dc time
(if one of the devs see this can you post a link to the line of code that handles dc time pls)
@for_cryingout_loud said in #4:
> I'm just saying thats how dc time works also note your time left on the clock has nothing todo with it you can still have hours on the click and loose due to dc time

Yes, I know that, but the grace period in rapid&classic is usually long enough to handle much longer DC... this time I had barely hit back and refresh on the page, I even got showed the usual big blue button to "JOIN GAME" back for a second, but then I got the 10 minute ban screen

I am asking not necessarily because I think something is bugged on Lichess, but to be sure that there wasn't something else in the e-board app that triggered this behaviour , so I can make a bug report to them as well

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