It's because the underlying technology (socket.io) uses websockets to asynchronously communicate between clients. Most competent developers add logic that resyncs the messages properly on each end. However, SLS did not.
GGMM - Wow. I'm only seeing the merged message thing maybe 10% of the time in a fairly interactive dialog. Might have to do with how many messages cross on the wire.
Seems to happen if we are each sending a message at the same time.
Yep. It happens about 75% of the time for me. If you back out and go back in, the problem magically disappears.
I have a support ticket in, but I can't get the follow-up to send, because of course I can't.
No, but we have received IMs about wanting to merge.
~Allen
Yep, merging with previous. This IM crap is beyond ridiculous.
Has anyone else noticed that the new Message sometimes merges messages? What I mean by that is if I'm sending a message at the sane time as I'm receiving one, my message actually shows up at the end of their message instead of as a separate one coming from me.
Doesn't happen all the time but I've seen it happen at least 2-3 times now. Might be worth a ticket if it's more widespread and reproducing it might be difficult.
