Alerts does not work properly

Hi,

If you made a move and there are no active games at the moment and you stay on the board you wont get any alerts until current person make a reply move.

I consider this as a bug as if you simply stay on board it will notify about bew ready games.

As a result curently you make a move and wait for reply and do not see that someone else replyed to you and another game is ready.

where would you like the alert to showup? in your alerts panel? or you want the page to refresh automatically to the new game?

"I noticed that,  also, when you minimize the chess.com internet explorer window in order to do other work you don't always get notified by the "MY MOVE" flashing  notification."

Is there a way that the color can change on the button on the task bar when minimized, kind of like windows messenger does when you have a new IM.

these are actually all really difficult problems to solve. it is impossible actually to make the taskbar flash without using a popup, which is terrible. and i'm not sure we can do ajax-updated alerts panels - it might be terribly expensive in terms of hardware and site performance.

if anyone knows how to solve these problems....

Hi Eric,

I'm not sure I've got why you make a difference between awaiting an alert from a single playr (curent one) or from anyone else. (I know what is ajax/etc as I'm a software developer).

Regardign performance I think you should activly use caching & "304 -Not Modified" status code to minimize traffic/load.

A quite simple and cheap option could be to have a static text file per each player with palin "next ready game id" as a content.

Once someone replyed to a playr we should update it. You could even host it on a separete 3d party server/service.

Client by timer check the file and if it changed jump to the game or make an alert.

Teoreticly should works.