Opponent timed out but I lost

Hey team,

I was playing a game of rapid and my opponent timed out... from 8 mins down to 0. After the clock hit 0, nothing happened.

I then got the warning message for running down the clock and lost the game despite from my view having 9:30 left.

Just flagging incase it's a known issue.

Cheers,

@theaussierookie
What happened is you got disconnected from lichess and did not notice or get told by your browser. Which made your opponents clock tick down to 0 and make it seem that you won but when you exit or reload the page or click to analyse you get reconnected and see that you lost because you never got your opponents move.
you can help it by refreshing every 30 seconds during your opponents turn.
also read: lichess.org/faq#disconnection-loss
https://lichess.org/account/network

@theaussierookie When you have the impression your opponent takes too much time, don't wait ... reload the page.

The disconnection @for_cryingout_loud is talking about is a connection called websocket essential for asynchroneous activity (in simple word, the server is pushing data back to you).

Reloading the page is not going to drop you from the game (even if the browser asks 'are you sure you want to leave the page') and it will initiate a new connection for the async traffic. And if you were really disconnected you will see your clock having a drop and the opponent move being played immediately.

how could it?

probably a bug or you got timed out the same time or you`re just lying to have fun.

It is not always the fault of your connection or the browser.
When your opponents time runs out, but you lost anyways,
it can be because the moderator stopped the tournament to
help your opponent win.

So you never get the move your opponent played, and will
eventually be given the loss for leaving the page as you are
stuck there.

Evidence of the moderator's cheating will be that the
tournament is not reloaded into the tournaments display
page because the moderator stopped the tournament
before its natural time ran out. The web page makes the
assumption that it was deleted.

So next time, just take screenshots of all the mayhem
and send them to Lichess. You'll find that they don't care
about your explanation, or evidence.

@DirTyrotTenpig read #2

@DirTyrotTenpig said in #6:

You have spread this conspiracy theories before: https://lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/no-way-to-send-lichess-a-screenshot#3

Just stop it. It makes absolutely no sense. And you didn't provide any of your "proofs".

Don't hijack other people's thread for your nonsense.