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Tuesday 11 August 2015

Online or Offline??? Gmail or Gtalk doesn't matter


This is a strange behavior I observed while I was chatting online with my friend.

Application Used: Gtalk and Gmail chat
Reproducibility: 100%
Machine specific: No

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I expect people chatting with me to reply within 5-10 seconds after I send them a message.
I also promise to reply instantly unless I'm not infront of my monitor.

It so happened that I sent my friend a message and I did not get any reply for a minute.

I got irritated by him not responding and I started banging the keys on my keyboard.
Infact I banged only one key - the DOT '.'

I pressed the '.' (DOT without quotes) and pressed enter key.
This continued for 15-20 times continuously.

Then these messages were displayed on Gmail chat window(pop up) and Gtalk application respectively.






















As you can see on both the screenshots, the user is still Online indicated by the Green dot against the name.
And the message reads: "The user did not receive your chat" or "The user's email is offline and can't receive messages right now"

I liked this bug... Use of emotions helped me find this bug.
I don't really care if this is fixed or not but the behavior definitely brought a smile on my face.

:)

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