When I type sometimes in the character builder, it glitches and goes back and deletes parts of words I just wrote. It’s getting kinda annoying honestly. I don’t know if anyone else has this problem but please help.
I’m really sorry to hear you’re running into trouble. This is part of something that we’re actively investigating how to improve. If you’re interested in the more technical aspect of what’s happening I’ll quote one of our developers below.
It’s complicated to explain, but it’s called debounce, it’s a tactic used to gather information and make one database write with it rather than a write for every single keystroke every user makes on every sheet on demiplane which would become very problematic very fast… maybe think of it like this:
I type in the discord chat window, discord doesn’t have to do anything with that until I hit enter. it can let me type all day and do nothing until I hit enter and it’s just one operation. That’s fine for discord, and a lot of the web works that way, even when your progress is saved on a form or what have you, that’s frequently saved locally in your browser (cookies, local storage etc.) and only sent to the server when you click ‘ok’ or hit enter or something similar. Not ideal for what we want.
Likewise if we spun up a bespoke server that only you interacted with and had it’s own database, well then you would never notice. but that would limit access to the data for your character and have other consequences.
In the end it’s something we try to balance and can be difficult to nail for the user experience we want.
TLDR: it’s a way to reduce the database load and make the whole app and platform performant for all users, we try to balance it for individual user experience but it can be hard to get right, especially when you are typing.
Thanks! honestly not smart enough to understand what that block of intelligent text means, but thanks for your help!