Legend is randomly, occasionally, undoing changes

Has anyone else noticed Legend occasionally undoing things? Some letters just typed vanish, a node expanded suddenly closes, a filter term deleted comes back, or a drag and drop is reversed?

Or maybe some characters go missing to the left of your cursor, only to reappear when you type the next character?

If you think you've seen this behaviour, please add your voice to this post.

This simply was not happening until the first app update under the new partnership. Those changes were rolled back in beta, so I was able to use that reliably with zero issues until the second release clobbered beta, too.

Yonz is aware of it - I've provided a stack of detail in the old forum here - but I thought it was time to bring it back over to this forum, as a fair bit of time has passed without any decent indicator that there's a solution on the horizon. I've been working around this for three weeks now; it's two weeks since I posted this video (see YouTube below, watch from ~1:25), which shows characters being removed by the app after being typed, and it's just a royal pain in the butt to be having to watch closely whenever I make any change to make sure it actually sticks.

I haven't done any real programming for a couple of decades, but my digging suggests that it is something about "authoritative state overriding optimistic local writes" in a way that it just never used to.

It's clearly not affecting most users - presumably just those who, like us in Australia, are using tin cans and string for our internet - but the app has gone from having integrity to not having integrity in how it manages the changes we make, and I think that's a big deal.

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