When browser left open, chat window is filled with errors

After leaving the browser open for several hours (with several tabs open to
go2me links)  each tab had, in the chat window, a long list of errors:

First:
Go2.me: Lost authorization for chat...retrying - 3 hours ago

Then repeatedly after:
Go2.me: The Go2.me server failed to respond - 1 hour ago

While this message may be useful at times, I feel like filling up the chat
window with errors every time a user goes AFK will make the site look buggy.

Expected (minimum): Prevent the system from displaying multiple errors in a
row at least (dont repeat the second message, i got it 4 times in the
particular window i still have open).  You should never display the same
error message twice in a row.

Expected (even better): Don't show errors unless the user makes an action
which they can tell failed (sending message failed).  Possibly, if there is
some problem connecting to the server (no longer live updating), put one
message that says "Disconnected: Refresh to reconnect."  But I think in
general, under-messaging errors is the better policy as it downplays
failures on the sites behalf.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by cwk...@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2009 at 5:58

Jeff-Lewis / g02me

When browser left open, chat window is filled with errors #39