How would you describe this type of disappointment in an online chat room?

[gomipile]

Here's the setting: That moment when you're almost done typing a message into an online chat, and someone else's message pops up that changes the context of your message such that it would need to be completely rewritten or just can't have the same connotation it would have if you'd hit Enter a few seconds earlier?

Is there a word or short phrase for that?

I'm not talking about someone stealing my thunder or anything like that. But, say, I was about to say something, and someone posts a question just similar enough in content that it would look like my statement is a poorly worded answer to their question, when i wanted it to stand alone and would have been fine had they not posted that question first.

[Batcathat]

Ah yes, sounds like a classic case of Pre-Posting Third Party Recontexualization Disgruntlement.

(No, I don't think there's a word for that. I do know the feeling you talk about though, so maybe there should be).

[Thomas Cardew]

I'd suggest:

Invalidation: for when the context changes or renders your response, well invalid.

Scooped: for when someone posts what you want to say first.

Overtaken by events(or posts): for when the conversation moves past what you want to talk about.

[KillianHawkeye]

Ah yes, sounds like a classic case of Pre-Posting Third Party Recontexualization Disgruntlement.

Ex post redacto? :smallwink:

[Brother Oni]

Given that it involves humiliation and embarrassment, there probably a German compound noun that fits the bill exactly. :smalltongue:

[Jimorian]

The Questionable Content webcomic forum has a feature that if somebody else has replied to the thread while you were typing your own response, when you hit "post" it will give you a warning that somebody else has posted so you can review their post to see if it affects your own. So not live chat, but gives the same effect.

Discord is also very good for supplying this feeling, particularly because you can see a "personX is typing" notification, so it almost becomes a game of chicken in both directions. "Do I wait to see their context, or do I try to post first to avoid needing to edit?"

[Fyraltari]

Given that it involves humiliation and embarrassment, there probably a German compound noun that fits the bill exactly. :smalltongue:

Oh, it's easy, you jus take all of these words:

Pre-Posting Third Party Recontexualization Disgruntlement.
translate each to German independently and stitch them together.

[Devils_Advocate]

"Preempt" is the most applicable verb I can think of.

If you want to clarify that your message isn't a response to the most recent message, you can direct it at someone else by sticking e.g. "Robin," or "@Robin:" or whatever at the beginning. If you don't intend to reply to any specific individual, you could address your message to "Everyone" instead.

[Tyndmyr]

Oh, it's easy, you jus take all of these words:

translate each to German independently and stitch them together.

Uhhh,
Rekontexualisierungdrittanbieternveröffentlichung?

[Fyraltari]

Uhhh,
Rekontexualisierungdrittanbieternveröffentlichung?

Sounds about right.

[Iruka]

Given that it involves humiliation and embarrassment, there probably a German compound noun that fits the bill exactly. :smalltongue:

It is

Präveröffentlichungsrekontextualisierungsverärgeru ng

or

Vorabsendungsneueinordnungsfrust

if you want to keep it light and kolloquial.
the above is of course nonsense, no one would say that
But I actually think that English offers a more elegant expression:

post-block frustration