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by eieio 340 days ago
Yeah the big race here is that you've made a move (which might not be valid) and you're waiting on a response for that move - and you can receive other moves while you're waiting.

I don't think requesting a new snapshot really helps there. If you do that you're dramatically extending the amount of time that the user sees an invalid state, since you're adding a whole new server roundtrip to the reconciliation process.