You probably noticed that BGA service is having some stability difficulties these 4 past days.
We owe you an full explanation of the reasons of these stability issues, and what we are doing to solve them. Here it is:
From the beginning of Board Game Arena, the real-time notification service that allows you to be notified of your opponents moves is having some weakness and instabilities. If you are sometimes disconnected/reconnected, if you have to do "F5" very often during a game, or if you sometimes discover that it was your turn despite your browser says it is not... then you experienced this weakness.
Five years ago, when we created BGA, a website that was able to be updated in realtime was very uncommon. Very few technologies was existing at this time to do this. We had to do some specific work to achieve this, but as you notice it was not 100% reliable.
Now, the situation is quite different. The technology has evolved, and there are now good and reliable technologies to have a realtime support in browsers. We recently decided to switched to one of this new technology.
This change is not easy. This is like replacing some building foundations without breaking the building. 4 days ago, few hours after we started to make change, the service crashes unexpectedly. Then, 4 or 5 times we thought we fixed this issue, but 4 or 5 times the service crashed again. Now, we are 100% back to the previous situation when everything was stable.
We are going to analyze what happened and will try again to do this evolution in few weeks. I know this may be painful sometimes, but this will allow all of you to enjoy a much comfortable service afterwards. Of course, we removed all penalties from the past 4 days on BGA.
Thank you for your understanding and sorry for the games that has been lost.
We owe you an full explanation of the reasons of these stability issues, and what we are doing to solve them. Here it is:
From the beginning of Board Game Arena, the real-time notification service that allows you to be notified of your opponents moves is having some weakness and instabilities. If you are sometimes disconnected/reconnected, if you have to do "F5" very often during a game, or if you sometimes discover that it was your turn despite your browser says it is not... then you experienced this weakness.
Five years ago, when we created BGA, a website that was able to be updated in realtime was very uncommon. Very few technologies was existing at this time to do this. We had to do some specific work to achieve this, but as you notice it was not 100% reliable.
Now, the situation is quite different. The technology has evolved, and there are now good and reliable technologies to have a realtime support in browsers. We recently decided to switched to one of this new technology.
This change is not easy. This is like replacing some building foundations without breaking the building. 4 days ago, few hours after we started to make change, the service crashes unexpectedly. Then, 4 or 5 times we thought we fixed this issue, but 4 or 5 times the service crashed again. Now, we are 100% back to the previous situation when everything was stable.
We are going to analyze what happened and will try again to do this evolution in few weeks. I know this may be painful sometimes, but this will allow all of you to enjoy a much comfortable service afterwards. Of course, we removed all penalties from the past 4 days on BGA.
Thank you for your understanding and sorry for the games that has been lost.
