Board Game Arena

Ah right, sorry. Another point is that it could be useful to encourage a pseudo-real-time situation, where players stick around a table while the others are playing. A first step could be to show which players are active or at least present in your tables, so that you know it is worth it to wait til...

hi, I wanted to ask whether there is a reason for the popups being at the top of the screen and covering the action links that are usually there.

If they were in the middle of the screen one could scroll up or down to move them away from important things, but at the top you can't.

There definitely needs to be a maximum amount of time you can accumulate, especially for slower games. If you happen to play 8 moves in a 2 moves/day game you accumulate way too much time.
Maybe 2 days maximum?