Board Game Arena

P.S. As an addendum, update how you communicate about the site being down. The 'we'll be back in 10 minutes, but if we're not, check out X for details' is unfortunately a) evasive (no real time frame provided), and b) inaccessible to folks without access to X. More practices we want to avoid. Be sp...

I can’t start a game, and the page says it’s “unavailable for technical reasons”. What happened?

For Ancient Knowledge, I’m using Safari on an IPad Pro 12.9 inch 4th generation, running iOS 17.1.2. I have a very hard time getting clicks to register on that game, even if I’m using a mouse.

It only kind of works for me. I get a push notification, but it doesn’t do the badge notification. Clicking on the notification takes me to the web app, but the web app doesn’t refresh, so I’m looking at my list of games but no indication of which game I have a turn in. When I check my BGA tab in Sa...

If you have a Bluetooth mouse synced to your iOS device, it makes some of the unplayable stuff work again. With a mouse, you can hover the cursor over things like the cards in Seasons, and you can use the scroll wheel to zoom out on the playing field in Carcassonne.