Board Game Arena

I have no idea how to open a table without filling it with random players. As a user, I would appreciate a clear way to start a game with friends without invites. I feel like in the old lobby we were able to open a table and send people a link to the table so they could opt themselves in? In my play...

Bump! Really would like to disable email notifications.

I too would really like to know how to deactivate the updates.

I think that it would clean things up a lot and make the discussion thread a lot more readable if we had subforums for each game.

Sidenote: Also, what is with those wrench icons in Gears and Piston? The rulebook really needs a description of the golden icons for quick reference...