Board Game Arena

You can choose your preferred game speed in the lobby.

https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35994

Read 'Some Explanation About: Relegations'. Some progresses are kept. Yours weren't enough.

If you want to fix something yourself, here's the link: https://studio.boardgamearena.com/studio But don't expect too much. It's quite possible the game you want to fix is not there, and requests to access its source code may be ignored :D (been there, done that, for clearly "abandoned" g...

To add my two cents, my view is that BGA as a whole puts a lot more emphasis on creating shiny new games than fixing the mountain of issues with existing games and the core website. BGA staffs don't focus on developing games, but they work with BGA framework itself (at least after they join BGA tea...

Estimated waiting time of <15 mins

Those bells are for games with long waiting time.
Popular games whose players don't have to wait a lot don't have a bell.

BGA does not support non-competitive mode tournaments

The publisher updated the rules. Check BGG page.

Many public domain games have tons of variants all over the world.
Unfortunately, implementing all of them is practically impossible for obvious reasons.
So, I will not work on variants which are not major variants and do not significantly improve the game.