I'm not a big fan of the new general chat, personal reason why:
It's something to do in idle time. If I'm idle then I'm not wanting to open up the messages and scroll through. I used to be able to glance to the side and see 'what's up'. Playing mainly turn-based games the number of times I come back to the page is quite frequent. If a general message pops up it's quite distracting, I am thinking it's a personal message coming through, but no just a call for a Saboteur game. For me, It was less distracting when it was always there, and far easier to scan all the messages very briefly to see if there was something of interest.
It's something to do in idle time. If I'm idle then I'm not wanting to open up the messages and scroll through. I used to be able to glance to the side and see 'what's up'. Playing mainly turn-based games the number of times I come back to the page is quite frequent. If a general message pops up it's quite distracting, I am thinking it's a personal message coming through, but no just a call for a Saboteur game. For me, It was less distracting when it was always there, and far easier to scan all the messages very briefly to see if there was something of interest.
davinksi what is this chat 12:39:07
boardgame arena sure changed.. 12:39:51
jamaroyal general chat to the entire site 12:40:18
Recyclops yeah this is recently new as of like two days ago.. not a huge fan lol 12:41:11
senatorhung yeah .. this general chat is not ideal .. especially since i keep multiple BGA tabs open ... 12:43:06
davinksi its interesting.. 12:43:09
davinksi can you hide it? it kinda is nice to have a general chat but like the time limit is super annoying 12:44:46
nmego you can uncheck notify chat messages, time limit is so that people don't spam 12:45:12
davinksi ah and I guess one is forced to write longer messages..are you kidding me the time gets longer??240 seconds now. 12:48:57
Recyclops you can close this but then idk how to get it back 12:52:03
80Hg Ah, so this is where the chat went 12:52:54
davinksi I wouldnt really call this a chat. I think the time getting longer is just bs:O