Simple improvements to gameinprogress page

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KnowMad
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Simple improvements to gameinprogress page

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If you play multiple games simultaneously, You may have seen the https://boardgamearena.com/gameinprogress page, which lists all of your currently active games you are playing. This is my favorite page on BGA!

I have a few minor improvements that could streamline this even more for everyone:
1) Under each game it shows the userids of the players playing, and puts a spinning hourglass next to the player whos turn it is.
I propose that the order of the players be changed so that MY userid is first in the list. This way, I only need to scan down the left side of the page for spinning hourglasses to know which game I need to click on and take a turn.

2) Once I've taken a turn in one game, there is a red button that says "X table(s) are waiting for you ->" which will take you to another game. I'd prefer that that button be changed if there are more than 1 table waiting for me, to instead take me to this https://boardgamearena.com/gameinprogress URL so that I can pick the next game I want to play. More often than not I don't like whichever game it takes me to, and I end up doing that manually anyway. This could easily be a setting if you didn't want to change this behavior for all, but it seems simple enough to just change.

3) This next one probably would require a setting, but it's okay for me as I never play more than one table of the same game simultaneously.
Have a setting (default off) that if enabled, it would rearrange the games on https://boardgamearena.com/gameinprogress to put the ones that it's my turn to play at the top, and the ones that I JUST played at the bottom. This might confuse people who play multiple copies of the same game at the same time.
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JojoGrace
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Re: Simple improvements to gameinprogress page

Post by JojoGrace »

It would also be very convenient to see if you already have an active table for whatever game you may want to start. I like to have 1 of each table going for my favorite games and I have a lot of favorite games. So I have to search the active games page to ensure I don't double up on any games (I do poorly in strategy if I'm playing more than one of a game)
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