Game in Progress page update

[jestaoz]

Please change it back. It was simple and uncluttered and easy to see the relevant information. Now there is too much information trying to be given in such a small area and too many colours.

[Alebaster]

Is there any way to change everything back? The formatting is weird. All the words are cut off. You can't see the name of the game, who is playing or anything. It makes it difficult to find the game you want to play. I'm on a MacBook Pro. On my phone I can't see anything at all. Shouldn't it scale to different size or is meant to be this way? It doesn't make any sense.

[Elekid]

The new minimalistic GUI for the Games in Progress page is horrible. Please doon't do that for the rest of the site. Please add an option to bring back the classic interface.

[5cardstud]

Chiming in to see if information that's gone missing on the new 'gameinprogress' (GIP) is still out there, and I just don't know where to find it.

• Game setup options - e.g. turns/day, and game specifics like Agricola decks or Ark Nova maps

• Player experience with the game - e.g. Beginner, Strong Player, Expert.

• Counted list all BGA games, giving total players, total real-time tables, and total turn-based tables per game.

Found #1. So long as you have your view set to medium or large display in the filter, game setup options show up on GIP. In small display are they hidden. Now just need to find #2 and #3.

[QBreezy]

Respectfully, I must agree with the many that strongly dislike these changes. Especially for the sidebar. Everything's big and boxy and clunky with words being cut off and very little information conveyed. I'd like at least an option to revert the changes.

[Leoishere]

Could we have a text-based option, please? Same as the current one-column list but without the images and the visual noise.

Or... is there an option for us to turn images off on that page ourselves using the CSS customisation page?

Yes. Currently half the writing is cut off.
Maybe they could alter it so that you just see the name of the game - clearly - then if you scroll over it the additional information pops up. That way we have the best of both worlds but you can choose.

[crouik]

Chiming in to see if information that's gone missing on the new 'gameinprogress' (GIP) is still out there, and I just don't know where to find it.

• Game setup options - e.g. turns/day, and game specifics like Agricola decks or Ark Nova maps

• Player experience with the game - e.g. Beginner, Strong Player, Expert.

• Counted list all BGA games, giving total players, total real-time tables, and total turn-based tables per game.

Found #1. So long as you have your view set to medium or large display in the filter, game setup options show up on GIP. In small display are they hidden. Now just need to find #2 and #3.

I usualy hate the changes... but the new page is kinda cool.
I still miss the player experience display : I was usualy watching games from strong or expert playres. How can I spot them now ?

[paulsche]

The task is to list several games, with various information per game. The obvious, simple and clear solution would be to display this in a TABLE. (with columns, rows, maybe sortable) However, you decide to place weird "micro-pages/blocks" all over the place, that have not even the same size.

I don't hope to achieve or change anything, but with all those changes in the last years/months I try to focus on the games itself, and try so spend as little time as possible on those pages. It is getting harder and harder to get a simple overview like "how many tables of game XY to I have open". You hide the relevant things, and waste space with things that are not relevant. For me, within the last years it has become more complicated and time-consuming to create/join my games. It does not feel as if the design is beeing made by someone actually playing on BGA.

Every page tries to display everything. Why have different page types at all? So much redundancy. The feeling of a cheap boulevard-newspaper. It could be so simple, lean, clean, and use half the space it does now.

Cheers from a somewhat BGA-frustrated webdesigner/programmer

[LesserJester]

The task is to list several games, with various information per game. The obvious, simple and clear solution would be to display this in a TABLE. (with columns, rows, maybe sortable) However, you decide to place weird "micro-pages/blocks" all over the place, that have not even the same size.

I don't hope to achieve or change anything, but with all those changes in the last years/months I try to focus on the games itself, and try so spend as little time as possible on those pages. It is getting harder and harder to get a simple overview like "how many tables of game XY to I have open". You hide the relevant things, and waste space with things that are not relevant. For me, within the last years it has become more complicated and time-consuming to create/join my games. It does not feel as if the design is beeing made by someone actually playing on BGA.

Every page tries to display everything. Why have different page types at all? So much redundancy. The feeling of a cheap boulevard-newspaper. It could be so simple, lean, clean, and use half the space it does now.

Cheers from a somewhat BGA-frustrated webdesigner/programmer

I have to agree. The old version was far more functional, practical, efficient, clean, simple, whatever adjective you prefer. This new version is awful by comparison. Same with the lobby redesign. Achieved little gain for awful bloat. This is more of the same retrograde when what was there just needed a few basic tweaks by comparison.

idk why these changes keep getting made either. It puzzles me tbh. We just have to hope they listen to the feedback and have the courage to undo this mess.

[KenFin1]

I can understand why somebody MIGHT care whether a game is regular, Arena or Tournament but I sure don't. Can't we have a setting that just groups all the games in one big list? Get rid of all the shortcuts, empty sections that fill the page, etc?
Anyway I kludged some CSS together that is close. You can put it on you CSS page https://boardgamearena.com/preferences?section=advanced
https://imgur.com/a/TeDNmfu Edit to add link to img as it did not show

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#main-content>div>div.bga-player-progress-list__section>h1, #main-content>div>div.bga-player-progress-list__section>div>div>div:first-of-type:not(.bga-game-progress-list-section__icon-holder) {
display:none;
}

Thanks for sharing this. It works, kind of, but drops out if there are any tables waiting to start/get filled, which get placed in the "play" and "arena" sections but in a way they are not as easily referenced.