You probably already know, but for years now, we haven't spent a day without questioning how Board Game Arena works and how to improve it. We are avid users, gamers, and above all, we love to have discussions with all of you to share thoughts about our platform.
Since the early versions of Board Game Arena, more than a decade ago, you've developed your own habits that have evolved with our ever-growing platform. We know that facing changes is never easy, but it’s not only about being the cool kid in town. Some changes are necessary. We don't want to disrupt your daily gaming routine, but we have to keep up with new habits, new players, and new technologies – and they're evolving fast!
That’s why today we would like to present you a new part of an ongoing process of change happening here. You have already seen the new game pages, slowly moving from the wooden background to a lighter and easier to read one, also bringing a lot of new tools for you to play with (filters, game covers, titles, etc...).
Now is time to bring the change to our most-visited page: the homepage.
There’s plenty of stuff for you to discover, new features and possibilities that we'll be expanding to the entire website.
Old habits die hard. We have taken care to keep the important elements, rearrange all the information, but also to help mobile users have a way much better experience than they could have before. This should give you a taste of how we envision shaping BGA's future interface. The new homepage is a new step, but we’re still far from the end product you all deserve and that we want to deliver.
It’s also a significant step for us as there are plenty of new features to bring to all of you: improved reliability, interface readability, accessibility for all, and all of that in more than 40 languages... It may not have been a challenge if we were only based on content, but we are more than that: forums, players, games, files and rules, settings, Arena and tournaments, ELO, ranks, moderation, platform compatibilities... and tutorials! You will like some, if not all, of these features, and that’s the beauty of it: you might be the only one to use BGA the way you do. And everyone has their own way to enjoy some good time here.
It’s not only a cosmetic change, but also the start of something bigger that we initiated 10 years ago, and a message of hope to all: Never take anything for granted, always question yourself.
We hope you will get used to it quickly, and that new habits will replace old ones - slowly but surely.
At the same time, we are taking caring of our servers, databases, optimizations, and getting us up to date on all levels. So, thanks to all of you (you’re more than 10 million users now!), and let’s celebrate this new face for the years to come (and our beloved testers' team for their dedication and valuable feedback)
May the randomness of the dice be with you!
Sincerely,
The BGA team.
Since the early versions of Board Game Arena, more than a decade ago, you've developed your own habits that have evolved with our ever-growing platform. We know that facing changes is never easy, but it’s not only about being the cool kid in town. Some changes are necessary. We don't want to disrupt your daily gaming routine, but we have to keep up with new habits, new players, and new technologies – and they're evolving fast!
That’s why today we would like to present you a new part of an ongoing process of change happening here. You have already seen the new game pages, slowly moving from the wooden background to a lighter and easier to read one, also bringing a lot of new tools for you to play with (filters, game covers, titles, etc...).
Now is time to bring the change to our most-visited page: the homepage.
There’s plenty of stuff for you to discover, new features and possibilities that we'll be expanding to the entire website.
Old habits die hard. We have taken care to keep the important elements, rearrange all the information, but also to help mobile users have a way much better experience than they could have before. This should give you a taste of how we envision shaping BGA's future interface. The new homepage is a new step, but we’re still far from the end product you all deserve and that we want to deliver.
It’s also a significant step for us as there are plenty of new features to bring to all of you: improved reliability, interface readability, accessibility for all, and all of that in more than 40 languages... It may not have been a challenge if we were only based on content, but we are more than that: forums, players, games, files and rules, settings, Arena and tournaments, ELO, ranks, moderation, platform compatibilities... and tutorials! You will like some, if not all, of these features, and that’s the beauty of it: you might be the only one to use BGA the way you do. And everyone has their own way to enjoy some good time here.
It’s not only a cosmetic change, but also the start of something bigger that we initiated 10 years ago, and a message of hope to all: Never take anything for granted, always question yourself.
We hope you will get used to it quickly, and that new habits will replace old ones - slowly but surely.
At the same time, we are taking caring of our servers, databases, optimizations, and getting us up to date on all levels. So, thanks to all of you (you’re more than 10 million users now!), and let’s celebrate this new face for the years to come (and our beloved testers' team for their dedication and valuable feedback)
May the randomness of the dice be with you!
Sincerely,
The BGA team.
