When you changed the logo, I didn't care much, even though I thought it was ugly and unprofessionally designed.
When you changed the menu bar at the top of the page, I was mildly annoyed by the extra clicks needed to get to your current active tables by having to click the avatar to open a menu, rather than just clicking on the table icon in the menu bar.
When you changed ELO
https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33785
I was very annoyed, especially by the hubristic official responses that a quick kluge adjustment to ELO calculations would work better to address imbalances than a system carefully calibrated by a mathematician to balance all these concerns and more. Also, the gentle chastising that "we shouldn't care so much about ELO" and that this is a friendly site. I nearly quit them because of the complete lack of perspective about what purpose ELO serves and how important it is to have it be accurate. But ultimately I decided a broken ELO doesn't break the site, so I stayed (the ELO leakage continues though.
But now you have actually seriously broken a major component of the site for me. I cannot get any of the main information I need on the tournament page.
In swiss tournaments, your changes originally showed no rankings. Then you put in a table, but it's useless. I see there are players above and below me, but I no longer see if they have finished the current round or are still playing. So I can't tell if someone could still jump ahead of me this round or not.
You also cannot see the tiebreakers in the rankings.
In single elimination tournaments, the tournament state is a useless up/down and side/side scroll that gives you no perspective. Seriously, what information does an image like this convey?
https://imgur.com/a/dNShXdT
You can't see where that match came from without clicking clicking clicking. You can't tell what round it is. Nothing. To have an "overview" in a literal sense, you have to have a view OVER the object. And this is too zoomed in to be useful.
The "Announcement" box does not indicate in any way that there are multiple messages. So players will miss any new discussion that is happening, for example when the organizer posts the next tournament to join.
This is not more friendly for desktop and it's not friendly to mobile either.
The *only* positive change I see is that now you can easily find a tournament organizer's other tournaments.
The fact that you beta tested this new tournament page with several users and they raised precisely these issues and they were ignored before release, that's just incredible. Do you even care about hearing the user experience?
I'm done supporting this site. Done submitting bug reports which never get looked at and then get closed automatically despite dozens of thumbs. I've been here for over 5 years, but last two years have been a steady decline, so enough.
