New lobby update (Sept 17th)

[jotaeme51]

Una excelente mejora, no se pierden las opciones que habían y se añaden nuevas facilidades. Gracias.

[farfyy]

Unfortunately it is still not an improvement as it is more difficult ( more scrolling) to find available games. Please find my feedbacks

PRO:
I love the idea to show all available tables grouped by game title . Nice touch !

CON:

- But PLEASE remove from display all the games for which tables are not already open ( or add a filter). For now this is not lisible at all (too many games icons to look at). For us players the main functionality of the lobby is too find game EASILY . if i want to create a table i just have to go into the GAMES TAB, not too difficult)

- PLEASE STOP ADDING EACH GAME I PLAY AS FAVORITE ( i can click on the heart if i love it. no need to do it for me automatically)

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[ZanaFromMars]

Hi to the team of BGA!

First of all, thank you for this wonderfull site and all the work you put into it! Especially considering that it is free for most players, while you don't rely on adds, and that the premium account is so cheap. You are putting a lot of work into this project and I thank you for that, and so much more.

I was part of the people that disliked the new interface, although not enough to give you any kind of feedback on that point. I was really happy to see that what I disliked came back with updates : you are the best for that! I feel sorry about all the people that could have been awfull to you all, they just don't realize how much you give them already.

In a nutshell : love to the whole BGA team and keep on the good work

[senatorhung]

- PLEASE STOP ADDING EACH GAME I PLAY AS FAVORITE ( i can click on the heart if i love it. no need to do it for me automatically)

this would definitely incentivize me to dabble in the 'below the fold' games that i have tried before but am not willing to add to my favourites.

[do a little dance]

at first I think the new lobby is bad, after using 2hours to manage it now I think it is quite good

-I can start more than 1 table
-I can see available players
-I can see all available tables
-I can see games that I played (good for boosting first game victory)
-I can see available tables in a much more convenient way

but I face some problems

-after I start a game, I can't scroll down to view the lobby. I have to click the BGA logo to return to lobby and start another game, which is very annoying
-I suggest when we click the blue 'create the table button', a table will be started using player's default setting, without going to a new page. When we click into the table we finally enter a new page, and when we scroll down we can see the main lobby
-when a player join my table but refuse to start, all my other games are shut down
-there is a very annoying guideline teaching you how to use the table, and appear some 'encouragement' when you win your first game, etc. I suggest there is an option in settings to turn these off, if there isn't
_I cant reduce the size of suggested games, they remain big. I am not interested but they still exist

In general it is quite good mainly because I can start more than one table, though usually the more popular game start first but players can adjust themselves. Ty for developing all these, it's great!

[Josunae]

Thank you for your responsiveness about the lobby. You continue to do an amazing job with a great website.

I had a quick question: Where is the "see all tables" option. I have searched the table page and the options, but cant seem to find it.

Thanks again for all the work!!

[BaconPotatoSalad]

Nice job on simplifying. less clicks but concerned about the manual play takes as long to find proper player. Thanks for having this site.

[RicardoRix]

There was a rumour of a 'no icons' display...?

Given I use the 'all available' tables option, the 107 game icons at the top are of little use to me now because I can't start a game with them anymore. Just need the 'remove from favourites' ability every once in a while.

Also is if possible that cntrl-click on the create a table button could open the table in a new window?

[sleepyokan]

First of all, thank you for your hard work, the BGA team, to have the service up and running always!

However, I have a say on the new site desigh...

You say:
> The average waiting time before starting a game has dropped by 3%.
> The % of tables that did not find enough opponents to start has dropped by 1.5 point (39,42% now, 40,96% before).

Yes, that is great! But the total number of the games I have played since the site update has dropped like -50%. It is mainly because the new design does not allow me to cross-check other tables across different titles. With the previous design, it was much easier to find another title's table while the title I want to play is taking time to get enough players. For example, I want to play 7 Wonders but I don't find enough people or a good table, but there is a table of 6 nimmt! that is about to start, so I can jump in to it instead of waiting for 7 Wonders to start. I am quite flexible with games to play as I am here to casually enjoy board games with people from around the world whenever I get 10-15 minutes to spare. To me, it is just so inconvenient to find a table of just any of my fav games right away...

[farfyy]

Let us Filter non open tables icons from display (for instance sort by availability) !!!

Move game suggestions at the bottom ( this section annoy me especially when nobodies plays the games you suggest)
It is a lobby not a recommendation system !

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