Board Game Arena

Silene wrote: ↑24 November 2021, 12:25 But i won't miss game start for sure .

Before I noticed the problem I missed the game start. I was waiting for everyone to accept the game. The game had already started unnoticed. Result: irritated opponents and a penalty.

LoesElska wrote: ↑24 November 2021, 15:02

Silene wrote: ↑24 November 2021, 12:25 But i won't miss game start for sure .

Before I noticed the problem I missed the game start. I was waiting for everyone to accept the game. The game had already started unnoticed. Result: irritated opponents and a penalty.

Yeah but that happens just once. Then you know on game-start screen you have to press F5 regularly.

Well, good to know that one can at least navigate back once the tab has been hijacked, and not actually lose what one was writing. It's happened to me again and I confirm that on chrome I did not lose what I was writing.

It remains infuriating. Personally I find it so intrusive as to be obnoxious. I do not want any site to interfere with whatever other tabs I have open. I cannot even understand why this is possible. I do not recall any other site behaving in this way. I enabled site notifications so that I do not miss the start of games; this tab-hijacking is thus completely unnecessary. But it seems there is no way to prevent it. It is annoying enough that I doubt I would renew my site membership when that next expires.

And it changes all BGA to the Accept screen but doesn't change them back after the game starts.
It would be better to stop doing that.

asd123321 wrote: ↑26 November 2021, 04:18 And it changes all BGA to the Accept screen but doesn't change them back after the game starts.
It would be better to stop doing that.

Wouldn't that solve the problem?

If not, I'd say you are not ready to start a life game immediadly and so you shouldn't join a realtime table at this time.

I want to upvote, if there's .
Link plz?

Here's the link to the bug report: https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=26880

I have found this hijacking incredibly annoying, because I keep a tab open for each tournament I'm in. When I start a new real-time game and it hangs on the Accept screen (which happens with some regularity), the result is that all those tabs have been hijacked and stuck on that Accept screen. I have to go back one by one on each table and hit the back button. Very annoying.

A similar issue and perhaps related (but it may not be):

When you get one of those banner achievements - like winning at a game for the first time - it also appears on all tabs. By itself that is simply mildly annoying, but what makes it worse is that, after closing it on the original tab, you can't then close it on the others (pressing the button does nothing).

The only way out is to refresh the page, but if you were in the middle of typing a forum post or bug report, you'll lose what you were typing. (Well, unless you "inspect" the banner and hide/destroy it in the developer tools - which I've done in the past to avoid losing stuff. But clearly the site shouldn't assume the user knows how to do this.)

+1 most annoying thing! , please give us an option, so the site handles it differently!

This continues to infuriate. I just find it extraordinarily obnoxious and intrusive, that any website would think any visitor should ever be taken away from the page they have opened in a new tab, for any reason. No other website I have ever used has behaved in this way, and obviously that is because it is an extremely poor user experience.

Sometimes, once you've had your tab hijacked, you can navigate back to the page you wanted to be on. Other times, you cannot.

And if you have multiple tabs open at the end of a game, then when you return to any tab, it will play end of game sounds. It will also have an end of game banner obscuring the view.

If your site behaves in a way that no other website does, there had better be some extraordinarily compelling reason for your choice. There is no such reason for this tab-hijacking.