Board Game Arena

NO. Just no. My brain hurts please give me the option to turn it back. As a neurodiverse person the new games in progress page is overwhelming visually and confusing.

How do I revert? This is very hard to read.

tarkalak wrote: ↑07 February 2024, 10:17 How do I revert? This is very hard to read.

Sadly I don't think you can. I've been trying believe me.

Leoishere wrote: ↑07 February 2024, 09:50 NO. Just no. My brain hurts please give me the option to turn it back. As a neurodiverse person the new games in progress page is overwhelming visually and confusing.

Likewise. I recoiled when I saw it and it's pretty much made me ill this morning. Don't people understand the impact this has on users? There's an efficiency side to the old version vs this one that IMO anyone ought to find useful (the old one was better), but I am also in the camp where I get overwhelmed with too much on the screen, and this is just overload, with no way to cull the icons.

I regularly have 20+ turnbased games going. I used to be able to see about that number on one page without scrolling, and even when hitting 50 games in progress the page wasn't hard to parse. Now I can see a grand total of 6 games, or 8 if I use 80% zoom, and that's after hiding things as best as the options let me, and with it set to "small display". LOL who is testing this stuff?

This new version is awful to read. It makes me despair, yet again, of the decision making at BGA. Just like with ELO this feedback will get duly ignored and they will keep pushing out these unpopular lobby and format changes. I already stopped subscribing. I don't know what protest is left other than to leave the site altogether.

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?

Personally, I prefer the new page. Something I thought the old page needed was grouping by game but a change no one do. Sorting by game name is near enough.

warmachineuk wrote: ↑07 February 2024, 11:50 Personally, I prefer the new page. Something I thought the old page needed was grouping by game but a change no one do. Sorting by game name is near enough.

That functionality could (presumably) have been added to the old version without the rehash and clutter that has come with it, and loss of useful information like player experience etc that has happened too.

If I click the "waiting for you" button it unhides the top banner. What's the point of that?

There aren't a lot of positive feedback, but i think it's a great change and more easy to read all infos about our games. I'm on computer.

titi-togepi wrote: ↑07 February 2024, 12:51 There aren't a lot of positive feedback, but i think it's a great change and more easy to read all infos about our games. I'm on computer.

In what way does it make it easier to find your game information? Do you mean stuff is more spaced out than before? That might be true but I can no longer see the player experiences for example so I find this version to provide less information.

KenFin1 wrote: ↑07 February 2024, 12:53

titi-togepi wrote: ↑07 February 2024, 12:51 There aren't a lot of positive feedback, but i think it's a great change and more easy to read all infos about our games. I'm on computer.

In what way does it make it easier to find your game information? Do you mean stuff is more spaced out than before? That might be true but I can no longer see the player experiences for example so I find this version to provide less information.

What do you mean by player experiences?

titi-togepi wrote: ↑07 February 2024, 13:24

KenFin1 wrote: ↑07 February 2024, 12:53

titi-togepi wrote: ↑07 February 2024, 12:51 There aren't a lot of positive feedback, but i think it's a great change and more easy to read all infos about our games. I'm on computer.

In what way does it make it easier to find your game information? Do you mean stuff is more spaced out than before? That might be true but I can no longer see the player experiences for example so I find this version to provide less information.

What do you mean by player experiences?

Strong, Beginner etc. See the format in the old lobby which you can still view here https://boardgamearena.com/lobby. They appear below the player names (during table creation). Format was the same in the tables in progress page. Not anymore with this new design.