Board Game Arena

Hi I’d like to give what I think it is a very good suggestion.
I dont know if here is the right place.

Could you see how Darwin’s Journey’s replay mechanism is better than the other games on bga? We can navigate faster trough the whole game, to the point we want to look at.
This principle could be the new pattern for future games: going faster to the point we want “during a”/“in the post” game.

Much has already been mentioned, but I would like to add a few things.
- This tournament page should be directly accessible from the homepage, where “News” and “Play Now” can also be found. It is always very tedious to click there manually. Perhaps for the arena mode, it could also be possible to see the current status of the respective games or tournaments there.
- I basically miss a filter to search for the length of turn-based games. I prefer games where you have a little more time. Until now, you have to scroll through all the tournaments.
- The copy function for creating tournaments is definitely a nice feature. I recently created 45 tournaments, so I could have used it

Thank you for your work.

Please return ability to see tie-break stats!

Diger74 wrote: ↑19 February 2026, 21:34 This 'mobile friendly' was clearly implemented by the person who has no experience nor interest playing tournaments. Terrible UI!

- no number of games played
- no tiebraker
- scrolls all over the place that lose context
- you need to scroll hours to see the table

Do you really think fast players are interested to see the tournament config for already running tournament? And not to view where they are on the rank? Really?

I second ALL of the points mentioned above.

Moreover, as many users pointed out, why focus on this unnecessary change while there are already so many requests/suggestions?

Todi Liju wrote: ↑20 February 2026, 07:47

Diger74 wrote: ↑19 February 2026, 21:34 This 'mobile friendly' was clearly implemented by the person who has no experience nor interest playing tournaments. Terrible UI!

- no number of games played
- no tiebraker
- scrolls all over the place that lose context
- you need to scroll hours to see the table

Do you really think fast players are interested to see the tournament config for already running tournament? And not to view where they are on the rank? Really?

I second ALL of the points mentioned above.

Moreover, as many users pointed out, why focus on this unnecessary change while there are already so many requests/suggestions?

Same

I dont like it. Its a piece of... Why do You change something was was working good?

So I literally cannot access this website from my phone anymore. Starting as of this update. It just goes into a continuos load screen. Cant log out or in. Nothing. So what did you guys do to make it more phone friendly? Because it seems like someone miscoded something to crash it.

对我来说，这次更新最大的影响是再也不知道从哪里可以看到详尽的小分界面。没有“返回旧页面”的切换按钮让我看到的比起开发者的“勇气”，更多的是一种傲慢的态度——就像是“为了我自己坚信的正确，我不会给你们选择的机会”。

The few positives of the new page are outweighed by the many negatives...

I like the new visualization of the tournament settings, ruleset used (same look as arena now), the status bar helping you keep track of amount of games in progress, the ability to move between tournaments of the creator (very handy if you wanna move quickly between your own tournaments).

However certain actions on creation can be cumbersome as you do need to click every block without any defaulting (previously only type of bracket was a mandatory click), shifting between amount of players can be wonky (the button moved on my screen a couple times), you can't invite people (important for those who want friends under 100 ELO in their tournament). Your start time is defaulted to system time, it used to be 21:00 (due to noticing this late i've got a tournament starting at 23:42 - it's not the end of the world but weird).
I've actually had a bug where the screen gave me an error because my table size was 2 and my minimum amount of players on table was 3. I toggled players from 4 to 2, as soon as you hit 2 the minimum input field disappears with its existing value, but apparently the publish takes it into account.

The scoreboard is horrible. You can't view the tiebreakers and you can't see the ranking of players (which is quite important if you're creating 50+ player swiss tournaments). Scrolling through the list is only possible using the arrow buttons or by dragging the list if you finally succeed getting a hand shaped cursor (in the old version you could at least scroll with your mouse scroller if you hovered over the scoreboard).

Enshitification is real. Really hope BGA didnt pay much for this UI, because it is borderline unusable for anybody who actually likes playing tournaments.

Absolutely obvious that the person/people who developed this dont play tournaments themselves or gathered feedback from those who do. This kind of work would get me fired from my job. Absolutely terrible.

Im currently playing in a swiss tournament and I cant even see who is in the lead? The rankings arent even sorted by points, I have to make my own ranking. Tiebreakers just dissapeared. Have to scroll forever to see other participants. And that's just the start of the things that are just wrong. Man this update sucks ass.