Board Game Arena

One thing that I really think would make my BGA experience much better is if the chat window I have opened with one of my friends would not disappear when I enter a game. Also, when I am in a game and a friend contacts me, I have to open a new tab in order to speak with them and switch in-between browser tabs to play and speak at the same time. I think it would be much more comfortable if a chat window would just pop on the screen and the players would have the option to minimize and maximize it as they want.

there is an option to detach a chat box .. i have done it a few times accidentally.

Yeah, the chat has had issues ever since they took it out of the game log area. I understand how the game log was an interference with it, but I think there were better solutions.

Yes, you can separate it, but it's not obvious. You have to notice there's two symbols on it and take a chance on what they mean, and find it by accident. But it opens kinda skinny (though you can change it), and if you're doing turn-based and have anything in the Notes, it will pop on top of your chat, for no logical reason on earth that I can find.

And it's rather annoying that the last portion of the chat pops up when you enter a turn on a turn-based game, even if nothing new is on it. I think that's one reason people seem to often miss when something new is there.

Really, I think the chat is kind of a mess.