Board Game Arena

I would like it if the "game abandoned" page was more informative. When I create a turn-based game for my friends, and not enough join in to start the table, it would be helpful to, at least, know which friends actually joined the table before it expired, so if I try again, I know which friends to invite again, and which slots I should invite different friends into without having to ask each of them.

Does that make sense?

Yes!
You mean that beside the "game abandoned" info the gamepage is shown (directly or link)
with all the slots and shows which people joined and which slots were stil available when time expired?
This would be very interesting not only for turn-based games with friends imo.

Also very interesting to help to get more info about this bug:
#6543: "Turn Based Game Cancelled Despite Meeting Number of Required Players"
https://nl.boardgamearena.com/#!bug?id=6543
It's when you open a turn-based game with min-max slots.
The game only starts when max slots are filled and not when min slots are filled.
Then you also get the "game abandoned" info that not enough players joined while actually the min slots were filled.
Just only getting this information, makes it very hard to recognize this bug.
So I'm not sure, but think the bug isn't solved yet.

Did you ever encountered this bug?

I think I have actually, but as you say, it's hard to know for sure because I don't have all the info.