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Rethink the interface

Posted: 15 August 2021, 09:22
by Proclivitas
So, for the "long list of all the lobbies" for realtime - you know, the oldschool one, which you can now only access at the bottom of the "simple game" - "real time" - "manual":

Suggestions:

1. The newly created lobbies should be placed at the BOTTOM of the list. That will make it a lot less "jumpy" when people are constantly starting/stopping lobbies. Right now, it's really bad, because every time a new lobby is created or a game started or quit, the entire list shifts up and down, so scrolling through it is not feasible. The new lobbies should be added to the BOTTOM. That way, the "noise" of fast games with lots of starts/created lobbies/abandoned lobbies (like race for the galaxy) will be at the bottom, and slower to get going games, like larger euros, will be sorted on top, and more visible.

2. Make it more easy to parse. The "boxed" interface is way too big to scroll through when you have like 50 games added to your favorites. Either make that WAY more compressed and compact somehow, or allow easier access to the "long list of lobbies" so that it's not at the bottom of the boxed list. I would suggest something like a very "thin" and simple alphabetically sorted text table list of games, without any pictures, or with just very small icons on the left, and with a number of lobbies for each game, with a [+] on the left where you can expand a game that you're interested in after scrolling through the list which only displays the name, and number of lobbies. This is similar to the way it is now, but scrolling through all those huge boxes with pictures in them is extremely cumbersome.

Re: Rethink the interface

Posted: 15 August 2021, 22:58
by Proclivitas
Update:

I played around with the settings on the right, and "Small Icons" are what I kind of want, but they need to be vertically sorted (like one per line in a large table) and have text with the game name. Icons only in a large grid is a bit weird. But if you add the game text and make them in a table, "small icons" or "tiny icons" with text would be what I'm sort of asking for.