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This thread contains a summary of the releases to the BGA website. This is only a list of the user-facing changes; as you can imagine there is much more activity going on behind the scenes! Any larger changes will also be accompanied by a separate post where relevant discussion can occur.

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Release 16th November 2021 211116-1031
  • Friends: only add players as a friend once a friend request is sent and accepted. Read more here.
  • Tutorials: improve collection and display of statistics on the tutorial list page
  • Tutorials: display and promote the community's best tutorials so they may inspire other equally brilliant tutorials
  • Tutorials: fix tutorials displayed with "0 steps"
  • Tournaments: fix rare bug occurring on long Multiplayer Elimination tournaments
  • Preferences: fix display of yearly price (Preferences / Account)
  • Reviewer page: fix most/least recently updated sorting and add alphabetical order option
  • Reviewer page: add disclaimer to clarify that games in review are not guaranteed to complete the process and become published
  • Reviewers: automatically remove inactive reviewers after 3 months (this helps us have a better picture of the size of the reviewer community, you can always rejoin the group if you meet the criteria!)
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Release 23rd November 2021 211123-0935
  • Preferences: allow commas in city names (for US style state reference)
  • Now you can download a nice gift card when you buy a Premium code for someone else.
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Release 25th November 2021 211125-1022
  • Tutorials: fix changing status of tutorials
  • Improve browser compatibility
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Release 7th December 2021 211207-1000
  • Tutorials: fix saving of tutorial images served from some image sharing services
  • Tutorials: allow maintainers to change status of tutorials
  • Tutorials: send status change notifications to tutorial author
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Release 14th December 2021 211214-1000
  • Game page: check links and allow them only in the video category if they match one of the main video platforms
  • Game log: fix issue preventing player notifications history to be displayed in the logs for mobile on page load/refresh
  • Tutorials: improving first steps of making a tutorial to make it easier to understand, with more explanations and info
  • Tutorials: update buttons and warnings during tutorial creation to make tutorial creation/editing clearer and more efficient
  • Alpha process: remove possibility of launching games in normal mode instead of training mode by mistake using the automatic lobby
  • Gender replacements: fix issue with replacements occurring in player-to-player chat while playing a game
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Release 16th December 2021 211216-1501
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Release 20th December 2021 211220-1500
  • Matchmaking: also apply location restriction to premium users for Arena mode
  • Friends menu: remember collapsed categories
  • Tables icon: show a red circle whenever you have an ongoing real-time game, or when it's your turn in a turn-based game
  • Player menu: fix scrolling on mobile
  • Player menu: remove some hovering effects on touch devices
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Release 23rd December 2021 211223-1100
  • Background: restore previous darker background for games
  • Forum: update the background to match the background from the rest of the website
  • Profile: display tutorials written and games developed on player's profile
  • Tutorials: achievements for tutorial authors
  • Tutorials: explicit message when you try to publish a tutorial written by someone else
  • Tutorials: make tutorial creation tool fault tolerant with old game archives
  • Tutorials: warning on tutorials based on old replays
  • Groups: fix avatars on player groups and guru groups for recent games
  • Layout: fix positioning of logout dropdown in player panel
  • Layout: fix underline colour of "Premium subscriber" link in player panel
  • Guru groups: fix links to comments in guru groups from notifications tab
  • Performance: improve performance of tables tab and tables icon when you have many open tables
  • Tables: in tables tab of player menu, hide tables from which you've been eliminated
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Release 6th January 2022 220106-1001
  • Link to troubleshooting FAQ on "you are a spectator" to help players incorrectly logged as spectators
  • Friends: show players on the same network as "Online near you"
  • Friends: improve performance of player search in friends menu
  • Forum: close the player panel if clicking in the forum
  • Tables: show red icon if a turn-based table starts on your turn
  • Tables icon: improve performance
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