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Game log scrolling independently of game board

Posted: 11 May 2022, 18:39
by SteveFromBristol
Hi and thank you for a great website!

My suggestion is to put the game log column on the right in a separate frame from the rest of the screen, to make it possible to scroll down the entire log while looking at the full board.

I play mostly turn-based games and I find it very useful to go over my opponents' moves. Using the log is a much faster way than replaying moves, and allows to go over them at one's own pace. However, when the log is very long, it gets impossible to browse through all the past moves while checking out the board in its final configuration, because the whole screen scrolls down.

I think this would be useful for several games (for sure at least some of the few I've played), therefore it would be a nice change for the general interface that gets applied to all games in BGA.

I'm not sure how complicated of a change it would be in terms of code, but I put the suggestion out there to see if others think that it's a good idea.

Thanks!

Re: Game log scrolling independently of game board

Posted: 12 May 2022, 00:03
by cigma
The right place for suggestions is here https://boardgamearena.com/bugs When you fill in a suggestion report, others can vote for it there. The more votes it gets, the more likely it is realised (according to the information BGA gives).

Re: Game log scrolling independently of game board

Posted: 13 May 2022, 11:02
by SteveFromBristol
Thank you cigma!

I knew about the section for posting reports to be voted, just thought I would first write here to see if anybody else shared the same frustration or had any ideas to improve the suggestion, before filling in a report with limited visibility :-)

Anyway, now there is a report here https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=64517, so please run and vote for it, if you like the suggestion!