Board Game Arena

When we are searching for players, any matches from within our friends list should come up first.

Honestly, it feels a bit weird to be able to invite strangers to games or to tournaments.

But if we are friends, then surely it's likely that they are more important to me than another person with a vaguely similar name.

I believe that when I type in 'xxx' then my friend 'xxxLovelyPerson' should come up before 'xxx1' or 'xxx' or 'xxxarg', even though under the current (purely alphabetically sorted) sytem, all of those non-friends would come up first.

(Names are hypothetical.)

To invite a friend to my table, I use the "Invite a friend" button, just below the table. It shows only my friends in the list, with a dedicated search bar to filter them.

I’m using BGA on a computer, I don’t know if this button exists on phone.