Ishvara wrote: ↑20 February 2024, 04:59
The Game status especially the view all current table page is a hot mess of unreadable eye cancer. Information and colour overload everywhere.
The eyes do not know where to look and I end up feeling like I gained no information from looking at the screen. In fact, the update screen makes me not want to check for updates ever.
Indeed, it really affects those of us who are sensitive to a flood of visual noise. Unfortunately, I have thus far not heard an indication that our segment of the population are being considered with the changes.
Likewise, those of us with older mobile devices can have huge lag opening the menu, with no alternative available.
A similar example is the longstanding issue with a ton of votes to hide player status from the game log. It actively makes me want to NOT ADD FRIENDS which seems the opposite of what BGA would want, and yet if I add friends, I constantly have every log in every game spammed with online, offline, online, offline.
At its simplest, it's a 2-3 line CSS change to hide this, so I have to believe it's intentional that it's kept, or there are reasons it's kept that have not been shared.
RicardoRix wrote: ↑20 February 2024, 13:49Before rolling out a new feature, can you test it out on a group of willing testers. It would seem that the majority of people here do not want to be the guinea pigs.
Before the new game page lobby system was implemented, it was privately tested by a group of testers who identified problems. The page was then pushed to public despite the problems the testers identified.
Before the new game status menu and game status page were introduced, they were privately tested by the new BGA lab system. The pages were then pushed to public despite the problems the testers identified.
I am passionate about efficient, accessible user experience coming first, and I love BGA, so it breaks my heart to see this pattern continue.