If someone is rude you should report them. BGA takes insults in chat seriously.AngledLuffa wrote: ↑23 July 2024, 05:27 I have never met a single person in an Arena hearts game who I actually wanted to talk to. Everyone either plays silently or starts rude chats for no reason. It'd be a much more pleasant experience to just never talk to anyone around the table.
To answer the question in the title of your post, there is a third-party browser extensions that can do this, but there is no functionality built into BGA to do this.AngledLuffa wrote: ↑23 July 2024, 05:27 I have never met a single person in an Arena hearts game who I actually wanted to talk to. Everyone either plays silently or starts rude chats for no reason. It'd be a much more pleasant experience to just never talk to anyone around the table.
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Sure, that's something you should do after the game, but that's not a lot of help during the game while they're actively bothering you. Being able to leave chat or mute players is pretty basic functionality the site should have.RobertBr wrote: ↑23 July 2024, 07:34If someone is rude you should report them. BGA takes insults in chat seriously.AngledLuffa wrote: ↑23 July 2024, 05:27 I have never met a single person in an Arena hearts game who I actually wanted to talk to. Everyone either plays silently or starts rude chats for no reason. It'd be a much more pleasant experience to just never talk to anyone around the table.
During his Reddit AMA, founder Sourisdudesert said the chat function was created years ago in-house in a hack-a-thon like fashion. This was the reason given for why it lacks certain industry standard features.
The creation of the chat feature was not quite how I remembered it (always question things you "know" based on memory), but it was definitely not designed as a dedicated project. It was a side quest, so to speak, of a video game he was developing. Here is the actual quote from Sourisdudesert:Meeplelowda wrote: ↑23 July 2024, 20:43 During his Reddit AMA, founder Sourisdudesert said the chat function was created years ago in-house in a hack-a-thon like fashion. This was the reason given for why it lacks certain industry standard features.
By the way, it's now closer to 14 years since these were implemented given that the AMA was over two years ago.Actually I tried to create a video game myself, which was a browser based multiplayer strategy game (civilization game), with a lot of interactions between players (trade, wars...).
I loved the social tools that I did for this game, but in the same time I realized that my game was very unbalanced and not very good at all. I concluded that I was not a good game designer, removed my game from this platform, create a board game framework, develop 5 board games and ... you know the rest.
So yes, when you are using the BGA newsfeed, the chat or the BGA groups, you are using something that was created more than 12 years ago for a poor browser based game that do not exists anymore
