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Get rid of (or move) that blasted red error bar that comes up CONSTANTLY and blocks most of the play buttons. Not only is it useless and annoying, it blocks play by covering many buttons at the top of the screen. It often comes up by NO FAULT of your own, and it stays on TOO long!!! Please get rid of the red error bar!

You can close it yourself; it's often quicker than waiting for it to go away. If there are multiple at once, close the top one(s) first.

If a game is glitching out that badly though, is it even worth bothering to play it?

https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=102829

I only found this bug report, but there should be more of it

I'm not totally sure by what you mean by "more of it" - if you mean more info, feel free to add it. If you mean more votes, then posting here is a good start to that. If you mean more bugs, why?

The red bar can be closed manually by clicking the large black "X" on the right edge of the bar, right? That's what I do. Or maybe it is a large white "X". Either way, there is an "X" I can click.

nik592 wrote: ↑06 July 2025, 15:21 I'm not totally sure by what you mean by "more of it" - if you mean more info, feel free to add it. If you mean more votes, then posting here is a good start to that. If you mean more bugs, why?

I mean more bug report, as the multiple error bars are also an problem

One bar vs. multiple bars is likely the same issue - if the error bar was moved/changed/removed, then multiple bars would also be moved/changed/removed. More bug reports in that kind of case are just noise. Noise in bug tracking is bad - it makes it really hard to see what the real issues are. So in short, don't raise more bugs if your problem is essentially the same as an existing bug report - as I said, vote for it, encourage others to do the same, add more info if you have it.

there are more bug reports already.

> Noise in bug tracking is bad.

Noise is mainly created by the way how bga is tracking bugs and not having the possibility for testing by users. This keeps quality of the bug reports low, and for the readers it is also not really good to see how good a bug report is. It is not possible to only search in titles, it is not possible to filter out bugs for BGA website etc. Shitty bug tracking means shitty bug finding means too much bug report, so what you describe is just a small part of a big problem

See also bug reports with hundreds of votes, not getting dealt with. (Like https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=14407 https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=29258 )

I also wish we could DOWNVOTE reports instead of only upvote them. I've seen nonsense bug reports that have a dozen votes.

Mark as duplicate is also not possible