Board Game Arena

https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=221660

This has been broken for more than a day now.

edit title now that i know multiple games are affected

You might have better traction posting this in the game's forum rather than this forum, which is dedicated to site suggestions. That forum even includes a link to submitting a formal ticket that the game's developer can see and respond to, rather than hoping he'll just stumble through the forums upon your post by luck.

Hope that helps point you in the right direction!

Kayvon wrote: ↑21 May 2026, 14:36 You might have better traction posting this in the game's forum rather than this forum, which is dedicated to site suggestions. That forum even includes a link to submitting a formal ticket that the game's developer can see and respond to, rather than hoping he'll just stumble through the forums upon your post by luck.

Hope that helps point you in the right direction!

Hi, it looks like you're referencing the game's forum. It may be helpful to provide the user with a convenient link like this: https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=678

However, if you provided a link like that, you might notice there is already a thread with several replies confirming it and a link to one of many bug reports on this: https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49325

I can understand why the user also came here, because Gizmos has been broken for everyone on certain mobile devices for a day or two, and people have been making bug reports about it. Because the user brought extra attention to this extreme situation in the general forum, the issue was noticed, and BGA staff are aware so that the BGA framework regression can be addressed.

Hope that helps you understand the history of this problem!

GTSchemer wrote: ↑21 May 2026, 15:26 Hope that helps you understand the history of this problem!

More than a little snarky, but absolutely helpful. Thanks for explaining! While I don't agree that a site-wide post should be necessary, I definitely see how it escalated to this point. Thanks.

Kayvon wrote: ↑21 May 2026, 15:37

GTSchemer wrote: ↑21 May 2026, 15:26 Hope that helps you understand the history of this problem!

More than a little snarky, but absolutely helpful. Thanks for explaining! While I don't agree that a site-wide post should be necessary, I definitely see how it escalated to this point. Thanks.

Please pardon the tongue in cheek post. What really interests me as a developer is whether this affects the same mobile devices (e.g. iPhone 14) on other games, since I also saw recent (iPhone?) mobile reports about Reversi and Ark Nova. That gets a bit off topic though. Interestingly, those relate to zoom instead of outright not loading.

I am hopeful staff can correct the root cause.

Fingers crossed. I saw the Reversi post, too, but hadn't connected that it could be site-wide. Good observation.

Kayvon wrote: ↑21 May 2026, 15:44 Fingers crossed. I saw the Reversi post, too, but hadn't connected that it could be site-wide. Good observation.

I took a quick look. Games I found via reports, that cannot load at all with iPhone (e.g. 14) or Android:

Boomerang: USA
Boomerang: Europe
Gizmos
Room 25
Space Empires: 4X

I saw reports about Texas Hold'em Poker, but I could load those tables. Ark Nova, Reversi, Spite and Malice might have zoom-related issues on physical devices, but I did not reproduce this in Firefox simulation.

That makes sense. I think we had a zoom related issue on one of our games recently, too.

Kayvon wrote: ↑21 May 2026, 15:37While I don't agree that a site-wide post should be necessary, I definitely see how it escalated to this point.

I sincerely hope posting game-related bugs in the general Discussions doesn't become the norm. In this case, whatever it is is affecting multiple games, but that usually isn't the case.

My rule is that if I try posting the "right" way and it goes nowhere, then I try to escalate. A "game crashing" bug is different and more serious than "a rule is implemented wrong" type of bug, especially when it worked fine until recently.

It looks like they haven't started working on it yet. The bug report still says "Open - Bug has not been reproduced by developers yet". It should be easy to reproduce given the multiple reports.