Board Game Arena

Hi everybody,

i'm not sure if this problem has already been mentioned :

When one of my tables is finished i like to look at the final situation ...
Everytime i do so, the final situation is shown for some seconds and then replaced by the results-screen. I have then to select a second time the "final situation"-screen.

it seems to me that this behaviour is new ??

@BGA : Can we please decide ourselves which screen we want to see ??

Started a few months ago, and I hate it too. Ditto when going back into a game to see the results. You are looking at the game and it gets yanked away. It's like the d--- popups on many websites.

Upvote the suggestion to fix it please:
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=239905

I was hoping someone would make a post about it, before I have to do it myself and others start criticizing me as usual...

I agree that it's a terrible change. Before it was implemented (if this is even an intentional implementation), the final stage screen would remain after the replay is over, letting you contemplate the finished state for as long as you wished.

Now, it goes to the score screen after a weird 3-4 seconds delay, which is very useless and disrupting. You already know the score when you click on the replay. If you want to see it again, you can just scroll up and see it displayed inside the game (as most games will have their own way of displaying the tallies of the results).

No one goes to the score screen unless they want to look at Elos or things like that. There was zero reason to make this change.

tbhp wrote: ↑20 October 2026, 19:56 There was zero reason to make this change.

Yet again. So many times in the past few years.

Which brings us back to the discussion in the recently upped post about bug reports... When people ask for obvious bugs to get fixed, like someone being literally unable to play games on their account, people are like "but that's volunteer work, they have no time for that". Meanwhile, they are apparently paying people to spend their time on coming up with the weirdest changes imaginable that no one asked for.

This makes the defenses of how the site runs things lose all credibility. If it looked like they were struggling to put in any amount of work, they would make sense. But that's not the case, as they are clearly spending time and resources working on certain things. Just not the right ones. It's like they are regularly having brainstorming sessions where they themselves decide what we should want, instead of listening to what we want.

This seems unlikely to be an intentional change. I'm guessing it was an unintended result of other changes. I expect it will be rolled back.

Yeah, that's also why I waited, see if they would do something about it. But it's been months at this point.

Sometimes it feels like the people who work for the site don't actually play games on here themselves. Like, when they made the overhaul to the interface of tournaments, anyone who plays tournaments would have noted that there were glaring issues. But they needed the players to inform them.

tbhp wrote: ↑21 October 2026, 05:57 Yeah, that's also why I waited, see if they would do something about it. But it's been months at this point.

Sometimes it feels like the people who work for the site don't actually play games on here themselves. Like, when they made the overhaul to the interface of tournaments, anyone who plays tournaments would have noted that there were glaring issues. But they needed the players to inform them.

And the results panel is still awful with the excess whitespace, button based scrolling, horizontal scrolling, and probably something else I am forgetting.

Yeah, the way the results were displayed was much better before.

Now I don't even look at it for very long. It's essentially stopped being a thing that I'll enjoy and admire, like the trophies page and things like that, because it's just not visually appealing.

The whole tournament interface has a very functional look now. It's not a place of the site I'll dwell on, unless I literally need to use it.