Board Game Arena

Hi, I have a suggestion for the site. In the list where we can join turn-based or real-time games, it would be nice if it only showed games that we had the option of joining. Lately, the turn-based games list is often 80% games that I'm ineligible for. This can be either because of restrictions to level (e.g., "average players or below"), or because the list is limited just to the table host's friends, or because the table was set up and invites were sent to specific players and it's full. Either way, it seems like there's no point in clogging up the list with a bunch of games that I can't even join.

If there's some reason to still show those games in the list, they could either 1) be shown in the "Other games" section at the bottom of the page that shows games that you haven't selected as "Games I want to play right now" or 2) it could be a checkbox toggle at the top of the page. Check the box to only show games you are eligible to join, or whatever.

Great idea, SRoT.

I've only started playing here recently, but if there was one thing to change asap, it's definitely this. I would prefer the check-box toggle option, so we can filter to only games we're eligible to join.

From the Suggestion thread on the topic:

This is such a basic concept I couldn't believe there was no way to hide games I have no way of joining.
In fact, I found it so frustrating, that I spent my night fixing it.

I came up with solution that hides all of the frustratingly useless games:
https://gist.github.com/GMc14/02058273a61fc0b64e02

Note: I am not a javascript developer, so I welcome improvement suggestions.

You just need a plugin or some other way of calling js functions on the page.
(Personally, I'm using "Custom JavaScript for websites" for Chrome)

Wow, I hadn't seen this. Thanks for the link. I'll have to try it out soon!

Yea, this would greatly save time from scrolling through lots of games that I can't join