Board Game Arena

Some games take a while to find opponents.
The 15 min timeout is a good idea, it prevents abandoned games hanging around too long.
But it is a bit annoying to have to wait for your game to expire then create a brand new one. Especially if you check it and it's got like 2 minutes to expire.

I wonder if two things could be added:
1. A button to extend the timeout to a maximum of say 10 minutes.
2. A sound indicating your game has expired.

Do those sound reasonable?

Actually this was a bug. The table should never have expired if there was online players at that table.

This has been fixed, so your table won't be shut down any more as long as you are online waiting for people to join.
If everyone around the table is offline, the table will be closed after 20 minutes to avoid cluttering the lobby.

For turn based games (for which it's normal not to wait online), the table will now stay open for 3 days waiting for enough players to start (instead of just one day).

Thanks for bringing our attention to this!