5 days ago, we published a new lobby for Board Game Arena. Thanks to your feedback, more than 10 updates have been made since then, with many improvements compared to the initial version.
If you didn't read the first news, we recommend you to read it before this one.
We received A LOT of feedback on the new lobby. Board Game Arena is now a huge website, with a much larger audience than before, and it is REALLY hard to satisfy everyone. So we've not been surprised by the volume of the feedback. And of course as it was new, many of you have been at first disoriented by the new interface. As a consequence you played less on BGA during the 2 first days (-5% to -10%).
But the good news is: we made it! Thanks to your patience, your feedback and our updates, the number of players, tables, games played, waiting time is now back to normal. Yesterday, 21.290 games have been played on BGA, which is a very common number for a Monday. Some others statistics are encouraging:
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The average waiting time before starting a game has dropped by 3%.
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The % of tables that did not find enough opponents to start has dropped by 1.5 point (39,42% now, 40,96% before).
Of course, it is particularly hard to have such a big bang without disturbing you. We worked hard these latest days, to analyse your feedback, to publish updates, and to make sure that everyone of you is comfortable with the new lobby.
So if you have been disoriented by the new lobby in the past few days, here are the main things we did for you:
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At first, NO FEATURES have been removed from BGA. Everything that was possible with the old lobby is possible with the new one.
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In particular, we re-introduced the "available players for this game" and the associated "suggest table to player" feature. This feature was not initially planned for the new lobby, but a lot of you requested it and it is back now.
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For those who are playing a lot of different games here, we added a "See all available tables", which provides a list of tables for all games in a single view. This view is exactly the same than in the previous lobby, so you shouldn't be disoriented.
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If you have many games in your favourites, you can use the top-right "Display options" menu to make the game icons smaller.
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Today, we introduced a tutorial for the lobby, to explain all its features.
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(and many, many small things 🙂 )
If you are really nostalgic from the old lobby, you can do the following:
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Click on "Display options" and select "Small icons"
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Click on "See all available tables" to display tables like in the old lobby.
Once you have done this, your preferences are saved (for this browser), and the interface is really really close to how it was in the old lobby.
Once you get used to it, you can benefit from the cool new features of this lobby:
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Tables grouped by games: you see immediately if a table of game X is available, and you see all the available tables for game X at the same place.
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Join from the lobby + join multiple real-time tables.
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Your ELO rank + stats for each game is now directly visible in the lobby.
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If you didn't already, we recommend you to test the Automatic mode, which is very powerful and very easy to access now.
This is of course not the end of the story. We still have many things to fix and to upgrade to make this lobby better, and we will continue to push updates in the next days/weeks.
To conclude, I'd like to thank the whole BGA community for your patience and your feedback. Unfortunately, we had a lot of - quite - aggressive feedbacks and comments these past few days, so I'd like to give a special thank you to those of you who took the time to really test the new lobby before giving a feedback, and who explained their situation (and frustrations) in detail instead of just posting a basic "this is awful / I prefer the old one / you are stupid" comment. The feedback from these players has been really helpful to identify what needed to be done, so thanks again.
Nova actualización do lobby (17 de setembro)
Hai 5 días publicamos un novo lobby para Board Game Arena.
Grazas ao seu feedback, desde entón fixéronse máis de 10 actualizacións, con moitas melloras en comparación coa versión inicial.
Se non lía a primeira noticia, recomendámosche que a leas antes desta.
Recibimos moitos comentarios sobre o novo vestíbulo.
Board Game Arena é agora un sitio web enorme, cun público moito maior que antes, e é difícil satisfacer a todos.
Entón, non nos sorprendeu o volume de comentarios.
E, por suposto, como era novo, moitos de vós estiveches desorientados ao principio pola nova interface.
Como consecuencia, xogou menos en BGA durante os dous primeiros días (-5% a -10%).
Pero a boa nova é: a fixemos!
Grazas á túa paciencia, aos teus comentarios e ás nosas actualizacións, o número de xogadores, mesas, xogos xogados, o tempo de espera volve á normalidade.
Onte xogáronse 21.290 partidos en BGA, que é un número moi común para un luns.
Algunhas outras estatísticas son alentadoras:
- O tempo medio de espera antes de comezar un xogo caeu un 3%.
- O% de táboas que non atoparon opositores suficientes para comezar baixou un 1,5 puntos (o 39,42% agora, o 40,96% antes).
Entón , se nos desorientou o novo vestíbulo nos últimos días, aquí tes as principais cousas que fixemos por vostede:
- Nun principio, NINGÚN CARACTERÍSTICAS foron eliminadas da BGA. Todo o posible co antigo vestíbulo é posible co novo.
- En particular, introducimos de novo os " xogadores dispoñibles para este xogo " e a función " suxerir táboa ao xogador " asociada. Esta función non estaba prevista inicialmente para o novo vestíbulo, pero moitos de ti solicitárono e xa está de volta.
- Para aqueles que xogan moitos xogos diferentes aquí, engadimos un " Ver todas as táboas dispoñibles ", que ofrece unha lista de táboas para todos os xogos nunha soa vista. Esta vista é exactamente a mesma que no vestíbulo anterior, polo que non deberías estar desorientado.
- Se tes moitos xogos nos teus favoritos, podes usar o menú superior "Opcións de visualización" que se fai máis pequeno.
- Hoxe, introducimos un tutorial para o vestíbulo, para explicar todas as súas características.
- (e moitas, moitas cousas pequenas )
Se es realmente nostálxico do antigo vestíbulo, podes facer o seguinte:
- Fai clic en "Opcións de visualización" e selecciona "pequenas iconas"
- Fai clic en "Ver todas as táboas dispoñibles" para mostrar as táboas como no antigo vestíbulo.
Unha vez que te acostumas, podes beneficiarte das novas características deste vestíbulo:
- Táboas agrupadas por xogos: verás de inmediato se está dispoñible unha táboa do xogo X e verás no mesmo lugar todas as táboas dispoñibles para o xogo X.
- Únete desde o vestíbulo + únete a varias mesas en tempo real.
- O seu ranking + estatísticas ELO para cada partido agora é directamente visible no vestíbulo.
- Se aínda non o fixeches, recomendámosche probar o modo Automático, que é moi potente e de fácil acceso agora.
Este é, naturalmente, o final da historia. Aínda temos moitas cousas por solucionar e actualizar para mellorar este lobby e seguiremos impulsando actualizacións nos próximos días / semanas.
Para finalizar, quero agradecer a toda a comunidade BGA a vosa paciencia e os vosos comentarios. Por desgraza, tivemos moitos comentarios e comentarios agresivos nestes últimos días, así que quero darlle un agradecemento especial a aqueles que tomaron o tempo para probar o novo vestíbulo antes de dar comentarios e. quen explicou detalladamente a súa situación (e as súas frustracións) en lugar de publicar un comentario básico "isto é horrible / eu prefiro o antigo / vostede é parvo". O feedback destes xogadores foi de grande axuda para identificar o que había que facer, así que grazas de novo.