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 posodobitev preddverja (17. septembra)
Pred 5 dnevi smo objavili nov lobi za Board Game Arena.
Zahvaljujoč vašim povratnim informacijam je bilo od takrat opravljenih več kot 10 posodobitev, kar je veliko izboljšav v primerjavi s prvotno različico.
Če niste prebrali prve novice, priporočamo, da jo preberete pred to.
Prejeli smo veliko povratnih informacij o novi avli.
Board Game Arena je zdaj ogromna spletna stran z veliko večjo publiko kot prej in res je težko zadovoljiti vse.
Obseg povratnih informacij nas torej ni presenetil.
In seveda, ker je bilo novo, ste mnogi od vas že na začetku dezorijentirali nov vmesnik.
Posledično ste v prvih dveh dneh igrali manj na BGA (-5% do -10%).
Dobra novica pa je: uspeli smo!
Zahvaljujoč vašemu potrpljenju, vašim povratnim informacijam in našim posodobitvam, številom igralcev, miz, odigranih iger, čakalna doba se je vrnila v normalno stanje.
Včeraj je bilo na BGA odigranih 21.290 iger, kar je za ponedeljek zelo pogosta številka.
Nekatere druge statistike so spodbudne:
- Povprečna čakalna doba pred začetkom igre se je zmanjšala za 3%.
- % Tabel, ki niso našli dovolj nasprotnikov za začetek, je padel za 1,5 točke (39,42%, 40,96% prej).
Če ste bili v zadnjih dneh dezorijentirani v novi avli, so tukaj glavne stvari, ki smo jih storili za vas:
- Sprva V BGA ni bilo odstranjenih nobenih značilnosti. Vse, kar je bilo mogoče s starim preddverjem, je mogoče tudi z novim.
- Zlasti smo ponovno predstavili " razpoložljive igralce za to igro " in s tem povezano funkcijo " predloži tabelo igralcu ". Ta funkcija sprva ni bila načrtovana za novi avli, vendar ste jo veliko zahtevali in zdaj se je vrnilo.
- Za tiste, ki tukaj igrajo veliko različnih iger, smo dodali " Oglejte si vse tabele, ki so na voljo ", ki vsebuje seznam tabel za vse igre v enem samem pogledu. Ta pogled je popolnoma enak kot v prejšnjem čakalnici, zato se ne smete motiti.
- Če imate v svojih priljubljenih več iger, lahko s pomočjo zgornjega desnega menija "Možnosti zaslona" zmanjšate manjše ikone igre.
- Danes smo predstavili vadnico za preddverje, s katero smo razložili vse njegove značilnosti.
- (in veliko, veliko majhnih stvari)
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Če ste iz stare avle resnično nostalgični, lahko storite naslednje:
- Kliknite "Možnosti zaslona" in izberite "Majhne ikone"
- Kliknite "Oglejte si vse tabele, ki so na voljo", da se prikažejo tabele kot v stari avli.
Ko se navadite, lahko izkoristite nove funkcije tega lobija:
- Tabele, razvrščene po igrah: takoj vidite, ali je na voljo miza igre X in na istem mestu vidite vse razpoložljive mize za igro X.
- Pridružite se iz čakalnice + pridružite se več tabel v realnem času.
- Vaša ELO ocena + statistika za vsako igro je zdaj neposredno vidna v preddverju.
- Če tega še niste storili, vam priporočamo, da preizkusite samodejni način, ki je zdaj zelo močan in zelo enostaven za dostop.
To seveda ni konec zgodbe. Imamo še veliko stvari, ki jih moramo popraviti in nadgraditi, da bomo naredili boljši ta lobi, zato bomo še naprej sproti posodabljali v naslednjih dneh / tednih.
Za konec bi se rad zahvalil celotni skupnosti BGA za potrpljenje in vaše mnenje. Žal smo imeli v preteklih dneh veliko - precej - agresivnih povratnih komentarjev in komentarjev, zato se želim posebej zahvaliti tistim, ki ste si vzeli čas za resnično preizkušanje novega lobija, preden ste dali povratne informacije, in ki je podrobno razložil njihovo situacijo (in frustracije), namesto da bi le objavil osnovno "to je grozno / raje imam staro / ti si neumen" komentar. Povratne informacije teh igralcev so nam v resnici pomagale ugotoviti, kaj je treba storiti, zato še enkrat hvala.
