[1eyedjack]

Scope for expanding the Challenges:

Say you could issue a challenge to more than one named individual, in a single event? That would be cool. End up with a mini tournament of 4 or 5 players. You would have to have some protocol for if say 3 of the challengees accept and two simply fail to respond, but I can think of a number of alternative solutions to that.

Or you could have an Instant Robot Challenge, where I would challenge a named player to an instant tournament in which we would both play in the same instant tourney, being a pre-played robot tourney in which neither of us have played before, with 14 other tables drawn from the original robodupe (contrasted with 15 in a standard Instant).

Or you could combine both of those suggestions: Issue a challenge to say 5 other players to take part in an Instant, with 10 other tables drawn from the original robodupe.

And you could offer BBO master points to those participants who voluntarily pay $0.25 to play in it.

[diana_eva]

Compatibility and News Feed posting are enabled again.

[jmc]

After a Challenge match completes it would be nice if there was some direction as to where to find the board results. I ended up looking in recent hands but it took me a few days to realize the challenges were treated like tourneys and I could easily see the results summarized in My BBO / Tournaments. Perhaps a link or some indication in the Challenges "room" about where the results are. The notice of completion of the match could also have this information. I've been using BBO for years. A new player to BBO might have a harder time.

Thanks for the Challenge matches. This is the main feature I missed when using Fun Bridge. I suspect I will spend WAY more time at BBO now. Can I get to challenges on my mobile app?

[Rain]

Comp ratings, newsfeed, all working since yesterday.

[barmar]

jmc, on 2016-April-08, 06:40, said:

Can I get to challenges on my mobile app?

Not currently.

[0 carbon]

You are disturbing the paradigm by having non-buttons to push.
1. Make the big choices big buttons
2. Reduce mouse movement by having, when you push each button, the most common choice positioned right under that button.

[DJNeill]

Suggestion:
- allow default tab in focus on right to be "Who's Online" for those who don't use the News Feed. Even when the News was a popup I always closed it.
(or, let it remember the last tab you were on, or if it is a "high-priority" news item notify the user somehow but not force them to see newsfeed every time on login)

[lycier]

I hope BBO can develop multi-language version in the future so as to allow users to choose freely.
From my personal point of view, I think only the English version is most classic, I would like to choose it.
Just saying.

[barmar]

lycier, on 2016-April-09, 00:53, said:

I hope BBO can develop multi-language version in the future so as to allow users to choose freely.
From my personal point of view, I think only the English version is most classic, I would like to choose it.
Just saying.

You can put lang=en at the end of the URL to force English.

http://www.bridgebas...ent.php?lang=en

[lycier]

barmar, on 2016-April-09, 06:14, said:

You can put lang=en at the end of the URL to force English.

http://www.bridgebas...ent.php?lang=en

Ooch, I am very very glad to log into English version in five seconds, very fast, it is first time for me to log that, how wonderful.
Barmar, you are great.
Thank you,thank you and thank you

[1eyedjack]

The lack of a vertical scroll bar is not just limited to the top left pane of the opening screen after logging in (see earlier report in this thread and beta testing thread)

If you click on "Masterpoints and Races" icon from within that pane, the next pane that opens repeats the problem.

[mink]

I open "My BBO" - "Hands and Results" - "Recent Tournaments". Then I click on "My Hands" for some Daylong Tournament I have played. The list of "Other Tables" is simply too long to extract relevant information. It would be much better if for each result there is only one line where the number of occurrences of this result is displayed in addition to the current columns, and the bidding and play below is just an example of a table where this result was achieved. Maybe this way of displaying other tables should always be chosen above a threshold of 500 tables or so.

[mink]

In the "My Table"-list of a total points tourney the columns usually used for IMPs or MPs are empty. Maybe you could use them for displaying the average total points in this boards. So I would have a clue if my result is above or below average. It is not so important to have this information while the tourney is running, but I would like to have it when I study "My Hands" later.

[barmar]

mink, on 2016-April-11, 05:10, said:

I open "My BBO" - "Hands and Results" - "Recent Tournaments". Then I click on "My Hands" for some Daylong Tournament I have played. The list of "Other Tables" is simply too long to extract relevant information. It would be much better if for each result there is only one line where the number of occurrences of this result is displayed in addition to the current columns, and the bidding and play below is just an example of a table where this result was achieved. Maybe this way of displaying other tables should always be chosen above a threshold of 500 tables or so.

Good idea -- BridgeMates use this same technique when they display travellers.

If a line is for multiple results, it probably should be expandable, so you click on it and it opens up to show all the tables with that result, and you can then click on these to see the bidding and play.

[Hiboard]

There are several things about the new design that I do not like. Graphically, it is primitive, reminding me of the early days of web page design. I do not like it opening on news feed, but would rather have a default to "who's online". Perhaps each member can choose their preferred default. Finally, I question the need for new design...jut for the sake of change? sorry, it just doesn't work for me.

[lycier]

Just now I logged in to BBO by client of English version.( Barmar teached me.)
I saw Diana's Challenges, so I accepted it. However I joined the table and played normally several hands, suddently BBO server terminated our Challenges, removing me from the match table, I have no idea what had happened.

[lycier]

Now I can join the table to complete the rest of that PK match.

[TinyLion]

diana_eva, on 2016-April-04, 08:58, said:

A new version of BBO was released today. This is Version 1.48r.

Main changes are:

• Newsfeed
• Challenges
• Free Daylong Tournaments
• New design

For details, see:
http://www.bridgebas...n-148r-is-here/


Please post your suggestions/feedback here!

The new design is Godawful! Liked the old one far better. Was much more visually well organized and far less of an eyesore.

[lycier]

I think " Challenges" is a wonderful match. Here I have a question, I have no idea what " best hand " is.

I think the challenges will become more interesting if I can challenge all my friends, so I would suggest :
1- add a option : Challenge all my friends
2- meanwhile add a option on limited time : 30 min, 1 hour, 2 hours, 24 hours etc.

More importantly, this will contribute to the activities of the bridge group.

[1eyedjack]

lycier, on 2016-April-14, 03:22, said:

I think " Challenges" is a wonderful match. Here I have a question, I have no idea what " best hand " is.

If you tick "best hand" then on no deal will any other hand at the table hold more HCP than you.