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.
新大厅更新(9月17日)
5天前,我们为Board Game Arena发布了一个新的大厅 。
多亏你们的反馈,自那时起我们已经进行了10次以上的更新 ,与初始版本相比有许多改进。
如果您没有阅读第一条新闻,我们建议您在此之前阅读 。
我们收到了非常非常多的关于新大厅的反馈意见。
Board Game Arena现在是一个体量庞大的网站,拥有比以前更多的访客,实在众口难调。
所以我们并不惊讶于反馈信息的数量。
并且当然——因为它是新的——许多人最初都在新界面迷失了方向。
因此,头两天在BGA上的游戏数变少了(-5%到-10%)。
但好消息是:我们成功了!
感谢您的耐心、反馈和我们的更新,玩家、牌桌、游戏的数量和等待时间现在恢复正常 。
昨天,BGA上有21290场比赛,这对于周一来说是非常正常的数字。
其他数据令人鼓舞:
- 游戏开桌等待时间减少了3%;
- 凑不够玩家数的游戏桌的百分比降低了1.5 (现在是39,42% ,之前40,96%).
因此,如果你过去几天在BGA感到不知所措 ,那不妨先看看我们为你做的主要工作:
- 首先,BGA没有减少任何功能。 新大厅包含旧大厅的所有功能。
- 特别的,我们重新引入了 "这个游戏的可参与玩家" 和与之相关的 "建议加入的游戏桌" 功能。 这个功能最初并没有加入新大厅,但现在千呼万唤始出来。
- 针对寻找多种游戏的玩家,我们加入了"显示所有可加入游戏桌"功能,你可以一眼看到所有心爱游戏的牌桌。 这个界面与旧大厅一模一样,所以你应该不再陌生。
- 如果你有很多心爱的游戏,你可以打开右上角的“显示选项”以缩小游戏图标。
- 今天,我们引进了一个大厅教程以介绍其功能。
- (还有很多很多细节 )
如果你真的怀念旧大厅,可以这样做:
- 点击“显示选项”并选择“小图标”;
- 点击“查看所有可加入游戏桌”以像旧大厅一样展示游戏桌。
一旦你适应了新大厅,你将从大厅的酷炫新功能 中获益匪浅:
- 根据游戏划分的可加入桌:你可以一眼看出一个游戏桌是否可加入,同时可以看到这个游戏的所有可加入桌。
- 从大厅加入+加入数个实时游戏桌。
- 你每个游戏的 ELO排名+游戏数据 现在可以在大厅直接看到。
- 我们建议你试试大厅的自动模式,这是个强大的功能,现在可以很方便地开启。
这些当然不是故事的全部。 还有很多东西需要修复和升级以完善大厅,所以我们将在接下来的几天/几周持续更新。
最后,我要感谢整个BGA社区的耐心和反馈。 不幸的是,我们收到了很多很多野蛮的反馈和评论,因此我想对经过测试再提交反馈的玩家表达 特别的感谢,也特别感谢详细描述碰到的状况(和困难)而非一味嚷嚷着“真糟糕/我就喜欢旧版的/你们蠢死了”的玩家。 这些玩家的反馈对于确定需要做什么非常有帮助,所以再次感谢你们。