thesidster

Sometimes when I am in the boondocks with no cell signal, I would like to play anonymously on my phone. You can do that without logging in, but you do need a network signal. Without a signal, the app complains that "a critical file could not be downloaded". Please make this work!

It is a very childish habit, to be expected as the average age on bbo is certainly below 45. But better than the obnoxious rudeness widely prevalent here.

The popular 4 fast boards and rewards tournaments should be made 6 boards. 4 is just too prone to one error or bad play from someone. Ideally it should be 8, but 6 is a good compromise.

I have requested many times on this forum to add a option to stop receiving direct messages from people you have not followed. IT would go a LONG way to solve this problem. You can still message friends, and can use table chat. It is the anonymity of direct messaging that encourages such behavior.

I was ready with my lead to 4S and just a fraction before I clicked, my hand was shuffled to put trumps on left, and I led away from my Clubs K to get 0% on the board. By default, the software should not do anything to disturb the player. If someone wants trumps on left, they can set it.

This was my error. Sorry.

I updated my BBO Android app because the old app kept complaining that it was "obsolete". It was working fine, but I finally did update. Now, when I log in, I have no history, no TCR and cannot register for anything since it thinks I am a newbie. Needless to say, I am signing in with the same username as I always have.

Many people have complained on this forum about receiving unsolicited abuse, criticism etc after a board or tournament. Nothing is done about the abuser/stalker, except the tired suggestion to block and report. Reporting achieves nothing, and I do not expect it too. Who has the time to go thru with it ? I am sure BBO moderators have better things to do with their time. Blocking is well and good, but does not insulate the receiver from the initial shock of receiving the message. So I think BBO can give an option to block unsolicited messages from anyone not a friend or a admin. Please think about it, it will really make the experience a lot better for many players.

I recently played a TCR 80 Free Automated Fun and [one of the players] bid a very rash 4S, I doubled, and he then proceeded to take the maximum allowed time for each play and ran out the clock to get 50%. He would have got 0%. Surely something can be done about this. Some suggestions - 1. Why isnt the deal autocompleted when fewer than a certain number of tricks has been played ? In this case, it would have been an extremely easy autocomplete. 2. Each time a player takes a certain amount of time, a cumulative clock should be triggered. If he repeats this more than once after this he gets replaced by robot. 3. Report the player and the tournament id ... of course this does no real good.

I concur. I have been playing bridge for close to 40 years but still make terrible mistakes, of late mostly because my concentration fades in and out especially when playing many boards, or when I am distracted. I think the level should be not left up to the player. It should be computed from the player's play history, somehow.

This started about a week back, initially I would lose connnection and get the Connection Lost message once a day. Today it has happened 3 times in an hour. My network is absolutely fine.

You have hit the reason yourself in your statement above - "it would not be said face to face". Over the last 3 decades, as the internet and virtual interaction came to dominate the lives of millions of individuals, the concept of a face - a live, feeling person - disappeared from the thoughts of many who lived their lives on the keyboard. Needless to say, this wasnt so bad in the earlier days, the 90s and early noughties, when I used to play online on the fledgling internet. People were a lot more courteous in general, and we often discussed sports, art, many other things while playing a few rounds. The card play was almost secondary to the social nature which used to be such a dominant ethos of the game. After all, most of us were no champions, and we all knew that. People born after the internet became a dominant thing, many of them have probably not played a game of bridge ( or chess, or whatever ) "face-to-face".

At the very least, people who self identify as Novice, Private or Beginner can be screened. Soemthing is always better than nothing!

Since there are audio alerts for almost everything else, which is a good thing as one may not be on the BB tab all the time, how come there is no audio alert when a sub request comes in ? I sometimes register in list of subs and then might be doing something else, and I always miss the sub requests.

Of course they do, one has to shell out shekels for them ! The free daylongs get no such consideration ! Sid The Old Cynic