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Sorry if these comments repeat others above, but the thread is too long to read completely. Ads. A necessary evil - but if they could use less screen real estate and be less animated/flashy, that would be a huge improvement. It was such a relief to play on Monday when they had been disabled completely - something flashing away in the corner is horribly distracting. Right hand edge icons. I like their functions, but think this should be an auto-hide menu which shrinks to minimal width after a time and can be dragged back to normal width when needed. As is, it eats far too much screen real estate. Chat window font size. This should be customisable. As is I can barely read on chat in it since the window for it is cramped for space by the sidebar icons and the topbar ads. With a smaller font size as an option I could mitigate this. There are other quirks, but these are the three things I'd like to see changed most.

Thanks for your reply. Cleared up a couple of things :-) I am not certain that I know what you mean, but try clicking the "BBO Now" button at the top of the screen. If this doesn't do what you are looking for, please clarify what it is you are looking for. No, this I suspect does what I'm looking for. It's just well squirreled away and as most people use the windows client no-one I asked online so far knew of it :-) For this to work you need to have a Unicode version of the Arial font installed on your system. I was under the impression that all recent Windows machines come with such a font preinstalled. This is not a Firefox issue - for me it works under both Firefox and Internet Explorer on both Windows 7 and Windows XP. That might explain it, though it remains annoying. My windows version is somewhat elderly (2000) and even my Linux is a bit long in the tooth, though assuming any font there strikes me as optimistic :-). Ideally these symbols could be translated to 'hcds' as a user option (or automatically if you can detect that Arial isn't available, though I appreciate that may not be possible). There were some problems with this in the past, but I thought that they had been fixed. If you are at a table in a club, you should be able to send and receive chat->club. If you are looking at a table list of a club, you can send chat->club but I don't think you can receive it. No, this now appears to be working as expected. I'd presumably not tested it since the latest client version was released. Thanks again.

Some feature requests for the web client: Firstly, it doesn't seem possible to join Tournaments without leaving the table. This is possible in the normal client. Secondly when people quote the suit symbols in messages, they usually don't render (running under Firefox on both Linux and Windows systems). Thirdly, while here now appears to be a 'Club' option in the chat box, but I've not yet seen any evidence that it works for me.