4.9.1

[uday]

I activated the ads in the beta. The one at the top should be visible in most configurations (combination of screen size & resolution). The one at the bridge table should be visible in some configurations.

 

The titles of the money bridge tourneys have been tweaked to make them more readable in the smaller view.

[dosxtres]

I see 10 chat lines now when playing at the table and the playing board is smaller and the cards are much toghether.

 

That can be managed by profile and where if possible?

 

Ty

[sceptic]

hi, I was looking at the default setting (colours) for the new version and I see jjsb is green, the text on his name in the middle of the yellows is almost undecipherable, may be a change of colour for the standard colour scheme is needed

[DJNeill]

Hi,

 

On a dish network ad in the bottom right when at a table, if I scroll the chat area it turns a big part of the ad grey, until the ad refreshes.

 

Thanks,

Dan

[DJNeill]

Hi,

On a femara ad in the bottom right, toggling big/small deal does odd things to that area.

 

Thanks,

Dan

[DJNeill]

Hi,

In a tourney (at least the one I am directing now), in the registration area, if I highlight a pair, the bottom profile shows in full but the top one is truncated so that the free-form text area (systems played, declarations of self-righteousness) is not showing.

 

Thanks,

Dan

[extrasolid]

PLEASE,

 

if you need money, take it from the players. That AD-window is terrible and it destroys concentration and the game.

 

I build up a little tower with books and a CD, so I dont have to see it now.

 

The first "improvement" that is really nonsense.

 

Uli

[DJNeill]

Hi extrasolid,

What do you do for a living, and will you please provide me that service for free?

 

Thanks,

Dan

[fred]

Thanks for the bug reports, Dan. All of these things will be fixed in the next version.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[fred]

I see 10 chat lines now when playing at the table and the playing board is smaller and the cards are much toghether.

 

That can be managed by profile and where if possible?

 

Ty

You can use Control-F to change the size of the font that is used for chat. The smaller font size will result in a lot more chat being displayed. You can also use the "small chat font" in the Chat tab of the Options dialog to change this.

 

Unless you have more than 1024x768 screen resolution (in which case you should try maximizing your BBO window) the only way to get more space on the bridge table so that the cards are more spread out is to set "big cards" to off. This option is available through the At a table tab of the options dialog.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[boris3161]

I don't like the ads - or the fact that they change during play - it wouldn't be so intrusive if they were static - but if they help keep BBO free, I'll put up with them.....

[uday]

I'm not really expecting that the ads are going to be our most popular new feature. At this point we're still just collecting data (just like we are w/the ads on myhands)

[1eyedjack]

Getting error messages that may be advert related.

 

I did a screencapture, saved as jpg, but cannot work out how to post in forum. Other forums have a "file upload manager" link when posting to forums, but I cannot see it here.

[1eyedjack]

Getting error messages that may be advert related.

 

I did a screencapture, saved as jpg, but cannot work out how to post in forum. Other forums have a "file upload manager" link when posting to forums, but I cannot see it here.

Looks like it needs to be positively enabled by admin:

http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?act...&CODE=01&HID=12

I am sure I have seen images embedded in other posts.

[hotShot]

Just saw DJNeill already reported that!

 

Error Report:

 

When scrolling to the registered pairs of a tourney the upper players profile is partially covered by the lower one.

 

The upper profile does not start on top more like next to the 4the registered pair.

 

I have not seen this before today. I'm using the updated 4.9.1 Version.

 

I see this extra space at the partnership desk too now.

[bid_em_up]

I havent seen the ads at a table yet; I would imagine that they would be very distracting, but will refrain from commenting further until I actually see them.

 

I understand the desire for revenue generation.

 

Just curious, Are ads also placed in the lobby? Will switching to classic view eliminate the ads from a table? Do the users have the option of turning them off? (I doubt it, but one can hope.)

[hrothgar]

I think that there is going to be some nasty tension here:

 

I completely understand BBO's desire to generate some revenue from their very fine product. I don't think anyone would have an issue with this. I also appreciate the fact that the revenue model doesn't require subscription costs on the part of the membership. However, ads may be problematic...

 

Bridge is a game of concentration. Players are going to deliberately attempt to tune out extraneous information.

 

The ads that you are selling don't do any good unless people pay attention to them. Accordingly, the ads are going to be deliberately engineered to be obstrusive. They're gonna flash and twinkle and do whatever they can to draw peoples attention to some obscure corner of the screen.

 

Not a marriage made in heaven...

 

I'd like to suggest one potential compromise: Would it be possible to time slice the advertising? Every 10th board, some advertiser would get all of the real estate of the screen for a short commercial of some kind. The rest of the time, things stay blank.

 

Personally, I'd prefer these types of commericals to a constant (distracting) banner ad.

[1eyedjack]

Just saw DJNeill already reported that!

If that message is addressed at me, I am not sure how you can be sure that the error that I am reporting is the same as that reported by DJNeill, since (until now) I have been unable to describe my particular error.

 

Anyway, I have worked out how to post it, by piggy backing on another message board and linking to it from here:

 

http://acolatbbo.jconserv.net/viewtopic.php?p=286#286

[uday]

I can't see the pic -- would you mind emailing it to me ?

 

u d a y at b r i d g e b a s e d 0 t c o m

[1eyedjack]

I can't see the pic -- would you mind emailing it to me ?

 

u d a y at b r i d g e b a s e d 0 t c o m

roger that. on its way

[DJNeill]

Hi,

In big deal the name of West is slightly overlapped by the running score.

 

Thanks,

Dan

[uday]

We're still in beta on the ads as well.

 

We have the ability to turn them off at the top, at the table, altogether, and by username. The ads we're seeing are filtered by us, so we can also avoid selecting noisy ads (the few we see now are the quiet ones, believe it or not).

 

We don't yet know if any of this ad stuff is at all worthwhile. But if nothing else, we'll find out, and can always use the space for something else (our own ads, or your ads, or something along those lines).

 

I'm coming up with rules for when to turn them on/off automatically. We can fiddle with some of Richard's ideas once we get some more data.

 

Nothing is cast in stone yet.

[DJNeill]

Hi,

I don't know if this is the way it was before, but the cards played to this trick, in the middle of the table, in big deal, are not vertically centered in their rectangles. They are hugging the bottom.

 

Thanks,

Dan

[cherdano]

I am with Richard, I would really really like not to have ads while playing. When I am trying to have a serious game, I really want as little distraction as possible. I close all other windows, hide my taskbar, maximize BBO etc., and it does help. When I am fully concentrated, the ads might not bother me, and when I have a bad day there is no help anyway...but sometimes such ads may just make the difference between being able to focus on the bridge 100% or not.

 

Actually I might prefer paying for an ad-free bridge environment.

 

Arend

 

P.S.: I would make quite a bet that a lot of people will be much more upset about ads at the table than me.

[1eyedjack]

My problem now solved:

 

My wireless router had been configured to block all traffic from (amongst other advertising-related domains) the domain media.fastclick.net

 

Once I released that block it cleared the scripting error message. I also get more advertising passing through, of course. I don't begrudge BBO the advertising, but I try to filter it out when going to other sites.

 

EDIT: Belay that - still getting the script error. Used to get it every time I would join a table as spectator for the first time on logging in, but no longer (hence my feeling that it was cured). Now I am still getting it on occasion when leaving a table. It may be caused by another domain blockage, perhaps?