blackest_k Posted February 20, 2004 Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 hi I would like to propose a new classification or two to the player listingscurrently you can choose to assign friend enemy or neutral to an individualplayer. this feature is quite useful by scrolling down the lists of tables you can locate your friends easily. however there is a limit to how many friends you can handle, you dont want to greet every player you enjoyed playing with but its difficult to remember who you have played with before and who you havent. I would like to suggest a new catagory "prefered" and possibly played. prefered would show a user to see players they haved played with and enjoyed playing with played would show players that you have played with but have little preference for (who likes making enemys) this leaves neutral as players we have yet to meet. this would allow you to make an informed choice when picking a table you would see who you have played with before and enjoyed playing also those who bored you played too slowly ect as well. Perhaps this could be implimented as a client side list but maintained on the server ie you log on your preferences are downloaded from server as now but then the local copy is used once it is downloaded this would save the server working overtime trying to remember and display everybodys preferences towards individuals. This simple solution would i hope be an attractive proposal to the majority of members and could replace the country filter currently implimented in the new beta version which I feel reinforces racial stereotyping. we all know adolf hitler used the six pointed star to great effect to promote racial hatred within germany do we really want to do this in online bridge ? I hope no one is offended by this post politics should have no part in bridge and the country filter has the potential to divide our community. what comes next? We can't like everybody but at least lets make our choices based on the individual. regards John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anssibragge Posted February 20, 2004 Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 Me myself, I'd like to have friend lists which I can create and delete on will. First of all, I'd create 5 lists, Finns greeted, Finns in general, Germans greeted, Germans in general and finally "Other friends". And I'd set greet-reminder-option for the greetable + other friends on. Hoping such would be available :) And later I'd create other lists for various needs.. abe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackest_k Posted February 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 Me myself, I'd like to have friend lists which I can create and delete on will. First of all, I'd create 5 lists... And later I'd create other lists for various needs.. abeI like this Idea it shouldnt be too difficult to achieve presumably the existing friends enemys neutral flag uses at least 2 bits and possibilty a whole byte of datawhich is downloaded from the server. so adding further lists user1 user2 shouldnt be so hard to achieve. However you do have a practical limitation on how many lists you can highlight without getting totally confused. So perhaps you would need to have an option to choose which list you choose to highlight in the club. Currently purple is used to highlight friends if as a user you could assign this to one of your lists it would become a very useful tool for users and club organisors and by defaulting to friends it would still be useable for novice's warm regards John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spwdo Posted February 26, 2004 Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 hi, maybe add comments on friends status, for example like u suggested , u add date to his profile, when u scroll over his name u then later see besides the profile he created also your comments about this player, nice feauture, not sure to get the comparison between hitler `s ways of doing beeing in any way the same as the filteroptions on bbo, i must be mistaken here . anyways this is my last post on this topic, it seems i see this for the third time, topic, poll, new topic, greetings marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csdenmark Posted February 26, 2004 Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 Filtering mechamism was a feature needed in ancient computer time 20-30 years ago. Power of computers has encreased very much since then and in that direction it is likely to continue. - Today you use searchable databases and highlight features for costumizing. My little laptop will have no problem handling 1 million logins to BBO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackest_k Posted February 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 - Today you use searchable databases and highlight features for costumizing. My little laptop will have no problem handling 1 million logins to BBO.you are right we all have enough computing power to search and highlight featureswe are interested in. Bridgebase online has two components a server to which we connect and a client which is what we use on our own computers. The more server side features you add the greater the bandwidth and processing power needed for the server to cope especially as numbers of features/users increase. a client side database would minimise the traffic to the server keeping bridgebase fast. I presume as your friends list follows you round from computer to computer that when you log on its downloaded as a local copy when you log if its newer than the existing version on the computer you are using and when you make changes it gets updated on the server. We have the chance to discuss idea's here those with merit may get taken onboardwe can only hope B) warm regards john Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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