Version 1.48r feedback thread

[1eyedjack]

How do get on the new version?

The original web link should automatically put you on the new version. No downloading or installation required - it is all server-based. If you have problems the first thing to try is to clear your browser cache.

[lycier]

I have a question about a translation problem on chinese language version, here is a screenshot.

 

http://i64.tinypic.com/29dzek7.png

 

http://i63.tinypic.com/20psljo.jpg

 

 

 

My question is why wouldn't you translate English " Challenges " into chinese character.

 

It is really amazing what a PK you would translate and use.

 

For chinese language, the exact meanings of PK is " sb have a competition to test sb's ability and skill". So your translation into PK is really very good.

 

For English, the exact meanings of " Challenges" here is " It motivates sb to step up to another level, to see if sb can meet the challenge."

 

So I think it would better translate " Challenges " into chinese " 挑战赛 " or " 挑战 " or “ PK赛 ”.

[barmar]

It takes time for all our translators to fill in all the new places, and we didn't want to hold the release until they're all done. It will be done soon.

[1eyedjack]

No vertical scroll bar

 

as reported here

 

http://tinyurl.com/zfat5a6

 

It was identified in beta phase and is still there

 

It is by no means certain that BBO even acknowledge it as an issue.

[1eyedjack]

In the dying moments of the beta testing phase I reported

 

http://tinyurl.com/hua7xhc

 

So I am repeating it in this thread lest it gets overlooked.

 

It is about listing Challenge hands in MyHands database

[lycier]

BBO 1.48r version is a kind of groundbreaking design.

1- Better category

2- Wonderful added items : News Feed and Challenges

 

Especially for " Challenges " option,as a largest bridge game website, of course, this is an indispensable items. However it is still limited to the personal challenges at the current, it's not the most stimulating, so the most important issue is " How to make team matches in a fair way. Of course, this is very tough work, perhaps this is an impossible project. I want to say many many people have desire to see the challenging achievement be used for competitive purposes. Hoping BBO would have a feasibility study on it in the future.

Just suggesting.

[Elyk25]

I really like Challenges-- but there needs to be some guarantee that you match up with someone after playing the boards. Twice now my challenge results have come back as 1/1 because the other person matched with me did not complete it. Also challenge results should come immediately as the other person is done-- I think this would be more efficient for the players to reflect on their performance. Great job like the new design and features overall!

[RickAtlant]

Compatibility ratings are GONE for all players in the new s/w. Are you working to fix this problem ? Thank you.

[lycier]

I really like Challenges-- but there needs to be some guarantee that you match up with someone after playing the boards. Twice now my challenge results have come back as 1/1 because the other person matched with me did not complete it. Also challenge results should come immediately as the other person is done-- I think this would be more efficient for the players to reflect on their performance. Great job like the new design and features overall!

 

 

Okay,very interesting suggestion, what you said is also a good way. I think it is best that BBO would organize "Challenges" at the beginning of the current period.

It first needs to determine challenging candidates with 8 hands records, and then everyone can challenge them.

 

1- Who is the best challenging candidate in the early stages ?

Of course,they come from BBO stuff, for example : Barmar, Fred, Rain, Uday etc, including jdonn and inquiry.

One time every week.

However,the major problem is that they dare to accept everybody challenge?

For me, I want to challenge Barmar since he have won many many BBO masterpoints, here I wanna to say to Barmar : would you dare to accept my challenge? ha-ha.

 

2- Who is the best challenging candidate after several weeks?

Very simple thing, BBO can invite some decent winners of BBO masterpoints as guest candidates , and it can be regarded as a part of BBO Awards. In fact, there are many design options on challenge program.

 

Obviously, this will be a wonderful competitive game. " News Feed " will play a great role in support of the "Challenges".

[scarletv]

I guess there is a bug in chat when playing a tourney. When addressing a message to both opponents it seems only be sent to one of them. At least I had only one message shown in my chat window.

[Vesian]

It's always a good plan to have regular updates of all software - long overdue on BBO.

 

But - as a regular user of BBO I now find I do not like the colours on the home screen. Plus - gaining access to the various parts of the website is now counter intuitive..

[helene_t]

I find the new colour scheme offensive but I suppose I might get used to it.

 

It is confusing that to start a "competitive" table in the main room you have to start by "casual" rather than "competitive". Maybe the "competitive" tables in the main room should be called something else? Or maybe the distinction between competitive and recreative tables is obsolete.

 

I like that the newsfeed is now part of the tabs on the right side.

[barmar]

Compatibility ratings are GONE for all players in the new s/w. Are you working to fix this problem ? Thank you.

We're having some database performance issues, sp we temporarily disabled this non-critical feature to reduce the load. It will be restored when we resolve the problem.

[lycier]

Compatibility ratings are GONE for all players in the new s/w. Are you working to fix this problem ? Thank you.

 

we temporarily disabled this non-critical feature to reduce the load. It will be restored when we resolve the problem.

 

I have been wondering who might care about compatibility ratings, actually compatibility ratings are inaccurate even sometimes rediculous data.

[1eyedjack]

It will be restored when we resolve the problem.

Shame.

[1eyedjack]

Scope for expanding the Challenges:

 

Say you could issue a challenge to more than one named individual, in a single event? That would be cool. End up with a mini tournament of 4 or 5 players. You would have to have some protocol for if say 3 of the challengees accept and two simply fail to respond, but I can think of a number of alternative solutions to that.

 

Or you could have an Instant Robot Challenge, where I would challenge a named player to an instant tournament in which we would both play in the same instant tourney, being a pre-played robot tourney in which neither of us have played before, with 14 other tables drawn from the original robodupe (contrasted with 15 in a standard Instant).

 

Or you could combine both of those suggestions: Issue a challenge to say 5 other players to take part in an Instant, with 10 other tables drawn from the original robodupe.

 

And you could offer BBO master points to those participants who voluntarily pay $0.25 to play in it.

[diana_eva]

Compatibility and News Feed posting are enabled again.

[jmc]

After a Challenge match completes it would be nice if there was some direction as to where to find the board results. I ended up looking in recent hands but it took me a few days to realize the challenges were treated like tourneys and I could easily see the results summarized in My BBO / Tournaments. Perhaps a link or some indication in the Challenges "room" about where the results are. The notice of completion of the match could also have this information. I've been using BBO for years. A new player to BBO might have a harder time.

 

Thanks for the Challenge matches. This is the main feature I missed when using Fun Bridge. I suspect I will spend WAY more time at BBO now. Can I get to challenges on my mobile app?

[Rain]

Comp ratings, newsfeed, all working since yesterday.

[barmar]

Can I get to challenges on my mobile app?

Not currently.

[0 carbon]

You are disturbing the paradigm by having non-buttons to push.

1. Make the big choices big buttons

2. Reduce mouse movement by having, when you push each button, the most common choice positioned right under that button.

[DJNeill]

Suggestion:

- allow default tab in focus on right to be "Who's Online" for those who don't use the News Feed. Even when the News was a popup I always closed it.

(or, let it remember the last tab you were on, or if it is a "high-priority" news item notify the user somehow but not force them to see newsfeed every time on login)

[lycier]

I hope BBO can develop multi-language version in the future so as to allow users to choose freely.

From my personal point of view, I think only the English version is most classic, I would like to choose it.

Just saying.

[barmar]

I hope BBO can develop multi-language version in the future so as to allow users to choose freely.

From my personal point of view, I think only the English version is most classic, I would like to choose it.

Just saying.

You can put lang=en at the end of the URL to force English.

 

http://www.bridgebase.com/client/client.php?lang=en

[lycier]

You can put lang=en at the end of the URL to force English.

 

http://www.bridgebas...ent.php?lang=en

 

Ooch, I am very very glad to log into English version in five seconds, very fast, it is first time for me to log that, how wonderful.

Barmar, you are great.

Thank you,thank you and thank youhttp://www.bridgebase.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif