Backgammon Online

13-May-2010
02:58 PDT

When I went to my game history page, I noticed the green dot next to some of the names. It soon became apparent that this was an on line indicator, which is a good thing. Do you think your programming staff could possibly figure out a way to get it added to my games in progress list, where it would be far more useful. Thanks.

13-May-2010
10:01 PDT

It's not so much a question of 'figuring out' a way to put the online indicator on the page to which you refer; it's a question of how to balance information presented with the amount of time it takes to present that information. That page is the most visited page on the site right now so care must be taken to keep that page loading in a reasonable amount of time! Therefore, in the future, you may see this on this page, but in the meantime, you can find it on the more detailed page of your games in progress (one place is to click on the icon next to the count of games on your active games page).

13-May-2010
15:31 PDT

Maybe it would be a good thing if we could customize what to display on the My Games page, like GameKnot allows us to do. We could optionally choose to display an online indicator, and maybe other things as well, like the game type (currently also only available on the more detailed page), opponent rating, pip count (or maybe pip count difference), current cube value (for cube games), etc.

Sure, showing more information would be slower, but I certainly wouldn't mind waiting a few extra milliseconds to have that information available!

19-May-2010
11:58 PDT

Good point! We will add the suggestion to our to-do list of features/improvements