wellywales: The server checks every 5 minutes and the browser refreshes every few minutes depending on the user settings. If this is every 5 minutes then it's possible for the browser to refresh just before the server has updated and gets the friend still showing as online. Then, five minutes after the server has updated, the browser refreshes and catches the true state. Hence 10 minutes.

wellywales: 5 minutes.

wellywales: If a person does not actually "logout", the system has no one to really know if a person is gone or not - so if a person is not active within a certain time (possible 10 minutes), then at that time they are taken off the on-line list.

Fencer, when you go offline, it still shows on your friends 'Friends online', for upto 10 minutes later, why is this?

I have noticed in 2 games of mine this morning, I am making moves I already had made. One was a double jump into the king row in checkers (hard to forget making such a move) and another a strong attack in a chess game. Was there a slight hiccough with the system at all?

plaintiger: You might want to add your comments to Bug Tracker: Arbitrary line breaks in posted messages .

Almost the last call for questions for reza's interview! Send me any questions you'd like to ask him.

and one thing i'd like to see clarified in the Hasami Shogi rules: the rules as they are don't make it perfectly clear whether a piece can move more than one space after a jump.

there is a diagram that says it shows all possible moves of the white piece, including one jump, but that still leaves just a little bit of a question in my mind as to whether that piece could have moved further beyond the jumped piece than just one square.

i'd like to see the following note inserted just below that diagram:

note that a jumping piece must stop at the first square beyond the piece being jumped over.

(or something like that.)

thanks. :)

plaintiger: phooey. it didn't. maybe it has to do with the width of the message display field? even though all the smilies are left-justified?

in my original post, all the smilies looked fine except the huggy one, which appeared as

*537
*

(that's asterisk - 537 - linebreak - asterisk).

on a matter that may or may not be related, i'm using Safari (the web browser that comes with Mac OS X) and erroneous line breaks are appearing in some of the messages i write after i post them, especially when i use a number of smilies in a row. i copied an example from an in-game conversation; let me see if pasting it in here demonstrates the problem:

=-=-=

:)

yep - it does for me, insofar as i remember the codes for the ones i want to use. :)

so far i've committed the following to memory:









and i'm working on some others.

=-=-=

now i have to post this to see if the problem appears.

reza: yes Reza...that is exactly what happens...not the long URL's but the fact that the previous page words are mixed with the current page im trying to view :(
makes it very hard to play games, but must admit that it is OK at the moment and that is only 2 hours later so hope all will be OK and thanks to all :)

Has been slow for me the last 2hrs here.
Using Firefox as I refuse to open up IE

Thought it was just my connection...

Fencer: Thank you.

reza: That's not a Firefox fault. The reason is that someone posts too long URLs which are not wrapped, of course.

Fencer: Sometimes when I go to HOME discussion boards, the page loads badly too. The width gets bigger than normal and I have to scrole to right to see the rest of the page. And sometimes I see two pages printed onto eachother. I see the texts of both mixed up and unreadable. I'm using firefox too.

BerniceC: I never had this problem with Firefox.

is anybody having this problem??

Only half the pages are loading and the bit that does load is somehow "caught" with the previous page.

this is what the right hand side looks like at the moment.....

Favourite boards (?):
BrainKing.com
Checkers variants (8x8)
Computers





Tournaments (2 new)

all the regular one i have as fav's are missing


I think it must be a "firefox" thing as everything opens OK in IE...even tho it takes twice as long :(

playBunny: actually i`m playing a guy under 150 .now there are figures win 2,000 something - ? for draw _ for a loss. i think it came out at around 1800+ not sure. i doubt it works that way .thanks for your help mook53lhd

I like to suggest that the rating of the 50 best average ratings with 11 or more games types will be divided in categories. For me doesn't make any sense that a guy wirh just 11 game types like me for instances figures on the same chart to other guy that has 25 for example, its not comparable. I mean its so unfair for the player who plays more game types, that the chart doesn't mean nothing. How about having a chart by fixed number of game types. For instances started at 11 for all the players with at least 11 established rating games types (of course the 50 best). In this chart the average will only count the best 11 game types ratings for the player. Then the same for 12 and so on so on. We can then distinguish from newbie players from veteran ones.

Marfitalu: Ok, thanks. I am blind!

How can I see my finished games? I can´t find them...

playBunny: hi thanks it says how many.?i put 5 .i guess i`ll just have to play 20 more games & find out.i`m playin around # 250 now as you suggested mook

ClayNashvilleTn: Its not your pc thats slowing down , its you LOL

Is BK experiencing a slow down or is it my computer?????

mook53lhd: Hi Mookster. Have a look at your Settings page and find Number of my best BKR shown on the main page. That's what Vikings is referring to. The BKRs are automatic as you thought; the setting just says how many will be displayed on your front page. A BKR is provisional until you finish your 25th game.

Vikings: can you give that to me again. i thought the bkrs were automatc as yu played more games you were rated.whats a provisional bkr mook

Rose:
I am here,soon this will be working.
http://www.google.com/logos/mars_rover.gif
http://mars.google.com/

estanto and BIG BAD WOLF: The new Help page will contain all up to date features. When I finish it.

estanto: Here is a nice chart of some of the advantages that people get when they upgrade their membership:

http://brainking.com/en/PaidMembership?p=1

It is not completly up to date since it does not mention ponds and such.

Fencer: Those rating graphs are a very important feature of BK. Make sure, that the non paying members are aware, what they are missing.

estanto: Yes, it's true. And everybody can see the icons.

Is it true that non paying members are not able to see the rating graphes of their opponents?
Are they able to see the icons?

reza: Definition.

Fencer: what's a telehouse?

rod03801: I don't live in a telehouse.

Go out and wave!

Ha, I've got it! Now the arrow points exactly to the Trestel Telehouse (satellite map, max zoom).

Rose: I only guessed the coordinates. I must find the exact ones somewhere (unfortunatelly I don't have a GPS device).

Fencer: OK, thanks for the advice. I'll wait patiently , for about a week anyway...

Maxxina: The brains Referral Programme

And what is unfinished work right now ?

Bry: I've just changed <br> tags to <br/> ones, due to XHTML rules. But since it doesn't seem to work with WebTV, I changed them back.

Bry: Yes. But the source code of the tournament system is currently all messed up [at least on my computer] so I want to finish the unfinished work first.

Fencer: please, please, please can you fic the "Move and go to next game of this tournament" to work on the "team" tournaments too?

Can I ask what it was?

Whatever it was, thanks for fixing it. I can think of another site where it would have taken months to take care of it! :-D

Just more proof that:

Things just now went back to normal

rod03801: What now?

Here is a link to where you can use the WebTV viewer.

http://developer.msntv.com/TOOLS/webtvvwr.asp

I am starting to hear back from other webtv users, and they are noticing the same thing.. So, I'm not hallucinating.. lol

That's line break, correct? Yes it does recognize that tag. Recognizes all html tags as far as I know..

lol.. dunno.. everything looked fine before I fell asleep 12 hours ago, or so.. Maybe I'm dreaming right now.. lol

rod03801: Do you mean that WebTV doesn't recognize the tag <br/>?