Hrqls: I am the german translator and my beta testing and reviewing army is marching with messages in my message box ... the ability to make folders or only to mark messages as unread would help

Can the menu entries on the left (or top) have a slightly bigger space between them? This would be helpful for those links that wrap around and occupy 2 lines - they look like two separate menu entries and that may not always be obvious, leading to confusion.

I'm used to it by now and know the place of every option by heart. But for newcomers it might help a little.

Yes.

Jason: lol :)

yes i agree thats why i said lol , lol ;)

Jason: true .. we have the notepad .. but thats only 1 'folder' as well

as i am a translator of this site (dutch) and now getting some info back from some beta testers i would like to store those messages in a separate folder to keep them grouped so i can have a look at them more closely when i have more time (not from work ;))

i can imagine some pms being sent back and forth about some strategies in some games as well .. which would be nice to group .. so i can have a 'five in line strategies' folder with all messages about that

i cant do that in notepad either ... or there could be more than 1 notepad folder ;)

(ok i can always save things local on my computer .. but then i wont have it when i am at home)

i asked for the same thing 11. September 2003, 07:33:10
how about somewhere to save some of our mails , out of our message box , i save some of my mail to check on things as they finnish ect , could we have an option to save these mails to a saved area in our mailbox

we got the notepad lol

Bry: exactly

Luke Skywalker: why? do you mean have a PM be e-mailed to you as well?

Luke Skywalker: seriously, mail forwarding to the registered e-mail address would be nice.

GeGe: And the next request is to send e-mail from/to the message box and have POP and IMAP access

Hrqls: I posted on here a few weeks back asking for at least one "saved" messages folder, so I could keep my inbox clean and store messages for future use.

I think Fencer may have it on his "to-do" list? but he hasn't confirmed yet. I agree, It would be a good and useful addition.

Hrqls:That would be GREAT!!!!

to organize the messages in my inbox it would be great if i could create separate folders to which i could move messages which i want to store for some time ... i can then store them by theme :)

Purple: There is also a delete option (opposite to where the edit option is) for each item in the notepad.

That will delete the note.

How do you get something OUT of your notepad. I put it on edit and deleted it but the next time I go there it is still there.

about the overdue adjusting of deleting (crazy) screen chess games
and the trafficload decreasing virtues of an additional bb-edit button ? ~*~

Daniel Snyder: maybe 500 points, 100 is too low, people would run out of points around round 6, 500 brings in more thinking with maybe a 30-40 point bonus

A faster Pond...
8-10 players total...
100 points... Ponds go quicker?

I'd like to be able to see tournament games in a table similar to the running and finished games in people's profiles. It would include both player names, whose turn it is, whether it is still running or finished, the winner, time to move, online status. Game type and event are obviously not needed so there should be enough room for the additional information

Default setting of "Move" sorting criteria on main page could be "descending", I bet this is more useful than ascending.

Fencer: The setting "number of games shown on the main page" works, but also a setting "show only games where it's my move" would be useful with combination to that.

Hannelore: Yes, that's what Paulo said - it is there but when you click it it show it like it shows your finished game records on your own profile page, pllus you are looking at it the opposite way round - i.e. the number of wins you have had is shown under losses - as if you were looking at the page from the other players perspective.

What I mean, is that if i click into your profile, it would be a good feature to have the record for the total number of games visable straight away as one line like i posted earlier.

Bry: I thought that there was a link on the profile page of others. It says, "show games with me only"

pauloaguia: Yes, but I was looking for something easier - like if I looked at your profile it would say something like "Bry-v-Pauloaguia - Won-8 Lost-2 Draw-4" for example.

Bry: You mean something like going to that players profile and checking the finished games eventually selecting the link "Show all finished games aginst me" (or whatever it says in english)
?

Is this what you mean?

Is there a way that I can see the overall record of all games played asainst a certain player?

lol If it's in one century I don't think you need to worry about it.

Any idea of when "pro-"Backgammon would be available.......?
1 day?
1 week?
1 month?
1 year?
1 century?

Fencer: I agree. I think I speak for many when I say pro-backgammon is a higher priority than organizing the home page of people who play too many games!
Maybe even fixing the BG bug would be considered?

fungame: As a temporary solution, find the new option on the Settings page (number of games shown on the main page).
I don't want to make it more complicated at the moment.

Just a small addition: favourite games would also save the server from some traffic. For example now I play at first those "favourite games" by clicking at first one of certain type with setting move and go to the next of this type. But when all moves in such games are done, main page reloads again and I process next favourite game this way. This would be prevented by an option of jumping to another favourite game type instead.
Even in current configuration it might be helpful to recognize there are no more moves for games of "this type", so instead of return to main page some page could appear with a choice what game to process next. But I like the idea with favourite games better.
If someone asks why someone would play games which are not his favourites, my answer: I mean there are kinds of games we like to play faster and kinds we like to play slower. Or when one is learning new game he can also play it slower and in spare time may be trying to get some ideas how to play this new kind of game.

May be a sorted "Favourite games" list definition for each player would be useful. Then to the filters could be added: show favourite games only, also sort by favourite games could be added
(for example if one makes a list: 1.backgammon 2.nackgammon 3.hyper backgammon, then if (s)he has some running games of these they would appear on the top in this defined order). And in combo boxes then could also appear "Go to the next game of favourite type" or something similar.

Also an alternative solution instead of filters for games could be a compressed list with + to unpack and - to pack like in discussion boards browser and I bet such one is planned to group messages in discussion boards into conversation threads by topic, too.
Don't worry I will stop here for now, I don't want to fill whole discussion board with my ideas

fungame: Yes, the filters would be an interesting addition.

Thanks Fencer, no offence was meant with these words, instead I am very positively surprised with your fast reaction ... Just it really takes a lot of time to load the page and scroll down and I bet people with slower connection would be really pleased with such filters. By the way, some year ago or so I asked about missing image in off pieces in backgammon (I believe one when there is exactly one piece out). Well, I didnt browse through all those requests here, just wrote some things that hurt me most currently :) Sure I know about some requests already pending or declined (for example autopass would be one most preferred )

fungame: Probably because I define what a "basic thing" is. But some of the proposed changes are already considered.

1) Some kind of filter for main page. Current situation is terrible, always to scroll down the whole page... a) filter to find games with online opponents, b) filter for certain (favourite games)
Everyone who has several hundreds games running knows exactly what I mean, I am really wondering why such basic thing is missing here.

2) more combo boxes with choices after buttons with decisions, f.e. definitely resign the game ... and go to the next game of this type etc, or play later ... and a combo box again
"Play later button" should move such game to the last preferred one of certain type at least, may be its hard to keep order of all games in database but there sure is some compromise.

3) missing smiles in some text boxes (for example definitely resign the game)

Thanks

Daniel Snyder: Most of those game's rules state
All rules are the same as chess except...

So, unless castling or en passant are mentioned as exceptions, you should assume they are allowed.

Castle and en passent rule be added to the rules of Chess games that allow these moves...

rod03801: That was a feature request.

LOL.. back to Feature Requests now, please!

grenv: LOL Thats funny i was born with one,but would maybe consider selling it

pauloaguia: Indeed.

grenv: You can.. There are a few for sale here

i think you should be able to buy a brain.

Universal Eyes: so you could autovacation all year long? no thank you :P

I lost 100's of games and have 0 Vaction Days left.LOL
You should be able to buy Holidays.

Thanks Fencer. I was just confused. At my age that is easy to do. LOL

Or wait for the new database server, than I'll be able to make all time left values more accurate.

Hannelore: Or he timed out in a different game before yours on the same day