Purple: Yes, i can see 3 Checkers challenges, 2 yours and 1 Nirvanas, yet if you are Checkers Captain you should see Nirvanas

Be so much easy if everyone could see everything

Purple: You will only be able to see challenges in Teams that you are Captain of (you can not see your own though).

I can see you Checkers ones in there at the moment.

coan.net: I do understand what you are saying, the same as what Fencer said

BUT why can not we just have a simple selection box, like we already have when creating normal Waiting Games. Where we can select what Fellowship we are selecting it for or creating one for......simple really

pauloaguia: That is what i envisaged when i thought of the idea.

I just wanted a place where i (as a Big Boss), could put public Invites (which i can through the Fellowship, but not via the Waiting Room, crazy) and also accept them on behalf of my Captains. I am here a LOT more than all my Captains, and it would be nice when a challenge is posted to be able to see it & accept it rather than having to wait until my Captain logs in.

As you say not all Captains are alert enough or interested enough to keep up with things like this, and all Team members as well should be able to see the invites.

Purple: Fencer will not allow Bosses to unless they are Captains of those Teams

Crazy when Bosses can do exactly the same within a Fellowship, by clicking on the link in the Team box (Create new public team challenge) and creating one for a Team there, but you can not from the Waiting Room.

I wish i knew the difference

Yesterday, there were 2 red numbers beside Waiting games, one for Single Player games & one for Team ones
Team one seems to have gone

Animal: I know, i have it, and he had it as well, thats not the problem. He can not use PayPal

pauloaguia: I do not see why someone in the states should have to send me (in England) money, it may as well go straight to Fencer

There was until a while ago a list of people in various countries, where what you suggest could be done making it easy. Sadly, that is now gone. They have not got a PayPal account for a valid & personal reason, yet because of this they can not get there membership, and so leaving, because no one has the time to help them with there problem.

i have done my bit, keeping them here, even paying for them to try out membership, maybe i should just buy there Black Rook for them as well

This place amazes me, in a BAD way sadly these days.

I have a friend who i made a Bishop for a while to see if he liked it here. He did and wanted to get a life membership ( Black Rook ), but has no PayPal account and a wire transfer will cost a fortune on top.
He has asked for help from Fencer and although Fencer did reply, he has got know where. So sadly now him and his friends (who have the same problem) are now leaving BrainKing.

Myself and harley created Customer Service years ago for this or anything to sort problems out and answer questions, to help people, this seems to have all but vanished along with Customer Service.

This is not a dig a Globs, but at everything this site is becoming. I love this place and have done since i joined over 5 years ago.

In those days you could post on boards and get a friendly answer in minutes. These days you are lucky to get and answer, and if you do it is not exactly helpful or understanding. As has proved AGAIN over the last few days, an argument starts.

It comes to something when we can not even help others sort problems out. I thought getting members and therefore generating income would be of vital importance to running a site like this.

Sadly as normal, i am wrong

Fencer: ahhh thanks

No not really, i have the odd smiley that does not show itself, but shows as a group of a few pixels in a block, but apart from that all BK images are fine

Only problem i had yesterday was with the Alquerque board. I know it is large anyway, but for some reason the board once loaded, parts of it looked as if they were not loaded, if that makes sense. Like not completely there.
Is there no way to make smaller Alquerque, Jarmo and Ludo boards ? (yes i know, time lol)

Fencer:

p.s. Did you miss my question, brainking.com & i.brainking.com, what is the difference ?

Fencer: OK, i will except what you say

Just so weird that up to a few days ago the site transfer / loading whatever we call it here was as fast as every pother place.

So my question is, what has changed

Oh yeah, and whats the difference between brainking.com & i.brainking.com ?

Bernice: I just want to make it clear to Fencer there is a problem somewhere and from EVERYTHING i can see the only place it happens is here

srnity: I wonder what the i.brainking thing i get as well is then ??

7.87 secs to post that and complete page load

Fencer: ok, as i said i am trying to be helpful

I sit here and watch all these messages (and more) appear lots of times in rapid succession while a page is loading:
waiting for brainking.com
reading data from brainking.com
waiting for i.brainking.com
connecting to i.brainking.com
connected to i.brainking.com
read brainking.com
transferring data from brainking.com (this stays and waits the longest)

and all this time the page is still loading, and Fasterfox counter is timing it.

How come with NO other site i have this problem, i never get to read those messages anywhere else as it happens so fast and the page, HOWEVER big it is loaded.

Again, i am trying to be helpful and giving you any information i think may help track the answer as i know i am not the only one, and like i said the site has been amazingly fast up until a few days ago

Fencer: Without getting into an old conversation, we are trying to be positive (well i am lol)

The site has been great for ages now, BUT since about the time of the Archive, i have a dramatic slowdown in brainking response time.
All other sites, well, the other 7 open in Tabs at present load pages between 1.07 and 3.61 seconds.
Brainking varies wildly though, i can get a games page load in from 1.7 secs which is great, however, any other pages seem to take anywhere from 4 to 20 secs

Just an annoying observation, what has started this again

Jim Dandy: Yes, i was not going to mention it, but the last few days, in fact since the Data Archiving it has been real bad at times.

I would of thought that would make it faster, like cleaning & defragging

Fencer: Look what i found

I want to receive an occasional BrainKing newsletter to my e-mail account

Whens the first one

Nirvana: This was discussed a while ago and i think Fencers answer was something along these lines.
If you are the Big Boss of a Fellowship, you only have people in there that you choose, and hopefully get on with, and that follow the rules you set down.
You have the power to remove anyone, who does not abide by your rules.

This i would normally agree with, but with one exception, when you have been left in charge of someones Fellowship for a reason of absence. Here it might be nice to have 'suspend a person' option where all there Fellowship privileges are halted (no read/write boards, joining Tournaments & Teams etc....).

Fencer , that was sorted quickly, made for some funny results though

coan.net: I guessed the same, glad i am not having a funny moment

Thought it may be something to do with these meteors

Example, look at this Madmonkeys 'Gammon' Stakes (6)

The final has just this second started, yet acording to the results a game has already finished, yet click on it and it has not even started

The section results are just loopy.

Is anyone else seeing odd things with Tournamet results tables ?
I was just looking at one, which show a 2 section Tournament.
Section 1 has finished, and the winner coloured yellow YET there are no results in the boxes.
Section 2 is still running, yet every result box has a space for 2 results (which is wrong as it is only a one game match), but the first result shows as unfnished and the second as a draw in EVERY game.
I have tried a couple of Tournaments and go the same basic problem.

I thought it may have been Firefox having a funny moment, so have tried IE and it is the same

Fencer, finished my Interview, do you or Paulo have to release it ??

OH, and no editing it lol

emmett: Well i have done them on boards so i guess it is the same

Find the YouTube video you want, to the right you will see where is says Embed.
Under that is a Link, just copy and Paste that to where you want to show it

Fencer: Thats good, at least i did not imagine it

OH, and who do i talk to about spending the night at WORK and ACTUALLY having to do some rather than play games

hmmmm someone fill me in, the site is back working, yet it had been down 6 hours when i last tried to get on

When did it come back ?
What about the games that have timed out ? (not mine, but someone mentioned them on BrainKing Google Discussion Board)
No mention of the clock being stopped, in fact no mention on anything

rod03801: Yep, thought of that, just thought it could be set to do it automatically like all the other options

Nirvana: I did ask about that, well similar.

That Little Bosses could be able to edit / delete posts on a DB, but he said no

So i asked if Little Bosses could be added automatically as mods of Fellowship boards (as Big Bosses are), but no as well

Maybe we can think of a compromise

Andersp: Having a break from it presents keep going down the hole

Jim Dandy: bless him

I know it nothing to do with BrainKing, but lets have a little fun and help Santa out on Xmas day

Well, who wants to Help Santa out ???

Come on everyone play Xmas Corner

Hrqls & alanback: Yes, i never thought of it

I should come here more often

WellyWales & coan.net: I think this should be looked into again myself

I (like others) have no vacation days left, BUT do not really want to have to (but would love to pop on) come on line Xmas Day

When i added 6 months to my membership this year i did not even think about Xmas, now i have no days left to use, or apart from buying MORE membership can not get any more, thats why i requested a while ago about the ability to buy and 'X' amount per year if needed , after all, its still money for BrainKing

The site should be more flexible when things like this come about.
We have a site action for the month about buying membership and getting extra for what you pay, which is great if you have spare money at this time of year. Sadly, like MANY others i do not, as family etc... have to come first this time of year

I will mention more in my interview

Xmas should be a time for people to be happy, have fun, relax, hopefully be with family, play games if they have time BUT NOT be made to feel they have to be here, as much as we love the site

PLEASE Fencer, lets keep saying

pauloaguia: hmmmm, i think you as you are the main contact person, SHOULD be able to have those options, OR it could be open to abuse

Fencer: Does pauloaguia (or whoever lol) have the ability to delete / edit any questions that need to be

Fencer: hey, i can send myself a question

Probably get the answer wrong anyway

pauloaguia: Have you had any yet

dicepro: Always willing to help

Very boring at work lol

Bernice: Maybe if we had a new game or 2 just for Xmas , we will let him off

Fencer 1,000,000

Did something happen this morning to the site

I have 11 time out messages in my inbox from 5 different opponents in the space of 2 minutes about 06.10

(EDIT)

Maybe not, one was here today, but the others have not been on in a while

Binabik: Click on 'Time Left' with the little green arrow pointing upwards

pauloaguia: I know BUT i would like to know how Fencer is going to implement the site ones as there are a few ways to do it as you sort of mention in you second piece to Fencer.
We can not add them to Stairs already created for some reason, and when we do create them what games do we include, but i guess thats our choice, will be hard actually to please everyone. I think by Random section will be best.

Fencer: Are you going to set Random Stairs for the site ?

Just if you do i want to see how you are going to go about it so i can copy in the Madhouse (like to keep things the same)

I know we can choose how to set them, either by including all games, some of them, or maybe even by setting Random sections (Gammons, Chess etc...).
Be interesting to see how you do it (if you do)

Thanks Fencer, Team Challenges now seem to work fine

RSS feed on the .info site comes in handy

pauloaguia: Thats all i could think of, just wanted to find out (thought maybe a bug lol)

Can not have one of my Teams vanishing

rabbitoid: It says above that vikings answers have gone to Fencer and waiting to be put online

Just going through the upcoming Team Tournaments and noticed something.
Normally when looking at a sign up page (where we sign the Teams), it shows all Teams entered so far and also Team that are open to join.
I just looked at the Halma 10x10 one, BUT can not see the Madhouse Team in either list.
We already have the 4 players needed, but as it has not been entered yet, should it not show on the 'Open Teams to join' list

pauloaguia: