Any guesses as to what the big announcement might be?

Gabriel Almeida:

Gabriel Almeida: lol

      Fencer:

Gabriel Almeida: Hey, I was just thinking about posting some kind of announcement. But I am not at home now and it is not easy to type long posts on iPad, so I will do it tonight or tomorrow.

rabbitoid: Yes it must.

Brian1971: Only time will tell.

rabbitoid: Yes but how many of those tournaments do not get filled up? The more common games may fill up but there are many tournaments that do not fill up and with the dwindling paying member base, fewer can play in these tournaments as they do not have the space to play or they are involved in another tournament. I think Gabriel has got it right.

crosseyed: And how can a site with 1491 announced tournaments be failing? it must be very active indeed!

Gabriel Almeida: I like this site very much too. There will always be new members.

crosseyed: I hope so, as I like it very much. But I'm not very hopefull...

Gabriel Almeida: I think this site will be still be here in years to come. Fencer has put too much money, time and effort into this site for it to fail now.

well, it seems clear for me that this site is in a big crisis, do you agree? Lots of people leaving or not renewing. What can be done? Fencer your opinion is needed. If the option is to let it die, we must understand , but if not, something should be done to involve people again.

Bwild: hahahahahaha

Am I the 3th person to notice?

lol..I was just joking around....I like this site just fine.

Doris: Another thing the site is lacking and you will, probably, never see because it is not improving any more :p.

ellieoop: where's the LIKE button..:}

I recently renewed. I like this site.

rod03801: Same here. I'm just 2 codes away from completing it. I still have a membership until 2021, so no reason to hurry and spend money unless it's to complete the achievement.

Hrqls: Yes, I am/was close to finishing that achievement as well. I was planning on buying another year if the promotion came up. I still have plenty of time on my current membership though. It sort of makes that achievement unachievable if he doesn't bring that back...

Bernice: Yes, sometimes little problems appear, but for myself, each time I had a problem and told it to Fencer, he repaired it very rapidly. I always had an answer to my request.
What kind of problems do you have ? I agree with you : if you pay, it must work.

Hrqls: Hear hear I agree with you.

Hrqls: I agree I enjoy the site and will renew when I need too

Hrqls: I am right with you there...

and i think its worth its money :-)

i wish though that the easter eggs would come back .. so i could complete my black rook achievement :)

Brian1971: i dont renew to support the site .. i do renew to have fun, i like to have enough games going, playing in a fellowship, and join more than 1 tournament .. i renew for myself :-)

Nonetheless everyone Fencer is not dedicated to the improvement of the site including new features, correcting of problems on the site, etc. He has stated this as much. He also has stated that he does not need the membership fees to make the site profitable. So therefore I decided to not to renew my membership for the new year. Some have renewed, some have not. I believe if you look at the number of paying members trend, it is going downward. I still enjoy playing here, but do not support it as the owner is not supportive of it either anymore. This is just my viewpoint and not looking to start a war here at all.

Bernice: It is called "Bug Tracker" although people tend to report problems at the "Feature Requests" or "Brainking.com" boards, since Fencer has stated that the bug tracker is ignored.

@badgerboy78: The site does have several bugs that have been/are being reported regularly. The proof are all over the place. I have experienced some of them myself, too. I do not say they are critical problems or anything but problems they are.

Bernice: "proving" an accusation is the responsibility of the person making the accusation. just sayin'

badgerboy78: whatever. unfortunately I cant find the board where you report "breakages" but I bet there are dozens there....but I will stand corrected if you can prove otherwise.

Bernice: I an't see or think of any "repairs" that need to be done

Bernice: I am not having any problems with the site at present.

Bernice: Yes, the site doesn't change, what a pity.

Mélusine: I can afford to pay, but because he isnt doing any repairs to this site I can do without all the hassles....

crosseyed: Yes. Sadly, some people can't afford to pay their membership.

Mélusine: I don't like being restricted and I love using the smileys too. I will be renewing my membership in September.

MrDelete: Me too. I don't like being stuck in the number of games and I like to use smileys.

I renewed mine yesterday,no problems here !

Roberto Silva: when the membership runs out I am NOT renewing....

Bernice: Well you're not the same as you're still a rook.

Brian1971: I am the same...no renewal for me...

stargood: No problem. I let my membership lapse in February and with over 600 games started and I am down to 288 games. People try to invite me to games but I cant accept them. So for those of you who keep sending me game invites, please stop as it will be a long time before I can accept any new games as I do not wish to renew my membership.

Brian1971: Thank you Brian. I thought that might be the case, but wanted to ask to be sure.

stargood: You will be able to play the excess number of games but will not be able play any more games until you drop below 20 games.

I signed up for the Open Fevga Championship recently. At that time, there was a message about being careful not to exceed my allowed 20 games as a Brain Pawn. It said for a tournament of this type, I should leave at least 10 open game slots to avoid having the system delete some of my games for being over the limit.

I made sure that I had at least that many slots open when the tournament started. I fact I think I had 11 open slots. Now that all of the tournament games have started, I have a total of 29 games running. Am I in danger of having the system zing me for beng over the limit, or is a Brain Pawn allowed one tournament, even if it gives him over 20 running games?

limited time offer expires 4-1-16/1-4-16 at midnight in your time zone

its solved!
i didnt see i had keryo pente selected in my filter, and i didnt expected the filter from a pevious session to be remembered in my current session

i can see all again now! :-)

The13: thanks for checking for me ... it seems to be something with my player file then .. i sent a msg to fencer

For me it's okay! It always Displays a couple of games, according to my Settings in the games filter.