On the Message Box page there's a two-value dropdown and a [Show] button for changing between the Inbox and the Outbox. It would be simper if there were two separate buttons.

playBunny: Anything you do on the client side cannot be trusted. I could simply modify the incoming Javascript to not send a time out to the server. Of course, you could be checking at the server as well, but if you're going to do the checking for time-out on the server, there's no need to do it in Javascript on the client side.

to make it to where when you put someone on hide on one board.. it automatically puts them on hide throughtout the rest of the site?? It is really annoying to have someone hidden for days then stumble onto a board where you have participated.. only to see that user post negative towards you when they usually don't post there to begin with..

Please.. could you consider putting this code in..

Thanks

Pedro Martínez: Lolol. It can get very mindboggling, especially if you have server-side generation of content plus client-side generation of content plus javascript bells and whistles. Testing of the pages has completely different challenges to plain old html, too.

I wish I had taken part in that discussion. Can we have it all over again in English? ;-)

playBunny: There was a discussion on javascript on the Czech version of this board and Fencer referred to it as an "enormousness"...:)

Sorry, I thought it was back to something else. Thanks for explaining. I just play the game, not into that side of the competitive stuffs.

MidnightMcMedic: Take the idea to the Chess discussion board? I think not, lol - I don't care two hoots about chess.

The clock may be named after a chess player but timed games are very much a feature of backgammon. i only use the name because that's what it's labelled here. I could have given it the title Timed Games in Backgammon with Minutes and Seconds - oh, I just did. ;-)

And besides, this feature suggestion is a totally new idea, incorporating client-side javascript as it does.

LuckyCat9: No more bringing up old requests please

playBunny: thank you for your information but please anymore on this Fischer clock thing should be taken to the chess boards. thank you

Just an idea ...

If the timing of the Fischer clock were done using client-side javascript then it might be possible to work out a decent way to have sub-hour times and bonuses. It may even be possible to create clock control suitable for real-time games, such as (in backgammon) 2 minutes for the game plus 10 seconds bonus per move (though that's not taking postback and reload into account).

Lamby: Yeh, we should get a politics board up! Hiya Lamby ;)

On the main page there is a line saying something like "Total number of started games: 22 (you have 28 free slots)".
The number 22 here equals the number of ongoing games plus the number of ongoing ponds.

Id like to request that this number also includes the number of pending invitations (from me to someone else) since these games actually influence my hability to start new games.

The top files from my internet cache:

686KB .... "Vvvvv" Started Games (one of my current opponents - 1800 games!!)
312KB .... "Wwwww" Started Games (another opponent - 900 games!!)
251KB .... Finished Ponds
245KB .... "Xxxxx" Started Games
244KB .... "Yyyyy" Finished Games
167KB .... Tournaments list
129KB .... "Zzzzz" Started Games
108KB .... Fellowships list (I'd rather see the description than the lists of games)
107KB .... Backgammon discussion (but that's my choice of how many messages I want to see)

While it was interesting to go to these pages, there's no way that I've made use of even 1% of the information (except on a discussion board that's been busy).

It really doesn't surprise me that those two are Kata Liana and AbigailII.

Following on from the previous request.

It would be nice to ease the load on the server and making allowances for people on dialup, or those who simply don't appreciate having to download huge lists.

One example is the tournament list mentioned blow. Another is when looking at someone's Started Games. I do this to see how busy potential opponents are or, having moved, to see where in their list my games are. As a broadband user that's not too bad except for the people with hundreds of games - then it can be seconds to download. But for a dialup user those sorts of lists are painful and expensive.

A simple solution would be to have a User Setting which limits the length of these lists to a given number of entries. More complex would be allowing a date horizon to be specified. taking it further there could be different values for different lists.

Czuch Chuckers just noticed that there is a tournament created for October 2006. He saw it on the link on the main page and went for it but realised in time that it's pointless joining it now.

There are two people who have created a year's worth of tournaments in one go. It makes it easy for them but it creates problems for everybody else.

Firstly, as Czuch found, the distant tournaments, though practically irrelevant, get displayed on the main board. Presumably these tournaments are chosen at random from the entire list. As there is a high percentage of these far-futures's, that's going to have a potentially large number of people going to the tournament and backing out when they've realised that they've wasted their time. Or perhaps they don't realise, join up and a year hence find themselves in a tourney that they'd forgotten about.

The other problem is, I would guess, more serious. The entire tournament list gets downloaded every time that anyone visits that page. With so many pointless tournaments that's a huge waste of bandwidth for the server and a pain in the bum for anyone on a slow dialup, not to mention a leak in their purse if they are paying by the minute.

The feature request is thus to allow people to create tournaments in advance, decades if they so desire, but don't have them appear in the system until they are within a more reasonable period. I would be quite happy only knowing what's happening in the next week or so and I'm sure some would want longer, but who needs to plan their tournaments months ahead?

I apoligize for allowing it to go this long. Next time something like this starts, it will be hushed sooner if I possibly can.

Fencer, thanks Fencer...Just out of curiosity, where are feature requests acknowledged?

Please stop this argument. The request was placed and acknowledged, no further discussion can make the process faster.

Jason: No offense, but you are a member of 34 fellowships, including having your own, so surely there must be plenty of reading for you here on BK?
Besides with General Chat being a General Chat board I doubt that political converstion will carry on there indefinately, thats the great thing, its open to any & every topic :o)

Lamby: I have to skip all the Politics and like so its not worth reading anymore for me .

ScarletRose: I totally disagree! Its working fine on the General Chat Board without Moderators having to do anything! The conversation about politics hasn't involved any swearing or inappropriate language, apart from yourself who got the closest to it by saying 'freaking this & freaking that'
General Chat, is GENERAL CHAT & we should be able to discuss anything of general interest! Besides the current politcs conversation on there is far better than the useless drivvle that is usually on there! Its refreshing to actually read a proper topic of conversation. For those who don't like it its simple....dont read it!
However, I would not be opposed to a General Polics Board aswell

Ah, but General Chat does NOT allow any and all discussions. I have seen many times where a moderator has asked for a topic to be discussed elsewhere. For example, I have seen where a topic has evolved to discussing a proposed feature when a mod came in and asked it to be continued on the feature board. So, the same would hold true for politics.

I just think that with how often (and how negative) political discussion come up, it would be nice to put it somewhere else. I also feel it should be a general board (not a fellowship).

playBunny: Membership does have its advantages.

NOT a floosie: Slight problem for Pawns with the fellowship idea.

Pedro: I agree, If this Features board can have English language debates(!) then General will get any and all topics.

Summertop: Yet I see the value in a Politics board for those that want it.

I don't care if there's a public Politics board or not. General Chat is general chat and it should be open for any kind of discussion.

There are fellowships on this site where politics can be discussed without having them on General Chat. I, for one, would object to having a Politics on a public board.

Maybe not. Discussions ate the Debate Club board are always very civilized, even with so different points of views...

Summertop: do you know how many mods would have to be on that board?? LOL

and some debates.. well.. how would one determine if it were debate or flaming.. I think the reason they don't have that board.. is due to the constant stress it would create.. at least in a public board.. haha

Purple, no kidding. I think they would only have to make sure there is no foul language and the topics are political. Of course any blatant personal attacks would have to be deleted. But a certain amount of leeway would have to be given.

Summertop: I would like to see a DB like that but pity the poor moderator. LOL.

Pedro Martínez, well...Just like there are specialized boards for Feature Requests, Tounaments, Fellowships, Poetry, Music, Sories, Jokes, etc. Because Political Discussions are so common (and tend to get heated), I think they deserve their own board.

Summertop: So it should be a Not-so-General Chat with no Politics...

Too often the General Chat board is inundated with politics. Quite often political discussions turn into heated arguments. I know you (Fencer) are trying to limit the number of general message boards, but could we PLEASE have a "General Politics" board? I can't be the only one that is getting tired of people arguing politics (in the General Chat).

i think playbunny means a graph of the distribution of bkrs over all players with a rating on a specific game type

like the backgammon rating in a graph

that way you can easily see how far ahead the top players are from the rest of the group (bkr-wise)

so it would just be a visualisation of the rating list of each game type

nobleheart: Yes, paid members also have access to ratings graphs very similar to LittleGolem - where you can look at the history of one game to see yours or someone elses history.

nobleheart: Er, these sites do graphs of the BrainKing backgammon and hypergammon ratings, and record my games for me???? ;-)

playBunny:
they have one for each game for each player at :
www.littlegolem.net
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here:
http://us.bugcafe.net/language/en/
you can download a .pdf file of all your past games
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these are nice features,but they require work.

It would be interesting to see a graph showing the distribution curve of all players' ratings for a given game. The player's own position could be shown. Perhaps, too, anyone in their Friends List.

mook53lhd: Tip for mook53lhd.. Get a computer. Throw out the webtv.. LOL

i`m tired of seeing you printing tips with the addendum .does not work for webtv .get it to work mook53lhd

Fencer: It wuz it wuz! LOL. Will try again.

Purple: Obviously it wasn't the exact same link.

I posted a link to a checker tournament on Checkers DB and it went up fine. I tried to post the exact same link on Tournaments DB and it came back "invalid request." Are we only allowed to post an advertisement in one place?

WhiteTower: Possible. But I don't understand what I could understood :-P

Spirou: Maybe you didn't understood (sic) it either?

Pedro Martínez: I didn't knew. I give up :-))).

Spirou: That would cost reza more than continual access, I think. I used to have such type of connection also, once you're on-line, use your time as much as possible. Every dial-up costs you a lot of money...:)

Pedro Martínez: Correct! Though you could then disconnect and meditate on the position ;-)

Spirou: The problem is that if you want to access e-mail, you usually have to get on-line first.:)

BIG BAD WOLF: If someone like Reza pays for each minute online, wouldn't be a good suggestion to have the option "Display the position in the email inviting to perform the move"? So he may think his next move before connecting to BK.