Quick news blurb before I head out for much of the day.
Issues brought up so far:
Gladiators:
1. missing ‘notes’ — not sure where that went but that will be fixed
2. Some (many) score tables might not be updating. That might be trickier… note that elves can fix that at the end, but of course I will fix that. Might be confusing for a while
Chez:
- chime doesn’t work (for those who use it)
Both sites:
I changed scoring for OSPD and OWL (the North American lexicons) at end of game (except for “Targets” tournaments). Scoring in club and tourney play in North American doubles the value of unplayed tiles of the one who did not go out and adds to player who did go out. That does not change the ‘spread.’ I will review how this works for 3- and 4- person games, I think that alters that outcome. If true, and I think it is, I will revert that soon to the way it was before. 2-player games, however, will use ‘official scoring’ for OSPD and OWL games henceforth.
And lastly if you missed this in prior messages, the Forum proved too ugly a beast to move over, and the deadline to get the move going was rapidly approaching, so I jettisoned it. I’ll think about how communication can work in future, but there is always that help address you can see from the help pages. It lacks member-to-member however, so I’ll think about that a bit later. It’s most common use was alerting us to player absences, which we can do by e-mail, but also asking other members if they had heard from a member. That’s the number one ability I’d like to have still.
Thank you for the transition! And for all your hard work in general 🙂
I checked the ‘Automatic email for every turn’ in ChezMoi settings, but it doesn’t seem to work. Do you plan to retain notifications? I find it very helpful so I would really appreciate it!
I can’t enable that at this time — that caused too many e-mail to leave the site per day. I’ll be exploring options for turning that back on later, but currently, I have a hard limit and so it’s restricted to people requesting their account details, game starts, and game overs. For frequent players like me, I just show up and see what’s available. And for those who play on Gladiators infrequently, like me, I added a feature a few years ago so that when you are on your Chez panel, the ‘tourneys’ button has bright red lettering when you have a game on Gladiators for which it is your turn. That ‘red’ signal updates every five minutes or so. That is particularly useful if you sign up for a tourney that didn’t start for two weeks, and you might not remember that you joined it! That exact thing happened to me a couple times, which is what inspired me to do that. And I get way too many e-mails to want them coming in, too.
I understand, thank you!