Dec 3rd 2020 12:49 •
Countess-Aleksey •
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Friends appearing on the games log can be a distraction and it is difficult to search for game related actions.
Dec 3rd 2020 22:14 •
BGAgod •
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this is annoying. I would love this feature
Dec 4th 2020 13:00 •
Hosslad •
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I agree, and would add the same for groups - I'm a member of 3 groups but generally only playing real time in one of those groups at once - it is frustrating when all the messages from other groups as well as friends keep appearing in the game log - would be great to be able to toggle messages on/off.
Dec 6th 2020 20:58 •
R o d n e y •
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I don't personally use the game log, but when I see it, I don't understand why they put so much info on friend's activity. This isn't Facebook. Most of us rarely know their BGA "friends" personally. So, while we enjoy playing with them, we are not quite as interested in their activity.
Dec 7th 2020 18:41 •
janezy •
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It would be especially useful to turn off notifications about who your friends have friended and when they register to tournaments.
Dec 7th 2020 22:25 •
MikeIsHere •
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it is especially hard to read the game log in a turn based game when all you see is
X is online
X is offline
Y is online
X is online
Y is offline
X is online
X is offline
Y is online
X is online
Y is offline
X is online
X is offline
Y is online
X is online
Y is offline
Makes me want to not have friends.
Dec 25th 2020 21:04 •
zingadoodle •
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Yes.
Jan 24th 2021 16:19 •
Katt83 •
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Please allow choice to turn off friends online pop up and friends tournament actions. Not useful info.
Jan 26th 2021 10:51 •
Maminoue47 •
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pourriez vous installer le scrabble?
merci
Feb 20th 2021 9:30 •
recontact •
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@Maminoue47 : il faut créer un autre rapport pour demander l'ajout du scrabble
Feb 24th 2021 18:25 •
Big Dog •
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Sounds like a good idea.
Sep 11th 2021 20:22 •
trimall •
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Also, when some players stream their games on Twitch/YouTube, their friends may not want their names/IDs appearing in the stream's game log.
Nov 1st 2021 11:53 •
SilentNSly •
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Please give me an option to disable this.
Nov 16th 2021 19:54 •
Ninolia •
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Or just disable it inside all games for all. Who would possibly want that spam inside games? Possibly useful in the Games in progress &/ Play now pages.
Jan 2nd 2022 1:54 •
cigma •
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I don't agree with Ninolia: "disable it inside all games for all." Let the user choose, if they want it or not!
Mar 2nd 2022 20:37 •
dasist •
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This 1000x.
It's such a shame to have such a well implemented moves log only to have it spammed by the random activity of people coming online/offline.
In this day and age I'm either seeking a random game with people I don't know on BGA (very rare) or I'm connecting with friends or community members elsewhere to propose a game. In other words, I don't need BGA itself to act as the 'lobby', especially from inside of a game!!!!
May 3rd 2022 1:49 •
fufumdr •
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The friend connection info can be useful, but the game log is definitely a wrong place for it.
Even notification about one of the in-game players getting disconnected/reconnected would better be moved out of the log
e.g., replaced with some "un-plugged" icon blinking over currently disconnected player's avatars.
May 14th 2022 22:23 •
GTSchemer •
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This is still making it very unpleasant to have friends since it causes tons of log spam while trying to parse strategy game logs.
Jun 13th 2022 1:22 •
sedjtroll •
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PLUS ONE!
Please remove non-game-log activity from the game logs!
Jun 17th 2022 2:41 •
Mathew5000 •
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Strongly agree with GTSchemer's comment. Now when I get a friend request it makes me unhappy, because I either have to hurt someone's feelings by rejecting the request, or tolerate even more distractions in the game log.
Jun 25th 2022 14:34 •
yzemaze •
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If offering the requested option isn’t on the agenda please at least add a unique css-class to these status logs so we can use user-scripts, ad-blockers etc. to hide these entries.
Jul 13th 2022 6:26 •
ron_gametime •
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As MikeIsHere said:
Please turn this off for game logs.
X is online
X is offline
Y is online
X is online
Y is offline
X is online
X is offline
Y is online
X is online
Y is offline
X is online
X is offline
Y is online
X is online
Y is offline
Makes me want to not have friends...
Jul 13th 2022 15:22 •
Archduke •
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Report short description
"Option Button in Friends"
changed to
"Option to hide friend activity from game log"
Jul 14th 2022 17:40 •
GTSchemer •
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Agreed, a unique CSS class if nothing else would allow people to work around it. Ideally an option button like Archduke said.
Jul 18th 2022 3:03 •
GregoryFromEarth •
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Yes, anything to remove this annoyance from the game logs.
Jul 25th 2022 19:42 •
skoki •
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Please remove non-game-log activity from the game logs!
There is a special icon to see friends' status. Make that blink once when there is some changes.
But keep logs tidy. This is also about including group/tournament chat messages in the log - for big real-time tournaments you might not be able to see the player move at all, not mentioning the ton of sound notifications.
At least, add unique css ID/class to these messages.
Aug 2nd 2022 17:23 •
Joe •
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Adding my voice to this!
Aug 12th 2022 14:42 •
guustavf •
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Perhaps it could become a premium feature?
Aug 22nd 2022 18:30 •
aghagh •
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I did a friends' clean-up because of the excessive ammount of notifications. I'd find it very reasonable to be able to turn many friends' related notifications on and off.
Sep 7th 2022 20:16 •
pk5439 •
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Please implement this.
Sep 29th 2022 1:10 •
miklomike •
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I have deleted friends I routinely play with because they enter too many tournaments. I only want to see my own info on the main page, like results in MY tournaments that have ended, and posts from groups I am in.
Nov 6th 2022 3:19 •
gwarrack •
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I'm strongly considering removing the majority of my friends just to avoid these notifications. Please strongly consider removing these notifications, or at least adding an option to turn them off. If I want to know which friends are online, I'll open the friends drop-down.
Nov 19th 2022 19:50 •
Loutella •
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Please make this an option, I want to be able to see the list of past moves
Nov 19th 2022 21:33 •
Brocconel •
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Adding my voice to support this option of hiding or disabling BGA friends activity being listed in game logs, please.
Nov 23rd 2022 1:18 •
Pigeon34 •
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We will celebrate the 2 years anniversary of this bug report soon and still nothing? There is no reason at all to have friend activity in the Game Logs. Just delete it. This is a simple fix. I'm thinking about sending my resume to BGA just to do something like this story :
The first thing our new hire did was fix a bug that's been bugging him forever as a user prior to joining.
He then breathed a sigh of relief and submitted his two weeks' notice. wtf??
Jan 10th 2023 0:57 •
deejinlondon •
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Yes, completely agree with this suggestion.
Jan 12th 2023 23:17 •
Winn81 •
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Please implement this
Jan 13th 2023 13:09 •
tchobello •
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OMG, yes... one of the most annoying thing in BGA.
Jan 25th 2023 14:45 •
BiPeter •
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Plus 1! One of my wished implement on this site!
Feb 6th 2023 17:49 •
iElf •
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I would like to have the option to remove friends-updates from game logs. (If you have friends with weak connections it can really interfere with working out what's happened in multi-player games.) I frequently have to use F5, but I'd like it if I didn't have to. However, I note that the devs have rejected the previous suggestion of this feature, #25075: "rejected: Developers think that it is not a good idea or that the cost/benefit ratio is too high". I guess this feature is too deeply embedded? Oh well, F5 spamming it is...
Feb 17th 2023 17:28 •
Mr Zee •
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This is the number one thing that I would like to see get fixed. I've dropped friends because of this.
Mar 27th 2023 15:24 •
GTSchemer •
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I have continued to remove friends because of this. :( It actively works against the social aspect of the site, it spams game logs so much.
Mar 27th 2023 17:58 •
hammerin •
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Please implement this 'fix'.
Apr 18th 2023 14:28 •
yzemaze •
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It looks like sth. has changed since last June. Game-specific log entries now have the (apparently!) unique class log-replayable, therefore one can exclude all other messages with CSS like this:
#logs > .log:not(.log_replayable) {
display: none !important;
}
I haven’t thoroughly tested this, but #logs > should be enough insurance to prevent side effects.
Jun 4th 2023 16:38 •
valuecf •
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A simple toggle switch to allow sellection:
Include All Activity vs Current Game Only logs.
Jun 17th 2023 19:55 •
Livini •
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I don't even have (or want to have) friends on BGA, but I'd really like to see a 'Current Game Only logs' option like valuecf suggested. I sometimes get invitations to 'suggested games' while I'm already playing a different game, and it stresses me out.
Jul 5th 2023 15:23 •
Stuff by Bez •
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Yes, this makes the game log kinda useless and horrible if you have a lot of friends.
Sep 27th 2023 16:06 •
egburr •
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Unbelievable that someone had to create a chrome extension to implement this. Glad I use chrome!
Oct 8th 2023 21:32 •
Elonka •
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This is a very annoying thing, hot just for the constant messages, but because it's also telling me that people are online when they're not. I've been asking what they might be doing that is causing this, but they don't know. It will even happen when they are sound asleep! And if they're awake and talking to me, I'll be seeing it happen, and we're all mystified. They're not using multiple tabs, they're not on a mobile device, they're just in one tab, and it's on, off, on, off. As was mentioned above, it's miserable when I have a lot of friends, it's just a long scroll of useless information.
Oct 13th 2023 15:08 •
menettm •
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I would like to add new friends.
BUT with only one friend playing often in BGA, I receive in the log during each game made, messages about its different logins/logout. It is unbearable. :(.
So I don't add or request new friends in BGA !
An option must be made. It is possible because a developper have made a Chrome extension for that.
I don't understand hy it is not already in BGA.
Oct 28th 2023 19:34 •
aquila-sunrise •
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I would love thisf. I really don't care about seeing online/offline notices, nor can I even think of any scenario in which this information would be useful.
Nov 1st 2023 17:06 •
PetrGasparik •
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please let us turn it off
it clogs game log a lot
Nov 3rd 2023 17:49 •
Livini •
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I don't even have or want BGA friends and I get unwanted notifications too. Once or twice, I got a message that a random user (not my friend) was online, which was probably just a bug. But I also get spammed constantly with 'suggested' games, usually while I'm already playing a realtime game, which is completely at odds with BGA's karma system as well as just being annoying, invasive and stressful.
Here is my bug report for the suggested games if anyone else finds this annoying:
boardgamearena.com/bug?id=74107
Nov 6th 2023 2:40 •
Wolfstar50 •
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This is an absolutely awful 'feature'.
As a very new user of BGA I accepted a friend request from someone (my first friend) only to then keep seeing these notifications pop up constantly that they were online.
I became paranoid and thought they were stalking me!
Not only are these notifications distracting and annoying but made me avoid BGA due to my 'stalker'.
Nov 10th 2023 17:35 •
Meeple Mama •
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It's very distracting to see the notifications that a friend is online, etc. when you're in a game - especially if it's a new game that you're trying to learn and want to see specific moves of your opponents.
Nov 15th 2023 8:58 •
SkarNL •
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A quick tip to "fix" this.
On the preferences > advanced tab ( boardgamearena.com/preferences?section=advanced ), you can add your own custom CSS.
Adding the following will hide these player notifications:
.notif_playerstatus {
display:none!important;
}
Only downside is that these bug-pages won't work when you have custom CSS ... so you have to clear it if you want to add / reply to a bug.
Dec 20th 2023 2:30 •
KellzAB •
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3 years and over 50 reports with over 500 votes to at least have an option to remove "friend online/offline" notifications and NOT ONE developer reviewing this. Unacceptable.
Mar 2nd 2024 16:31 •
Impeccable Nonsense •
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This feature is sorely needed. The constant notifications are really annoying when you have a lot of friends.
Mar 19th 2024 19:32 •
SqueekyHT •
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I wonder if the devs understand that we are not objecting to having the friend info available, just that it doesn't belong in a game log.
Add it as part of our friend section, display it on a separate page, make it time out of the log after 5 minutes, limit it to only players at the current table or add a toggle in settings. If you're not on a game page, it shows in the General Messages. So, why can't it always be there?
There are multiple ways to solve this. They can't all be "not a good idea or the cost/benefit ratio is too high"
Mar 24th 2024 17:43 •
Jenn_P •
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As a new player who is learning the various games and the UI, these notifications are a distraction and a reason to avoid adding more friends.
Apr 21st 2024 17:32 •
Sventrapance •
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It's really annoying, you need a button to turn off friends activity
Apr 23rd 2024 4:00 •
ExaltedAngel •
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Agree, super annoying
Apr 25th 2024 12:01 •
flurric •
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Would be nice to see the team reviewing this important suggestion! ;-)
"Non-game-related" notifications should be handled separately (switched on/off or moved from game log to general log as an option)
Apr 27th 2024 22:23 •
Jonagill •
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I can see the value of these notifications for seeing if a player disconnects during a real-time game, but it's not necessary for asynchronous games and absolutely nonsensical that it shows the status of players who aren't even in the current game.