BGA Meta

After a lot of good feedback from the community, I've created a system that combines some of the functionality of forum folders and facebook groups. It's just the beginning of the system so there's more to add but the basic concept is that ANYONE with an account can create a topic. 

For example

Title: "Meetups in California"

Description: "If you live in California USA and want to meetup to play board games you can post here!"

If you make that topic, then anyone can start making posts in it and it's essentially creating a mini community. 

• If you are looking at a topic and create a post, it'll automatically link to that topic. 
• If you are in the general forum section and create a post, you can click the 'link to topic' button and search for a topic you'd like to link to.
• If you have already made a post in the past, you can click edit on it and then link to a topic to add it

For now, every topic is public and anyone can add posts to them. I'm considering making a feature that only lets the creator to add posts to them. If there's enough demand or a good reason for it, I'd be happy to add it in sooner.

Viewing Posts

The main forum will still function as usual as a way to have the most popular posts show up in one place, but now the forum header link is a dropdown menu to show All posts, New posts, Topics, and a few other ways to see information.

If you create a Topic that's popular enough I'll most likely add it as a link in that menu as well!

Future of Topics

Some of the ideas I have for the feature that I haven't completed are

• Private topics where only the user who made a topic can post to it
  
• Images to add to the topic (to personalize the look of them)
• A section on your profile to show the topics you made
• Adding topics to the search bar (not needed yet since there's only 8 to start). If more get added I'll absolutely make them searchable

If you have any other suggestions on how to improve topics, just let me know!

Go To Topics

Happy Monday!

After thinking about it throughout the past weeks, I've decided to put a temporary halt to the weekly challenges (at least for forum based ones). While I've enjoyed them and some of you have as well, I had one main reason:

It sits at an awkward spot where allowing too many entries ends up flooding the forum with posts that don't get as much traction (while also burying contributions by other content creators), and limiting the number of posts ends up getting too little traction and it loses its purpose. For the first, it's great to see participation, but I also don't want users to feel discouraged having zero comments on posts that they put a lot of effort into making. For the second, I personally liked that more but I still wonder if there could be a better method, especially when we already have the site-wide contribution based giveaways.

So for now, I'm thinking of two things:

1. Stop the usual forum based weekly challenges, but come up with challenges that will be non-forum based that we can do once in a while.

2. Think of ways to better highlight our usual site-wide contribution based giveaways and work on ways to further encourage users for participating.

Those are my thoughts so far. If the weekly challenges have been something that you really look forward to, then I apologize for stopping it with such a short notice. Please feel free to share your feedback in the comments and if you have any ideas for future non-forum based challenges, please suggest them below!

Couple of challenges I'm thinking of are:

1. Trick Shots - Users submitting a trick shot using board game components

2. Photography related

3. Challenges related to using more of the website's other features such as play logging, leaving reviews/ratings on game pages, etc.

I wanted to ask for feedback on a couple of ideas I've been brainstorming related to reviews on our game pages.

First, here's my thought process:

There are tons of different reviewers out there. Some are "professionals," some are regular folks. And just as I have content creators whose opinions resonate with me more, my ears perk up the most when I listen to the opinions of everyone in our forum, especially when it's from someone I share similar preferences with. I value opinions by people I trust and people I know well, and I often find that talking with everyone here is more dangerous for my wallet than any notable reviewer out there :D

With that said, here are some of my ideas:

First, I'd like the user reviews section of our game pages to be revamped and become more prominent. And I'd like it be one of the most compelling sections that will bring people back to search for games on Board Game Atlas.

Second, we have a feature for "following" users. I think it could be cool if the reviews/ratings left by the people we follow could be more highlighted among all other reviews. I'm not sure if this is really needed though. What I'd really like to see is the following.

Finding your match. When I look through user reviews on BGG or BGA, it's typically a mixed bag. Some call it terrible, some call it average, some call it best game ever. Which makes sense, after all--we're all different. And although you can find a common thread among those comments, it's not as accessible as I'd like it to be. So what if we were to determine everyone's "match" based on their lists (owned, wishlist, etc), the type of games the user mentions often, etc? I don't know how difficult this would be, but I'd love to see a user reviews page that displays each user's match with me, where I'd see something along the lines of "nealkfrank 92% match" "trentellingsen 68% match" and so on. This would guide my decision-making process and help me focus on the "right" reviews to look out for.

What do you think? Would you find this to be a helpful feature?

I've just finished adding a feature where you can subscribe to a game. That means whenever someone makes a post with that game linked, you'll get a notification so you can join in to the conversation!

I only got to spend about 30 minutes making the feature so far so it only works for comments but I wanted to share it so you can start using it! I'm planning on adding it to post descriptions as well and then upgrading the system to be smarter and better as time goes on if it gets used often.

Just say @username in a comment and replace "username" with whoever you want to mention!

Thanks for visiting! I hope you will find your time here worthwhile. Summarized below are helpful tips and guidelines you can find as a first-time user or veteran users who may have been missing out on some cool features. I will be revisiting this every now and then to update whenever there are changes on the website.

Before we start...

Let's get you situated first. If you're here to check out what we're about and don't want to make an account just yet, feel free to move onto the next section below! For those who are interested, you can make an account with your email and I'll explain some helpful info and tips before you move on.

First, see where your username is on the blue top bar? Hover over your username (or click on the button on the top left corner on mobile) and you can find the first step toward personalizing your account:

Your Account

• Profile - Here you can find an overview of your account history and get access to our avatar library. Avatars are purchased using gold coins you earn for each contribution you make to the community through creating discussion and adding info to the game pages.
• Messages - Send direct messages to the friends you make on Board Game Atlas.
• Dark Mode - There's dark mode! Don't know about you, but I've been on the Dark Side 100% of the time ever since this feature got added.
• Settings - Set your preference for email notifications on replies to your posts/comments, posts from users you follow, price alerts, etc.
• Price Alerts - Manage the list of games you've turned price alerts on for.
• Notifications - Notifications for replies, activity by users or games you follow, price alerts, etc.

Lastly, if you have an account at BGG and wish to sync up your account, go to BGG Import on the top bar and you can avoid all the hassle of reentering past data.

So what are the main features on Board Game Atlas?

Here you will find:

• A Forum community where you can discuss your favorite games using helpful tools.
• A "wiki-like" database of board games and user ratings and reviews.
• Price comparison across numerous online stores and price alerts.

Let's dive into more details behind each of these.

Forum Community

This is the space for you to discuss all things board game related. Here are some things to be aware of before you jump in:

• General forum structure
• How to create your first post
• What are upvotes? What about downvotes?
  
• What are all these @'s and #'s?
• Subscribe to your favorite content
• Additional information
  

General Forum Structure

Our forum structure is most similar to Reddit, if you're familiar with that platform. We have threaded discussions and allow "upvotes" for users to express how much they like another user's post or comment. We also have topic pages which are essentially traditional forum folders that you can create. So if you want to start a series of posts on Board Game Art, you can create a topic page and then start making posts that are linked to that topic. Currently, topic pages created are public and any users will be able to make posts linked to the page. In the future, we may allow the option for creating private topic pages that can only be edited by users you specify.

After creating your topic page, you can add a description for others to understand what type of posts belong to this page.

How To Create Your First Post

1. There are various types of posts you can create: A regular forum post with text only, an image post, a link post, and a poll post. Besides the regular post, all other types of posts allow you to include an optional text description.

You can also click on the circled link (see image below) to write up an article like I'm doing now. The articles written by users are curated on this page, while articles written by BGA staff are curated here.

2. Self-explanatory but this area is where you include a title for your post. Please remember to make it as descriptive as possible to clue others in on the purpose of your post. When making a link post, this section will provide a suggested title which you can choose to edit.

3. I've briefly mentioned this earlier but all forum posts can be linked to a topic page and/or game page(s). This is what you'll see when you click on "Link to Game" and search "Frosthaven":

After linking to the appropriate game(s) and making your post, you will be able to see your post listed on the game page below the game info. See image below for posts linked to Frosthaven:

While we're on the subject of game pages, you can also add related YouTube videos onto the game pages. Scroll down to the videos section and click on the "+" sign shown below. Submit your video link and you will immediately see the results.

Lastly, you can also choose the flair, which allows you to specify the type of your content as a "review," "DIY," "gameplay," and so on. Now you're all ready to make your first post.

What are Upvotes? What about Downvotes?

You will notice gray arrow symbols next to each post and comment in the forum. These arrows are used for "upvotes," and the way we use them is equivalent to a Facebook "like". In general, a post with more upvotes will place higher on the page relative to other posts, bringing the community's most popular content to the top of the front page. So if you see any post or comment that resonates with you, give the user an upvote as a sign of approval! (Once you click on the gray arrow, it'll get highlighted blue to indicate you've thrown your upvote).

You may ask then, "where are the downvotes"? If you're familiar with Reddit, downvotes are used for the purpose of self/community moderation. It's to express that certain content is not appropriate for the community or is off-topic. For Board Game Atlas, we made the decision to leave out this option. And while this comes with its own set of consequences, we will see where this leads us and ask for your feedback in the future if you see any recurring problems in the community.

What are all these @'s and #'s?

These are the features that will make it easier for you to have fun talking about board games, rather than spending time grabbing links for more info.

• @ - If you want to tag a fellow user, type in @ in the comment box, start typing in the username, and you will see a list of options you can click on. Once you select the username, the username you want to tag will come up highlighted in blue. This user will receive a notification after you submit your comment or post.
• # - If you want to tag a game page, type in # in the comment box, start typing in the game title, and you will see a list of options you can click on. Once you select the game title, the game page you want to tag will come up highlighted in blue. Other users will be able to click on this link if they want to find out more about the game.

Please note that this feature is still in need of improvement. While it does its job most of the time, it doesn't yet have the ability to recognize empty spaces, so instead of typing in "#Architects of the West Kingdom," you should type in "#architects" and find the game in the list. This also means that in rare instances, a keyword that's too common may require you to try a more unique keyword so that you don't get a long list of games to sort through.

Subscribe to Your Favorite Content

Is there a game or specific users you'd like to keep up with for content updates? Click on the subscribe button for the games on your radar or "follow" your friends on Board Game Atlas.

Additional Information

These are regularly scheduled content in the forum for general discussions:

• Monday - What did you play this week?
• Wednesday - Recommend a game
• Thursday - Game Trade Thursday
• Friday - Feedback Friday, Kickstarters Ending

Of these, Feedback Friday is by far the most valuable. So please make sure to share on that post for any of your annoyances, bugs, wish features, and any other topics you believe would be beneficial to the community. Your feedback is what led to all these changes over the past year, so we're grateful!

Lastly, please feel free to send a direct message to either me or Trent for any other questions. If you go back to the last image I shared, click on the "Send a Message" text right next to the "Follow" button if you want to send a DM (to me or Trent though, not Skurvy5).

Search Engine and "Wiki-Like" Database

There's a lot to look at so I won't go into too many details. But do take a look at all of the default options available on the top bar:

• Games - You can look up games filtered by trending, popularity, complexity, mechanisms, and more. Note that Roll and Write or other options may not bring up as many results as you might expect if the applicable game pages are missing data. 
• Deals - Find games at their historically lowest prices and other daily deals.
• Kickstarters - Here's where we track current Kickstarter campaigns and their progress.

Other important info:

• We currently use a 5-star rating. The ratings you see on the game pages with the colored background are simply converting the average rating to a point system out of 100.
• Complexity rating will get added onto the pages soon. The current plan is to allow users to input two different ratings, one for rule complexity and another for gameplay complexity.
• When you search for a game, the results will display games associated with the key term as well as related forum posts.
• Users with an account can freely update existing game pages or add new ones. Similar to Wiki, previous versions can be restored in the case of reported errors.
• Users with an account can click on the symbol shown in the image below to quickly assign games to lists.

Pro Tip:

• If you want to go on a rampage adding a bunch of missing data on game pages but don't know where to start, check out Fix a Bounty Game on the bottom most section of the website.
• When searching for games, you can use keywords like "Family," "Area Control," "Worker Placement," and other terms related to game categories or mechanics. Once you've done this, click on the appropriate option on the suggested list and this can be a convenient and faster way to look up specific types of games. We will be adding a similar option for allowing search by designers, artists, and publishers.

Price Comparison

This is the most dangerous section of our website. We offer various ways to help you find the best deals for the games you want:

• Prices across various online stores listed on the game page, in addition to historical price data to help you decide whether the current sale is worth it.
• Deals pages such as "Historic Lows" that keep track of all games that are currently at its lowest ever price.
• Price alerts on individual games that's on your radar or on your entire game list.

That's It!

Well that's enough from me. Have at it and let us know how you feel about everything!

Thanks, Phil and Trent

This is a question for @trentellingsen and @philryuh, I guess. Do upvotes play a role in sorting of hot posts or comments, like they do on reddit?

Just curious.

For those who are new, this is a weekly post where you can share your praises/complaints/wish features for our forum, game pages, content, etc. So, have at it and let us know your thoughts! Late post due to recovering from a cold :)

For this week, I'd also like to throw out this question--how would you feel about me pinning the weekly "What Did You Play This Week" post to be up at the top? A lot of you seem to go back to that post to just update what you've been playing throughout the week, so does it seem better to keep it at the top? I feel like this could be good especially once Trent adds in a feature to allow image commenting so that it's fun to do quick shares of game pictures/moments, while everyone can still choose to do an entirely new post to go into longer details about their night.

On another note, reminder that the current giveaway is ending tonight!

• Hit interview #50+--I'm currently at somewhere around #22
• I'd like to get in a solid theme onto the website--a mascot, a shopkeeper for avatar library, forum bot, error page, etc where it will be like a world-building process playing off the idea of Atlas, exploration, maybe even a Kingdom Hearts-like idea of an explorer of different board game universes? As long as it doesn't come off as obnoxious/cliche'd
• Catch up to Board Game Prices level of traffic by mid 2020 (organic traffic is basically the ones where people find you on google). We own BGP, so it's all good, but I'd like to see BGA catch up. BGP's organic numbers are currently about 10x BGA's
• Special events--could be a charity/support program where BGA will donate games to communities, or when our revenue has gone way up, maybe it could even be us purchasing and giving away 100 copies of a game to support a particular designer. Ever since I started my interviews, I've been getting more and more of the desire to promote industry professionals. We could even try something like providing an all-expenses paid trip to have a designer come join me and Trent and spend some time to do a live interview, game playthrough, etc. It'd be nice if we could do something like that with a forum user too

Over the last 2 weeks, I've been working on improving the look and feel of the website to feel more like the same brand with coloring and styling. What do you think? There's a new header, link colors, and button colors.

If you want to get notified when people comment on a forum post that interests you, just click subscribe!  It's right next to the # of comments | edit | delete | report section. Just above the top level reply text box.

All feedback welcome :)

Got praises/complaints/wish features for our forum, game pages, content creation, etc? Let us know here.

Also, what are your thoughts on the new "topics" feature? Like? Dislike? Meh? Intuitive to use?

This is a weekly post where you leave your suggestions and feedback for Board Game Atlas! Some things to think about are:

• Feature requests (be creative, think wild!)
• What sort of content would you like to see by Board Game Atlas? (we currently do interviews and news coverage. Anything else you'd be interested in?)
• How can we make your experience here even better?
• Mention your favorite/least favorite feature
• Suggestions for industry professionals to interview (designers/artists/publishers/content creators/etc.)
• Bugs/annoyances

Also, I have two questions for everyone:

• Home page - How should we change it to look less like a store? How can we make it look lively to indicate there's an active community?
• Profile page - What sort of features would you like to see that's useful? (customizable profile page, ability to combine different users' lists, helping you pick out a game from your list of owned games based on certain criteria, etc.)

One last thing--The giveaway ends on Sunday at 9 PM PST! Thanks for everyone participating and I will do my best to make the next one even more lively :) 

For those who are new, this is a weekly post where you can share your praises/complaints/wish features for our forum, game pages, content, etc. You can also find more information in this article where I walk through the various features on BGA.

Since I've already made several posts throughout this week asking for feedback, I really don't have a specific question in mind. So please feel free to let us know any of your thoughts below!

For those who are new, this is a weekly post where you can share your praises/complaints/wish features for our forum, game pages, content, etc. So, have at it and let us know your thoughts!

How do you feel about the recent changes made by @trentellingsen? Specifically, there have been changes to simplify the home page, the presentation of the "all games" pages has been revamped, searching for a game will bring up related forum posts, and game ratings/scores have been changed to be easily distinguishable. There are a number of improvements to come next week such as adding complexity ratings!

For those who are new, this is a weekly post where you can share your praises/complaints/wish features for our forum, game pages, content, etc. So, have at it and let us know your thoughts!

Also, I read through everyone's inputs on last week's post about the forum structure. @trentellingsen and I will talk and see how we can improve the experience in the future.

As for me... I'd love to see a revamp of two main things:

1. Revamp the play log feature for ease of use and add interesting statistics to look at/share.
2. Game page - first, adjust the design/layout to be more efficient use of space and to show better hierarchy of info. Especially from PC, I'd like to be able to see all of the crucial info in one screen without needing to scroll so much. When you search for a game, I'd like it to take you straight to the game's page when you click on the suggested game title. Also, a game page doesn't show all of the pictures that users have added and some of the buttons don't work for "scrolling" to see the rest of them. Add weight/complexity ratings for rules vs. gameplay, and make this info prominent. I'm sure there are more, but I'd just love to see a revamped game page that will make me go to BGG less for info.

The main things that I go to BGG for are the following: 

1. Reviews - This is very User Driven so I will be doing my best to provide reviews for the games that I've played on BGA. 
2. Used Pricing - When I'm interested in a game, I try to see if I can get that at a decent price used either through the Geek Market, Auctions, or Ebay. Not sure if BGA gives alerts when items are back in stock for retail, but that is useful. Also, notifications for new listings in the used field would be fantastic! I'm not sure if BGG has a way for you to subscribe to 'new listings' in the geekmarket, but if they do it's probably kinda clunky like most things on there. Happy to hear that BGA will be implementing a market for users to sell games. In addition, a "sort by state, city" section would be AWESOME!!!!! One of the issues with buying used games come from shipping, which takes a great deal and makes it equal, sometimes more, than a new game. Having the 'sort by local' feature will help see what games are being sold locally at any given time. 
3. Auctions - Love this feature on BGG. Granted, took me a while to figure it out, but you know, clunky. Auctions on here would be great :) 
4. Forums - the forums on here already look better. I think links to folders for the forums for each game would be great. BGG has this divided pretty well (ish).

I'm sure there might be some other things, but I know a lot of this is user driven so keep it up, Trent and team. you guys are doing great. Remember that BGG has been around for 20 years, so it may take a minute or two to get some things going. The important thing is that you're listening and that matters!

For those who are new, this is a weekly post where you can share your praises/complaints/wish features for our forum, game pages, content, etc. So, have at it and let us know your thoughts!

Also, several questions I have for you all are:

• How do you feel about the picture/gif commenting that got added recently?--I personally love it and will be adding in some of the pictures you've been posting if it's appropriate for the respective game pages (if it hasn't been done already).
• How do you feel about the pinned "What Did You Play This Week" post? This is the first week we've tried this so I wanted to see if you liked it or not. Are there other weekly posts you'd like to see pinned? "Game Trade Thursday" is one that comes to mind.although it will likely see much less traction (at the same time, it won't see traction since it gets buried pretty quickly. Also, keep in mind that this post is a stopgap until Trent implements a marketplace feature)

Ok, so I forgot to make my usual Feedback Friday post so I'm making it now haha

Pardon the title because I'd rather keep things consistent and it's going to bother me having one post that sticks like a sore thumb!

For those who are new, this is a weekly post where you can share your praises/complaints/wish features for our forum, game pages, content, etc. So, have at it and let us know your thoughts!

I also like to throw out a question to get discussion going, and here's this week's:

How do you feel about the current lineup of weekly "automated" posts? Is it helpful for starting up discussions? Are there any we should change, add, or get rid of? Below are all of the weekly posts.

• Monday - What Did You Play This Week by BGAForumBot (I'll give you a special avatar some day buddy) - seems like the number of comments on this post has been going up with every week so our bot is doing a mighty fine job on this one.
• Tuesday - Questions for Our Next Podcast by me - I need to do a better job being consistent with these posts or make it automated haha
• Wednesday - Nothing
• Thursday - Nothing
• Friday - Feedback Friday posts by me and Kickstarter Roundup by BGAForumBot

Many users have requested @trentellingsen to add a weekly post for trades/marketplace for our users. If added, this will only be a stopgap until the official Marketplace feature is added onto BGA.

Got praises/complaints/wish features for our forum, game pages, content creation, etc? Let us know here.

All feedback welcome :)

Got praises/complaints/wish features for our forum, game pages, content creation, etc? Let us know here.

For this week, I'd especially love to get your feedback on something that Trent and I have been thinking about. Although BGA has been growing consistently, time and money are our biggest limitations to growing faster and implementing all of our crazy ideas (full disclosure: Trent is on BGA full-time and receives minimum wage while I juggle a full-time job in addition to doing half-time on BGA with minimum wage--and we're hoping to continue as long as possible without going under lol). Because of this, we are thinking of setting up a way for us to receive donations that will directly shape the website and for us to continue to build something awesome together. Couple of thoughts/things to figure out are:

• To have complete transparency on what sort of items will get implemented when funding is reached (along with a realistic deadline and goal amount)
• What sort of goals should these be? It feels odd to set something like "BGA App Implementation" or "Revamping the Play Log Process" as goals when we'll eventually get to these anyway
• Should it be like Patreon style where you set one major item(s) per funding goal? Or displaying a list of items that will change in priority according to which receives the most amount of support from users?
• Maybe not just setting practical goals, but having rewards for donations? (allowing some level of profile or avatar customization?)

I'm sure there are way more things to think about but wanted to start getting everyone's inputs. Really appreciate everyone for making this community great and please know that we won't start strangling everyone for money xD

Edit: Oh and also, don't forget that the current round of giveaway will end 11/26! Good luck to everyone and let's see if there's an upset this time :)

All feedback welcome :)

Got praises/complaints/wish features for our forum, game pages, content creation, etc? Let us know here.

The latest feature updates were for tagging users and subscribing to forum posts. Trent got the first versions in quickly and while he'll be working on improving these features, let us know if you experience an obvious bug.

Trent is also working on one of my requests for a profile preview that will come up when hovering over a username. It'll display the user's avatar (a little bigger than the usual) and other basic info. Here are couple of thoughts I had for this feature:

• Easily accessible snapshot of user's profile - things like avatar image, username, maybe the user's number of coins
• Display the title of your favorite game
• Something for content creators--link to your social or latest blog post or article post on BGA
• Maybe--show the title of the game you most recently play logged
• Maybe--show link to your most recent review that you gave on BGA's game page

It will probably be too much info at some point (although good use of icons might help to make it intuitive) but let me know what you think about this idea!

This is a weekly post where you leave your suggestions and feedback for Board Game Atlas! Think feature requests, suggestions to make your experience here even better, people you'd like me to interview, etc.

Here are some updates my my end:

• Uploaded two interviews this week: (1) Justin Hillgrove, artist of Battle of the Bards and other games produced by his company Junk Spirit Games, and (2) Daniel Lieske, creator of The Wormworld Saga, an online graphic novel sensation that was also adapted into a board game (and was nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres 2017)
• Received permission from Roxley for Dice Throne avatars (not live yet)
• Waiting on Alderac Entertainment Group to send me files for avatars of their games
• Currently have five more sets of interview questions to prepare (names you may recognize are Jonathan Ying, Vincent Dutrait, and Xavier Collette)

This will be a weekly post to leave your suggestions and feedback for Board Game Atlas! Some things to think about are:

• Feature requests (be creative, think wild!)
• What sort of content would you like to see by Board Game Atlas? (we currently do interviews and news coverage. Anything else you'd be interested in?)
• How can we make your experience here even better?
• Mention your favorite/least favorite feature
• Suggestions for industry professionals to interview (designers/artists/publishers/content creators/etc.)
• Bugs/annoyances

Also, a few updates since last week:

• Slight changes in formatting to show better previews of forum posts
• Youtube video uploads on the forum can now be viewed directly on Board Game Atlas
• You can now post images (previously, it was just a regular text-based forum post or a link post only)
• Upcoming feature (to be added within the next few days): creating polls for forum posts!

Thanks in advance for any feedback!

EDIT: The polls are up! Trent (u/trentellingsen) finished it much faster than I thought haha. We're starting with a basic poll structure first that gives up to (4) options. In the future, if everyone wants it, we can change it to accommodate more options and/or even allowing users to add additional options. Thanks Trent!

Yay or nay?

Adding reactions - I feel an upvote isn't adequate enough. Maybe having options for thumbs up, like, love, laughing, etc.? Any other types of reactions you can think of that's good for a board games forum?

Adding ability to do quick polls - doing quick polls for your top game, best worker placement, clash of two similar but different games, etc.

Feel free to pitch in any other ideas!

For those who are new, this is where you can share your feedback on all things related to Board Game Atlas. You can also find more information in this article where I walk through the various features on BGA.

You can also feel free to answer these questions:

• What are your thoughts on the revamped game page format?
• Which game rating system would you prefer? 5 star? 10 point scale? 100 point scale?
• What are your main complaints about anything on the website?

Thanks as always everyone and have a great weekend! :)

A few weeks ago I got a very serious warning at BGG for saying that I believe all lives matter and not only black. This was my second warning after writing a few months back that I am willing to play all kind of games, even those that include sensitive topics like slaves, war, etc. in a joyful fashion.

I am tired of that. Of not being able to express myself and being silenced (posts erased and no trace of them left on the original thread, so that the illusion of uniformity does not shatter) each time I post a disenting opinion about certain issues.

I wanted to know whether I would face the same issues here or if BGA team is more tolerant with us non-SJW.

Cheers!

This would be especially helpful for "news" related posts. In updating my post about the upcoming #Dune: Imperium game, I found myself wishing I could have a comment or two "pinned" to the top, so that updates didn't get lost in newer comments from people discussing what they were reading. And now that I've added another update in the form of a new comment, it'd be especially nice to have that pinned now that the initial attention on the post has died down. Even if OP had the ability to pin a max of one comment, I think that would be quite useful. Maybe admins/mods could pin more.

Post in question: https://www.boardgameatlas.com/forum/VTwcBdsYLm/dune-imperium-first-look-#pUvIlrm8st

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Hi there,

Potential bug found. 

I was looking at @1nf1n1ty's owned game list and if I attempt to change the sort order it brings me to the general board game search results.

Thanks.