After being a supporter for years, I am going to have to leave.

[shinuito]

@CosmicJoke

I feel like on a smaller server like this, scrapping the whole concept of automatch and funneling everyone into custom games would be superior to having this middle ground of many disjoint automatch queues.

I kind of disagree. If you just watch the custom challenge page for a few minutes, often while you’re reading a challenges details, the byo-yomi, whether there’s handicap, is it ranked, a lot of the time I find the challenge has jumped up or down a lot in the list before I’ve processed the settings, or in some case the challenge has disappeared.

I think with strict filters on what you want you can cut down on some reading, unless you’re happy to play both handicap or no, different board sizes etc.

This is of course, without the merging the steady flow of automatch games in this already quite dynamic custom game list.

It’ll only get worse the more games are there without something like

@Feijoa

I think it would look better if we sorted the oldest game offers to the top where they can be relatively stable and also attract needed attention, while the bottom of the list jumps around a lot but can be ignored.

You could arbitrarily cut down on the noise by hiding offers that are less than x seconds old. A CSS fade-in might also help it look less jumpy.

@CosmicJoke

Why stop at making byo-yomi or Fischer flexible? We could do that with board size, game speed and everything else, unify the disjoint queues as much as the players are willing to.

See

@anoek

For what it’s worth the backend is now done for supporting multiple settings, and it is the plan to update the UI to support multiple selections of acceptable times, though I’m still trying to figure out the best way of presenting that in a way that’s not too complicated.