Beta now has a “prototype” of a new feature I’ve been calling “Challenge Links”.
The basic idea is that you can get a URL for a challenge that you have created, and send it to another person, who can use that URL to find and accept the challenge.
You can get the link to open challenges from the Play page.
Anyone with the URL can “visit/click” the URL to get to a dialog that will let them accept it.
If they aren’t an OGS user and they proceed, they will be created a Guest account to play with.
There are some help popups for guests like this. These are very early work, but feedback is welcome.
If the person is logged out, but they are a member, they can log-in on the way in.
You can mark a Challenge “invite only”. This means that it won’t show up in the Play page, instead it shows up on your home page … and only people with the URL (but anyone with the URL) can accept.
Challenge Links work for Rengo. When you “accept” using the URL it joins you into a team.
There should be a zillion ways to break this, because it is quite complicated under the hood:
There are permutations of all these parameters that need to work:
Rengo/Not Rengo
Logged in/Not Logged in
Member/Not member
Login via account
Login via SSO
Invite-Only or Open
Testing welcome, much appreciated.
I’ll start a bug list in this post, once you start reporting them
Bugs:
Something odd about “waiting for rengo players” even if it is not a rengo challenge.
- Doh, don’t show the “manage” button for non-rengo games!
No “Challenge accepted (link copied)” dialogs for invite-only rengo live challenges
It should tell you if the link “expired” (probably due to game started, or challenge being removed)
Critical: guests can’t change their password
Sometimes an invite link returns null
Invite only challenges not appearing on home page
The dialog on the accept page should tell you if it’s a Rengo game - that label is missing. fixed
“TypeError: Cannot use ‘in’ operator to search for ‘right-nav-help’ in undefined”. should be fixed?
Very exciting new feature! Tried to break it a bit:
I tried accepting this rengo challenge when not logged in and got a big popup “TypeError: Cannot use ‘in’ operator to search for ‘right-nav-help’ in undefined”.
Also I don’t see any of the invite-only challenges on my home page.
Mmm - I guess these will be the topics of some discussion and experimentation eh.
The search bar is only one click away on a phone - and not even a click on the desktop: I wouldn’t call that “deep” …and of course there’s the upside of how clean it all looks as a result.
But I can see that these sorts of things are the reason why it’s not rolled out as “done” already.
Ah well, I guess I better get on with putting invite-only’s in the old Home page
Heh heh I suspect this is all part of the “darn, GaJ was using the new Home but the testers have the old Home”.
I see that you have Invite-only checked.
When “nothing happened”, it should have said “Challenge Created [OK]” and “Challenge Link Copied”
You’re expected to paste the copied link in your email to your friend, and navigate to your home page if you want to look at your invite-only challenge. Which you can’t currently see unless you’re on the experimental setting
Now that you already have two open live challenges, you’re stuck because you can’t delete them because they’re on the Home page where you can’t see them
Yeah I can’t get that to work, on Chrome or safari. It seems like there’s some console error possibly preventing it.
When I look at challenges I see the following and when I click manage, there’s a “Waiting for Rengo players” even though it’s not Rengo. However if I try to join my own challenge then it tells me it doesn’t exist.
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