I mean is there a practical use for it? It seems to me that it takes up a lot of valuable space on the page which could be used for something more important.
I’ve been thinking of a suggestion, for development would it be possible to make the Play page the homepage, remove this non-useful square (above) and replace it with the user’s game challenges and the notifications that OGS provides about streams, and tournaments, etc. that appear on the homepage? I feel combining these two pages would be a much better use of space and would reduce the amount of redundancy and increase the efficiency of pages.
Considering the description of that chart in the link you provided, I find it unnecessary and, as I mentioned before, taking up valuable space that could be used for something else.
I agree that the graph is pretty useless since it basically duplicates the list of challenges. Also it somewhat ruins the “hide ranks” feature.
However, maybe it’d be important to be able to sort challenges, for example by likely game time or opponent strength or board size, which I guess is what the graph does.
What would be great is for all the elements on the home and profile pages be toggleable, scalable, and draggable, so we can all have the layout we want
Maybe default to the play page of you have no games in progress? I think one issue is that when you first start on OGS you are greeted with a blank page that helpfully inform you that you are not playing any games. The only reason I can think not to start on the play page in that case is that it makes no sense to a beginner!
On mobile, for a correspondence player, it’s quite useful.
Actually it’s everything I need and the only page I regularly check between moves in open games.
But on mobile then you could also just use the profile page? Just the ranking stuff to scroll past (maybe that could all be shifted to under games if you select “hide ranks”) plus it has game history info right there too. What does home page add? Only notifications?
unlike the profile page it uses the whole width of the screen and so looks much cleaner than the profile page on desktop
but that’s a particularly niche issue since if I wasn’t a mod I would have ratings hidden…
