I’d like the option to disable the “last game” widget and the new buttons on the home screen. I go to the home screen to look at my current running games, which are significantly displaced due to the amount of space these new additions take up. I also don’t see the point. If I want to review the last game I played, I can just go to my profile and click it from there. If I want to play a new game, I can go to the “play” page. In my opinion, these use cases are not so frequent that they deserve a spot in this prime location.
Widget-based home screens can be nice but if you go this route, I think it’s mandatory to make it highly configurable, so that we can personalize our home screens with information and buttons we actually want to see.
I agree that it should be an option. It may be useful for those who use the buttons often, but for people like me who almost play only correspondence games, it is more of a distraction. I also don’t need the “Review Last Game” option because I will review them on the spot.
Even just a slight reorganisation would be better. My active games are more likely to have me click on them than the last game I played, so they should be closer to the top.
Agreed. On desktop, it appears that things are randomly placed on a blank page with big empty spaces between the content. Active games should at least be at the top, not the bottom. If people found getting to past games too difficult with the old layout, maybe they could appear below active games on the home page, possibly as a list rather than one large board view.
totally agree – it means i have to scroll down each time to see whether it’s my turn on active games – and even after “reviewing” the last game the image is still taking up most of my screen on the home page for no reason at all – please, please do something about this – generally OGS has an excellent GUI, but for me this is a complete PITA
This is a great improvement. And on narrow screens when things need to get stacked vertically on top of each other, if all three must appear, I would order them “Active Games”, then the play buttons, then “Ended Games.“ However, I would prefer to only have “Active Games” displayed on narrow screens.
So instead of having one page whose main content is starting new games, and one page whose main content is the active games, both easily accessible with one click in the menu, we now have two pages whose main content is starting new games, and zero whose main content is the active games? Brilliant! More friction is just what this game need!
I came into the forum just to make this point. The new home screen is much harder to use for me, particularly on mobile.
I currently only play correspondence games on OGS. When I open OGS, I want to see my games. That is far and away the most important thing. It is 99% of my usage of OGS.
Right now, what I see is I see a game that ended a week ago (which I already reviewed a week ago) and a bunch of buttons for functions that already have their own page (which I only use once every month or so).
I can understand that this new layout could be great for live-game players, but for correspondence players, putting our active games third-place behind buttons for new games and reviewing old games makes no sense.
Please either add options to configure the home screen layout, or add a new “active games” page. Or both.
when I go to site from forum, mouse cursor is exactly on this button, If I accidentally click twice, it will be pressed.
I now feel constant fear of pressing it when on home page or when go to home page and have to be uncomfortably cautious.
I think we also need to be able to dismiss the last game after reviewing it. Even when it’s nice to click on it thinking “Oh, yeah I should look at that”, I certainly don’t want a reminder to do that more than once…
just chiming in to lend a bit more weight to this post - it makes zero sense to have three buttons(which are redundant due to the ‘play’ tab) and an old game (which i can’t dismiss even after i’ve reviewed it) take up so much real estate at the top of the Home page instead of my active games (which i now have to scroll to see). i appreciate the enthusiasm for constant refinement, but this was NOT an upgrade…
