Prioritize Urgent Games in Auto-Advance/Next Game Button

[yebellz]

Currently, it is my turn to move in all 4 of my correspondence games. Here is how much time left I have in each (for most urgent to least):

A: 7 hr 47 min
B: 8 hr 58 min
C: 9 hr 48 min
D: 10 hr 43 min

Clicking on the number near the top-right of the website, brings me to game C first, then B, D, and finally A. Playing a move in game C, just now, brought me to game B. Then, playing in game B, brought me to D. Finally, playing in game D brought me to A.

I know it’s been brought up many times in the forums before, but I thought it was eventually changed such that the most urgent games should be shown first?

[_KoBa]

I think mods have plans to do something about it, but it sure has taken some time

[Lys]

@yebellz

I thought it was eventually changed such that the most urgent games should be shown first?

Really?

[yebellz]

I guess I misremembered, and just assumed since this suggestion has been made in the past.

Here is a discussion from one of the last time this issue was brought up:

(Correspondence) What algorithm does OGS follow when choosing which game to play next?

We look at the current game you’re on, then pick the next game it’s your move on based on game ID. I always kinda liked that solution because it gives a way to hop on and do one move for every game you’re in, then log off… that way if there’s one or two other people on making moves right away on your shorter correspondence games, those games don’t keep popping up while you’re cycling through your games. Though I certainly wouldn’t object to someone making an option to progress a different way, i…

In the follow-up posts @anoek does even say:

@anoek

Yes I agree, I can certainly see the desire for sorting by time which is why I’d be happy to accept a pull request to add that in as an option.

But I guess no one actually made any changes.