Two Suggestions Related to Correspondence Games

[ArsenLapin1]

@jlt

(BTW I am not the player you are talking about (I generally play more than 1 move/day), but if I don’t answer immediately despite that you programmed conditional moves, it’s not because of the way “auto-advance” works, but because I don’t want to play impulsively.)

No problem. I normally don’t mind my opponents’ playing speeds. The reason I noticed in this game in particular was because it was a long sequence of forcing moves and they kept waiting for their time to nearly run out before they played the next atari. It didn’t feel like they were taking their time to think about the game, quite the opposite. I’m guessing they didn’t even notice that I had autoplayed the responses.

@jlt

I think the “next game” is the most urgent one, i.e. the one with the least remaining time.

I don’t think so. See for instance these quotes from anoek:

@anoek

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, it’d be a good setting. The code is here if anyone wants to take a crack at it: https://github.com/online-go/online-go.com/blob/devel/src/components/Notifications/Notifications.tsx#L215-L250

@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. Currently the average number of games that correspondence players have going on at any one time is about 10, which makes me think the current sorting system is a good default. But yeah once you get 50, 100, 200 games going at once, sort by time seems like it’d make the most sense.