Great job. Looks good and usefull.

After a quick look :

The idea of a link to the open games in the info tab is a good idea but it should not include tournament games, as it's not possible to join them.

In the view section, clicking on Favorite Boards does nothing.

Even not classic games have the tag Classic.

Some board have no top line in the overview (for example Spy vs Spy)

When on the Board Designer list page (or the Review list page) there are still the links to Board List/Favorite Boards/Beta Boards in which clicking on the Favorite or Beta just takes you to the new Board page but doesn't actually honor any of those (ie it takes you to your default view/filters).

Ooooh and could Review boards be added to this new page for the Review crew?  That'd be cool!

What's a good example of an Advanced board?

PS.  How long should it take before Viper's new Brawl! board shows up in the Board list?  I'm not seeing it yet, even with refreshes.

I think popularity should subtract the number of tournament games, or perhaps not count them as highly, and take recent activity into account.  Most games started per day in the last month on this board, then graph the months over time and consider the slope to show popularity in real time.

my 2 cents on popularity - 

Base it on # of people that played the board, and not on number of games.

Basing it on the number of games rewards few players/fast boards.   

Amidon37 wrote:

my 2 cents on popularity - 

Base it on # of people that played the board, and not on number of games.

Basing it on the number of games rewards few players/fast boards.   

So each person that played the board would only count as 1 even if they had played the board 50+ times?

I don't disagree that it promotes few players/fast boards...of course the top 10ish are made up of Risk boards, Europe, USA, World War, and Medieval Europe all normally played with a fairly big group of players.

Why can't popularity just be simple, as in Games Played (Public, Tournaments, Teams, even Private IMO, but games that have completed and not Terminated).  Add something else if want a more "real time" view.

Yertle wrote:

PS.  How long should it take before Viper's new Brawl! board shows up in the Board list?  I'm not seeing it yet, even with refreshes.

Tis there now.

anything on the IE7 verticle displaying?

Yertle wrote:

Amidon37 wrote:

my 2 cents on popularity - 

Base it on # of people that played the board, and not on number of games.

Basing it on the number of games rewards few players/fast boards.   

So each person that played the board would only count as 1 even if they had played the board 50+ times?

I don't disagree that it promotes few players/fast boards...of course the top 10ish are made up of Risk boards, Europe, USA, World War, and Medieval Europe all normally played with a fairly big group of players.

 

Why can't popularity just be simple, as in Games Played (Public, Tournaments, Teams, even Private IMO, but games that have completed and not Terminated).  Add something else if want a more "real time" view.

How about total # of players for all games? I.e., add up the number of players in each game, including public, tournaments, teams, private.

Yertle wrote:   

So each person that played the board would only count as 1 even if they had played the board 50+ times?

I don't disagree that it promotes few players/fast boards...of course the top 10ish are made up of Risk boards, Europe, USA, World War, and Medieval Europe all normally played with a fairly big group of players.

Why can't popularity just be simple, as in Games Played (Public, Tournaments, Teams, even Private IMO, but games that have completed and not Terminated).  Add something else if want a more "real time" view.

They are also boards that have been around for awhile, which is what Nygma was getting at.

Whether you do unique players or not I don't know, or really think it matters.  Just that it seems unfair for boards like "Lords if Destruction", which is a great many player game, to be knocked in popularity because those games take weeks or months to do.  

I'm working on the IE7 bug w/top - just need to build a new XP VM with IE7 so I can actually test it.

re: Popularity - this is measured by the number of Public games played on the board in the last 30 days. It was actually previously the game count from 'All Time' - this was a testing configuration which I didn't cut over.

It ignores the different board versions and just goes by the board name. I think this is a pretty good measure, I would possibly be tempted to reduce it to a 7 or 10 day game count to make the list more dynamic (i.e. new boards pop into the list more quickly).

weathertop wrote:

anything on the IE7 verticle displaying?

Should be fixed now with a refresh.

great! thx

I see the five most popular -- How do I see the ten most popular?

Board page looks really awesome -- great work, Tom!

Two things that might have already been mentioned:

On the home page, it would be nice if clicking on the ">> Most Popular"  would slide in the N next most popular.  Maybe changing the text to " << Nth >> Most Popular " or something.

Also, can you search by board name?  Like lets say I remember some cool map, and I'll I know is the map title has island in it.  Can I find that?  I guess go to grid mode and use the browser to search.

M57 wrote:

I see the five most popular -- How do I see the ten most popular?

You can just go to the 'All Boards' view and click on the 'sort by popularity' button.

How are tags applied? - everything looks to be classic.

i can't view Development boards. when i click on one of the boards it says: "board 'title' not found in database" this happens for all the dev boards except for backgammon, which i believe is not dev.

I'm seeing Backgammon twice on the Home page: