Bugs, defects, improvements, enhancements, ....

I found several bugs and I get a lot of enhancements from players. If you find any bug or you have some idea for betterment of this web, write it to this forum.

Most important for me: email notification, better player list (with rating)

Maybe I just haven't found it but is there a place to see a list of other players registered on the server? How do I invite someone to play a game if I don't know who is a player?

List of players is in Main Menu-->Main-->List of Player

What I miss here :
P1 - I'd like to see progress in others games in tournament that I'm attending - maybe Tournament should be a link in My Games ?

P2 - I want to know more about others players e.g. which game they won/lost, etc.
- There could be displayed more info about Player (Main->List of players->choose player) like sex, nationality, ...

P3 - there shouldn't be displayed *null* when game is in no tournament. There should be better message displayed(*No tournament* or

P5 - names and orders of columns are confusing ;)

"Short info" isn't refreshed immediately after login.

It'd be nice if numbers of "Your games" in "Short info" were hyperlinks

Ooops, 'register' link from News (2002-03-13 06:16] Little Golem Championship - Go 9x9) doesn't work for me... I receive some 'Apache Tomcat/4.0.3 - Error report'

I would also like to have e-mail notification when it is my turn to play at Little Golem. Since IYT and Dragon both send me an e-mail letting me know when it is my turn to play, I have gotten into the habit of not checking those server unless I get an e-mail letting me know it is my turn to play. Since I am not getting e-mails from Golem, I forget to check here.

Rio, you are off to a nice start here at Golem...keep up the good work.

You should do something about people who don't enter a country.... They get 'null' now

Email notification - I have software done, but I am waiting for my Internet Provider - they have problems with configure sendmail for this web.

Nice to see how quickly are bugs resolved. Good work, Rio ;) Could the email notification be more configurable ? Like notify me only once a day, after a opponent move, after X hours, etc...

1, where can I see my finished unrated games ? Do I have to remember their numbers ? ;) 2, There could be more options to invite somebody - like 2-rounds etc... 3, When there is a message from system there should not be a link Respond to SYSTEM - it does nothing in any case ;)

Hi Richard,

I think it would be nice when printing/showing all games for particular player print (chess) diagrams regarding players color, i.e. for chess games where I am black print white stones at top and black at bottom.

Thanks, Miuek

For example in game #2445 black move 16... 0-0.

Thanks

Miuek

One improvment I would like to see is the possibility
to play via email. It's painfull slow (not to mention
expensive) to surf on a laptop with a cellar phone
modem.

in the main forum on one of the topic pages, when i reply by filling in the box underneath the messages and then submit my post, i always end up here (instead of on the page for the topic i have posted to) - i am still looking for another way to reach this Bugs forum :)

ah! here it is :)

well i am on web tv and taking up my memory

I tried several times to edit my user profile and everytime i get the same message:

Email address (public email) is wrong

I have tried all my 3 e-mail boxes.. What is wrong in a public e-mail ? :>

Well.. I'm sorry not to search thefhe forum first before asking..:/

But the other thing that could be added is deleting the posts :-)

(of course with a very very little priority.. :] )

Thanks for fixing the Forum archive bug!

I would really like to see a PREVIEW SCREEN for messages and posts. I like to put html tags in my messages, and I would like to see if it comes out right before I post it.

Also, much less important, for those games which have text records of each game in SGF format, it would be great if you could conform to standard SGF some day:

\* Put the RE property in the first node of all games which have finished. This is particularly helpful for games which forfeited on time. For example, use RE[B+Time] if Black won on time, RE[W+Resign] if black resigned, RE[B+] if black won by achieving the object of the game, or RE[Draw] if the game was drawn.

\* In Hex, "swap" should be "swap-pieces," and in Twixt it should be "swap-firstpeg." Also for Hex and Twixt, each move should be in letter-number format, not letter-letter. This is different from Go SGF.

\* Put GM[11] in the first node of each Hex game.

\* Put GM[21] and RU[PP] in the first node of each Twixt game. If someday, God willing, you do change the Twixt rules back to standard, it will be important to distinguish PP game from STD games. What a mess...

Thanks for you patience!

Here are a few bugfixes/improvements I'd like to see:

- The no name players - If they haven't entered anything in the Real Name field, show their login-names, like it did before.

- To add rating range as a search option on the list of players, that is in combination with searching a specific game.

- Rating tournaments are added to the new games.

- Option for players to agree on different time limits for non-tournament games (i.e. 1 day, 7 days, 30 days)

- Option for rated and unrated non-tournament games, both in waiting room and game invitations.

And one more:

- A display of captured pieces in Chess and Go.

lluvatar, in go there is already a display of the captured pieces...

Gregorio, you're quite right, it's a while since I played Go. I forgot about the prisoners.

Not to repeat anyone else's requests, I'd like to see:

- A page showing the latest completed games of a particular game type, sorted by time completed, with a link to the game. It's already possible to follow a game move-by-move, but I'd like to have an orderly way of discovering the latest interesting games to look at.

- When showing ratings, also show win expectancies. Sometimes it is nice to know the magnitude of one player's advantage. Just showing two ratings does not make that clear.

- Use Ajax technology to make games more instantaneously responsive.

- The game of "Hive".

I agree with iluvatar that a VISUAL display of captured pieces in go would be nice.

Let me explain why: I often get mixed up with the simple count of white and black prisoners, because WHITE stones actually count as points for BLACK.

In the final count the white prisoners (white stones) in the display are suddenly being called "black prisoners" (points for black). Displaying the captured stones would be a way of avoiding the confusion.

But anything less confusing than: "Prisoners (Black/White): 0/1" would be fine.

For example instead of:

Komi: 5.5

Prisoners (Black/White): 0/1

a table like this:

BlackWhiteKomi-5.5Prisonners10Total points05.5

Oh the html is not so clean, and the total is wrong. But you got the idea right? :)

I see your point. Let's say black has taken his first prisoner from white, that would be a proper way to display the number "1" together with the white stone.

Ok under a player, it says last time connected was

Lastconnect: 2006-03-21 22:09

It says that on all the players I look at. I think it is stuck on March 21st. I just use it to see when my friends were last on and its not working. :(

I'de love a feature to bookmark games I'de like to follow. :-)

I agree with klaashaas: I would like to bookmark games. This might also be a good as an added premium feature for members, since it's not essential to playing games.

Hello. Just want you to read my message here http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/forum/topic2.jsp?forum=70&topic=43

Draw offering is really necessary in such games as connect6 and gomoku.

Thanks.

I agree but draw offer should be possible after a certain number of moves. Otherwise, we'll see draw offers from the 6th move and then we'll have another great discussion about ratings and manipulation!

games statistics like in kurnik :-)

Yes, it will be good to add such option like statistic quiries. To know how many times you played agaist concret player, statistics of that games(how many losses, wins), etc. So it will be good if LG will power their statistic abilities.

ongoing reminder about bug in streetsoccer won/lost column for past gameds

Minor cosmetic feature requests:

Make more references to someones name be a link to their player page (so no need for the tiny 'info' link for example.

Make more references to a game be a link to that game's main page.

I find my navigation round the site is slowed because I see shortcuts that would make things quicker and slicker.

Minor Einstein feature request:

Be able to resign a board, without resigning the whole game. Sometimes it's obvious you'll lose a board, and you want to move to the next one immediately.

In office, we play little golem on the network ; since the install of the new internet explorer the images of the chess games aren't what they used to be ; we don't see any difference between the blue or the white boxes ; the colors of the pieces are blue and white ; background yellow ?

Can you do anything about it ; it's really enoying !

use mozilla firefox instead

Street Soccer Bug.

If you look at the game history, including the current state if it's your opponents turn, then the icon for the die sometimes does not correspond to the actual roll for that move.

Here's a game selected entirely at random, and you can see, it's pretty b0rked:

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=639043&nmove=29

Again, it shows a 2, but the move was a 3.

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=639043&nmove=30

Showing a 1, but the move was a 3.

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=639043&nmove=33

Showing a 6 but the move was a 5.

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=639043&nmove=34

Showing a 4 but the move was a 2.

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=639043&nmove=35

Showing a 3 but the move was a 5.

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=639043&nmove=44

Showing a 6 but the move was a 5.

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=639043&nmove=45

Showing a 2 but the move was a 3.

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=639043&nmove=48

Showing a 2 but the move was a 4.

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=639043&nmove=49

Showing a 1 but the move was a 4.

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=639043&nmove=52

Showing a 3 but the move was a 5.

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=639043&nmove=53

Showing a 1 but the move was a 5.

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=639043&nmove=55

Showing a 4 but the move was a 6.

I.e. it's garbage for over 20% of the moves.

Also there seems to be some confusion - is the die supposed to represent the roll just moved, or the roll that's about to be moved? In the history, it seems to mostly be the roll just moved (apart from the bug I mention), but if you move to the most recent move, then it displays the roll about to be moved. This is inconsistent, and seems poorly thought out.

'poorly thought out' means 'I would have done a differently and have good reasons', but nothing else I guess ...

Fat Phil, could you give the url of your gamesite? I want to see a great gamesite without any feature that can be declared 'poorly thought out' when someone thinks he might have done otherwise if he did it.

"poorly thought out" means not only what you said, but requires (when used reasonably) that the user is pretty sure that the designer would agree with him if the designer had fully considered it.

In this case, I'd say FatPhil is right, regardless of whether he has, or even could, make a better web site. LG is very good; you don't have to pretend it's perfect in order to enjoy it.

Hjallti - Do not selectively quote sections of sentences. I said "seems poorly thought out", not just "poorly thought out". I see a logical inconsistency which I would not have designed in, and, if I may create a false dichotomy, either:

a) it was deliberately designed that way after much thought; or

b) it is simply unintentionally that way after not giving it too much thought.

Much about the site is logical, and well designed, which makes me think that it's (b) rather than (a). If you think I'm wrong, are you asserting that you think that it was deliberately designed to be inconsistent?

Saying that only those who have done better can criticise is utterly fallacious, and warrants no further response.

LG is easily the best game site I've ever seen, the others don't even come close to the speed, usability, and unclutteredness. It's just a shame that it seems to have stagnated at being only 90% perfect.

The reason for this (90% perfection) is that littlegolem is a fraqtal site!

(ease up guys...)

E4

Suggested feature -- for finished games the ranks show should be the ranks at the time of the game, not the ranks now.

Thanks for the nice website.

Sorry guys...

my apologies for overreacting...

here's why.

To me 'poorly thought' just (as non native speaker) sounded rather hard complain, but I agree it is not what is to be expected. I only wouldn't make a topic from it, and I think the phrasing is upsetting (maybe not for native speaker for which it is a standard sentence)

Sorry. 5 years from now.