2020 Dec 3. 12:49 •
Countess-Aleksey •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Friends appearing on the games log can be a distraction and it is difficult to search for game related actions.
2020 Dec 3. 22:14 •
BGAgod •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
this is annoying. I would love this feature
2020 Dec 4. 13:00 •
Hosslad •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
I agree, and would add the same for groups - I'm a member of 3 groups but generally only playing real time in one of those groups at once - it is frustrating when all the messages from other groups as well as friends keep appearing in the game log - would be great to be able to toggle messages on/off.
2020 Dec 6. 20:58 •
R o d n e y •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
I don't personally use the game log, but when I see it, I don't understand why they put so much info on friend's activity. This isn't Facebook. Most of us rarely know their BGA "friends" personally. So, while we enjoy playing with them, we are not quite as interested in their activity.
2020 Dec 7. 18:41 •
janezy •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
It would be especially useful to turn off notifications about who your friends have friended and when they register to tournaments.
2020 Dec 7. 22:25 •
MikeIsHere •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
it is especially hard to read the game log in a turn based game when all you see is
X is online
X is offline
Y is online
X is online
Y is offline
X is online
X is offline
Y is online
X is online
Y is offline
X is online
X is offline
Y is online
X is online
Y is offline
Makes me want to not have friends.
2020 Dec 25. 21:04 •
zingadoodle •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Yes.
2021 Jan 24. 16:19 •
Katt83 •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Please allow choice to turn off friends online pop up and friends tournament actions. Not useful info.
2021 Jan 26. 10:51 •
Maminoue47 •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
pourriez vous installer le scrabble?
merci
2021 Feb 20. 09:30 •
recontact •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
@Maminoue47 : il faut créer un autre rapport pour demander l'ajout du scrabble
2021 Feb 24. 18:25 •
Big Dog •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Sounds like a good idea.
2021 Sep 11. 20:22 •
trimall •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Also, when some players stream their games on Twitch/YouTube, their friends may not want their names/IDs appearing in the stream's game log.
2021 Nov 1. 11:53 •
SilentNSly •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Please give me an option to disable this.
2021 Nov 16. 19:54 •
Ninolia •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Or just disable it inside all games for all. Who would possibly want that spam inside games? Possibly useful in the Games in progress &/ Play now pages.
2022 Jan 2. 01:54 •
cigma •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
I don't agree with Ninolia: "disable it inside all games for all." Let the user choose, if they want it or not!
2022 Mar 2. 20:37 •
dasist •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
This 1000x.
It's such a shame to have such a well implemented moves log only to have it spammed by the random activity of people coming online/offline.
In this day and age I'm either seeking a random game with people I don't know on BGA (very rare) or I'm connecting with friends or community members elsewhere to propose a game. In other words, I don't need BGA itself to act as the 'lobby', especially from inside of a game!!!!
2022 May 3. 01:49 •
fufumdr •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
The friend connection info can be useful, but the game log is definitely a wrong place for it.
Even notification about one of the in-game players getting disconnected/reconnected would better be moved out of the log
e.g., replaced with some "un-plugged" icon blinking over currently disconnected player's avatars.
2022 May 14. 22:23 •
GTSchemer •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
This is still making it very unpleasant to have friends since it causes tons of log spam while trying to parse strategy game logs.
2022 Jun 13. 01:22 •
sedjtroll •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
PLUS ONE!
Please remove non-game-log activity from the game logs!
2022 Jun 17. 02:41 •
Mathew5000 •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Strongly agree with GTSchemer's comment. Now when I get a friend request it makes me unhappy, because I either have to hurt someone's feelings by rejecting the request, or tolerate even more distractions in the game log.
2022 Jun 25. 14:34 •
yzemaze •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
If offering the requested option isn’t on the agenda please at least add a unique css-class to these status logs so we can use user-scripts, ad-blockers etc. to hide these entries.
2022 Jul 13. 06:26 •
ron_gametime •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
As MikeIsHere said:
Please turn this off for game logs.
X is online
X is offline
Y is online
X is online
Y is offline
X is online
X is offline
Y is online
X is online
Y is offline
X is online
X is offline
Y is online
X is online
Y is offline
Makes me want to not have friends...
2022 Jul 13. 15:22 •
Archduke •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Report short description
"Option Button in Friends"
changed to
"Option to hide friend activity from game log"
2022 Jul 14. 17:40 •
GTSchemer •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Agreed, a unique CSS class if nothing else would allow people to work around it. Ideally an option button like Archduke said.
2022 Jul 18. 03:03 •
GregoryFromEarth •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Yes, anything to remove this annoyance from the game logs.
2022 Jul 25. 19:42 •
skoki •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Please remove non-game-log activity from the game logs!
There is a special icon to see friends' status. Make that blink once when there is some changes.
But keep logs tidy. This is also about including group/tournament chat messages in the log - for big real-time tournaments you might not be able to see the player move at all, not mentioning the ton of sound notifications.
At least, add unique css ID/class to these messages.
2022 Aug 2. 17:23 •
Joe •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Adding my voice to this!
2022 Aug 12. 14:42 •
guustavf •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Perhaps it could become a premium feature?
2022 Aug 22. 18:30 •
aghagh •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
I did a friends' clean-up because of the excessive ammount of notifications. I'd find it very reasonable to be able to turn many friends' related notifications on and off.
2022 Sep 7. 20:16 •
pk5439 •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Please implement this.
2022 Sep 29. 01:10 •
miklomike •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
I have deleted friends I routinely play with because they enter too many tournaments. I only want to see my own info on the main page, like results in MY tournaments that have ended, and posts from groups I am in.
2022 Nov 6. 03:19 •
gwarrack •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
I'm strongly considering removing the majority of my friends just to avoid these notifications. Please strongly consider removing these notifications, or at least adding an option to turn them off. If I want to know which friends are online, I'll open the friends drop-down.
2022 Nov 19. 19:50 •
Loutella •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Please make this an option, I want to be able to see the list of past moves
2022 Nov 19. 21:33 •
Brocconel •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Adding my voice to support this option of hiding or disabling BGA friends activity being listed in game logs, please.
2022 Nov 23. 01:18 •
Pigeon34 •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
We will celebrate the 2 years anniversary of this bug report soon and still nothing? There is no reason at all to have friend activity in the Game Logs. Just delete it. This is a simple fix. I'm thinking about sending my resume to BGA just to do something like this story :
The first thing our new hire did was fix a bug that's been bugging him forever as a user prior to joining.
He then breathed a sigh of relief and submitted his two weeks' notice. wtf??
2023 Jan 10. 00:57 •
deejinlondon •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Yes, completely agree with this suggestion.
2023 Jan 12. 23:17 •
Winn81 •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Please implement this
2023 Jan 13. 13:09 •
tchobello •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
OMG, yes... one of the most annoying thing in BGA.
2023 Jan 25. 14:45 •
BiPeter •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Plus 1! One of my wished implement on this site!
2023 Feb 6. 17:49 •
iElf •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
I would like to have the option to remove friends-updates from game logs. (If you have friends with weak connections it can really interfere with working out what's happened in multi-player games.) I frequently have to use F5, but I'd like it if I didn't have to. However, I note that the devs have rejected the previous suggestion of this feature, #25075: "rejected: Developers think that it is not a good idea or that the cost/benefit ratio is too high". I guess this feature is too deeply embedded? Oh well, F5 spamming it is...
2023 Feb 17. 17:28 •
Mr Zee •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
This is the number one thing that I would like to see get fixed. I've dropped friends because of this.
2023 Mar 27. 15:24 •
GTSchemer •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
I have continued to remove friends because of this. :( It actively works against the social aspect of the site, it spams game logs so much.
2023 Mar 27. 17:58 •
hammerin •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Please implement this 'fix'.
2023 Apr 18. 14:28 •
yzemaze •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
It looks like sth. has changed since last June. Game-specific log entries now have the (apparently!) unique class log-replayable, therefore one can exclude all other messages with CSS like this:
#logs > .log:not(.log_replayable) {
display: none !important;
}
I haven’t thoroughly tested this, but #logs > should be enough insurance to prevent side effects.
2023 Jun 4. 16:38 •
valuecf •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
A simple toggle switch to allow sellection:
Include All Activity vs Current Game Only logs.
2023 Jun 17. 19:55 •
Livini •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
I don't even have (or want to have) friends on BGA, but I'd really like to see a 'Current Game Only logs' option like valuecf suggested. I sometimes get invitations to 'suggested games' while I'm already playing a different game, and it stresses me out.
2023 Jul 5. 15:23 •
Stuff by Bez •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Yes, this makes the game log kinda useless and horrible if you have a lot of friends.
2023 Sep 27. 16:06 •
egburr •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Unbelievable that someone had to create a chrome extension to implement this. Glad I use chrome!
2023 Oct 8. 21:32 •
Elonka •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
This is a very annoying thing, hot just for the constant messages, but because it's also telling me that people are online when they're not. I've been asking what they might be doing that is causing this, but they don't know. It will even happen when they are sound asleep! And if they're awake and talking to me, I'll be seeing it happen, and we're all mystified. They're not using multiple tabs, they're not on a mobile device, they're just in one tab, and it's on, off, on, off. As was mentioned above, it's miserable when I have a lot of friends, it's just a long scroll of useless information.
2023 Oct 13. 15:08 •
menettm •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
I would like to add new friends.
BUT with only one friend playing often in BGA, I receive in the log during each game made, messages about its different logins/logout. It is unbearable. :(.
So I don't add or request new friends in BGA !
An option must be made. It is possible because a developper have made a Chrome extension for that.
I don't understand hy it is not already in BGA.
2023 Oct 28. 19:34 •
aquila-sunrise •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
I would love thisf. I really don't care about seeing online/offline notices, nor can I even think of any scenario in which this information would be useful.
2023 Nov 1. 17:06 •
PetrGasparik •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
please let us turn it off
it clogs game log a lot
2023 Nov 3. 17:49 •
Livini •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
I don't even have or want BGA friends and I get unwanted notifications too. Once or twice, I got a message that a random user (not my friend) was online, which was probably just a bug. But I also get spammed constantly with 'suggested' games, usually while I'm already playing a realtime game, which is completely at odds with BGA's karma system as well as just being annoying, invasive and stressful.
Here is my bug report for the suggested games if anyone else finds this annoying:
boardgamearena.com/bug?id=74107
2023 Nov 6. 02:40 •
Wolfstar50 •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
This is an absolutely awful 'feature'.
As a very new user of BGA I accepted a friend request from someone (my first friend) only to then keep seeing these notifications pop up constantly that they were online.
I became paranoid and thought they were stalking me!
Not only are these notifications distracting and annoying but made me avoid BGA due to my 'stalker'.
2023 Nov 10. 17:35 •
Meeple Mama •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
It's very distracting to see the notifications that a friend is online, etc. when you're in a game - especially if it's a new game that you're trying to learn and want to see specific moves of your opponents.
2023 Nov 15. 08:58 •
SkarNL •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
A quick tip to "fix" this.
On the preferences > advanced tab ( boardgamearena.com/preferences?section=advanced ), you can add your own custom CSS.
Adding the following will hide these player notifications:
.notif_playerstatus {
display:none!important;
}
Only downside is that these bug-pages won't work when you have custom CSS ... so you have to clear it if you want to add / reply to a bug.
2023 Dec 20. 02:30 •
KellzAB •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
3 years and over 50 reports with over 500 votes to at least have an option to remove "friend online/offline" notifications and NOT ONE developer reviewing this. Unacceptable.
2024 Mar 2. 16:31 •
Impeccable Nonsense •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
This feature is sorely needed. The constant notifications are really annoying when you have a lot of friends.
2024 Mar 19. 19:32 •
SqueekyHT •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
I wonder if the devs understand that we are not objecting to having the friend info available, just that it doesn't belong in a game log.
Add it as part of our friend section, display it on a separate page, make it time out of the log after 5 minutes, limit it to only players at the current table or add a toggle in settings. If you're not on a game page, it shows in the General Messages. So, why can't it always be there?
There are multiple ways to solve this. They can't all be "not a good idea or the cost/benefit ratio is too high"
2024 Mar 24. 17:43 •
Jenn_P •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
As a new player who is learning the various games and the UI, these notifications are a distraction and a reason to avoid adding more friends.
2024 Apr 21. 17:32 •
Sventrapance •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
It's really annoying, you need a button to turn off friends activity
2024 Apr 23. 04:00 •
ExaltedAngel •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Agree, super annoying
2024 Apr 25. 12:01 •
flurric •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Would be nice to see the team reviewing this important suggestion! ;-)
"Non-game-related" notifications should be handled separately (switched on/off or moved from game log to general log as an option)
2024 Apr 27. 22:23 •
Jonagill •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
I can see the value of these notifications for seeing if a player disconnects during a real-time game, but it's not necessary for asynchronous games and absolutely nonsensical that it shows the status of players who aren't even in the current game.
2024 May 16. 22:14 •
ArcadeDweller •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Definitely. When I see someone has gone offline in the game log, I usually think it's a player in that game. These notifications should be separate and/or optional
2024 May 20. 15:54 •
Tof63 •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Hi, just a reminder that you can install a Google chrome extension to remove the friends activity log.
chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bga-chrome-extension/kchnhmpeopknjdjejognciimepllkacb
Have a nice day
2024 Jun 1. 03:19 •
TripleLSupreme •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Four years and this hasn't even been reviewed/analyzed by the developers? This issue becomes even more annoying when you have lots of friends that play this on mobile and are constantly going offline and online.
2024 Jun 26. 22:13 •
UnholyReg •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
For the the Great Spaghetti Monster's sake, please, please let us turn this off...
2024 Jul 11. 15:32 •
Tristan107 •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
This is a 5 minute fix : just add a filterable custom CSS around logs showing friends status, like it was done before (there was a "notif_playerstatus" class that you could filter in "advanced" settings).
Please, this is one of the most upvoted bug, it makes some games like Hanabi very hard to play if u have too many friends and they all log out at the same hour.
At least give us an explanation on why u think this is hard to implement.
2024 Aug 20. 00:32 •
hey_its_mojo •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
FOUR YEARS of the community to ask for the /option/ to turn this on or off.
Developers can leave it default on, but to not even consider providing the users the ability to customize their feeds with an all or nothing login notification system is wild.
2024 Sep 22. 22:06 •
Songo •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
after years of being annoyed by this today i found out the names arent clickable, so after thousands of pops up when i finally decided to click one for the first time it did nothing ahahahah, just so bad in every possible way
2024 Oct 24. 17:14 •
RetroRobert •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
So frustrating. I do not accept friend requests specifically for this reason. I hate having my activity log clogged up with these notifications, so my only way to manage that is to have no friends... <sniff> ;-)
2024 Nov 6. 15:08 •
GoKartMozart •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Another +1 for this annoyance! Please give us the power to disable this, either for all "friends" or on a friend-by-friend basis
2024 Dec 29. 22:58 •
Gentlecow •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
This should be implemented. Why spam the log?
2025 Feb 6. 17:25 •
Dwight_McCarthy •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
Please implement this feature. Or deactivate notifications for friends activities completely.
2025 Feb 23. 18:12 •
spaceman256 •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
This thread is four years old. Is it really that hard to implement such a simple option, with this much demand for it?
2025 Apr 5. 22:39 •
FrankJones •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
It's difficult to believe this has not been done yet. It's a "GAME LOG".
Why are there data in the game log that has nothing to do with the game?
2025 Apr 14. 18:32 •
hammastahna •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
#logs > .log:not(.log_replayable) {
display: none !important;
}
worked, but also disabled some actual game messages
2025 Jun 15. 12:16 •
dessp7 •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
I can't believe this is not implemented in 5 years xD
2025 Jun 15. 17:44 •
spaceman256 •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
1,655 days. 838 upvotes. 0 responses from developer.
2025 Aug 3. 22:48 •
Meliyara •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
I agree with this yes
2025 Aug 14. 20:25 •
spaceman256 •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
1,715 days. 865 upvotes. 0 responses from developer.
2025 Sep 30. 23:08 •
blarz •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
2025 Oct 13. 19:37 •
spaceman256 •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
1,775 days. 879 upvotes. 0 responses from developer.
2025 Nov 22. 14:09 •
vidaldo •
Šio pasiūlymo kūrėjai dar neišanalizavo:
You can hide games from friends that you dont like to play with, or hidding game at working hours.