#17208: "Better Privacy: Hide Game History, Online Status, and only Mutual Friends"
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Vær sød at undersøge, om der allerede er sendt en besked om emnet
Hvis ja, venligst STEM for denne rapport. Rapporter med flest stemmer er dem der får PRIORITET!
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Detaljeret beskrivelse
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• Venligst kopier/indsæt fejlmeddelelsen du ser på din skærm, hvis der er en.
Please make a feature to hide game history to others. Also please make a feature to hide online status to appear as offline. Also please make friend invites, do not allow someone to be a one-sided friend.
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• Venligst forklar hvad du ønsker at gøre, hvad du gjorde og hvad der skete
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Chrome
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• Venligst kopier/indsæt tekst vist på engelsk i stedet for dit sprog. Hvis du har et skærmbillede af denne fejl (god øvelse), kan du bruge Imgur.com til at uploade den og kopiere/indsætte linket her.
Please make a feature to hide game history to others. Also please make a feature to hide online status to appear as offline. Also please make friend invites, do not allow someone to be a one-sided friend.
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• er der adgang til denne tekst i oversættelsessystem? Hvis ja, er det blevet oversat inden for 24 timer?
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Chrome
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• Forklar venligst dit forslag præcist og sammenfattende, så det er så let som muligt at forstå, hvad du mener.
Please make a feature to hide game history to others. Also please make a feature to hide online status to appear as offline. Also please make friend invites, do not allow someone to be a one-sided friend.
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Chrome
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• Hvad blev der vist på skærmen, da du blev blokeret (Blank skærm? Noget af spilbrugerfladen? Fejlmeddelelse?)
Please make a feature to hide game history to others. Also please make a feature to hide online status to appear as offline. Also please make friend invites, do not allow someone to be a one-sided friend.
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• Hvilken del af reglerne blev ikke respekteret ved BGA-tilpasningen
Please make a feature to hide game history to others. Also please make a feature to hide online status to appear as offline. Also please make friend invites, do not allow someone to be a one-sided friend.
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• Er regel-brudddet synligt i e
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• Hvad var den spilhandling du ønskede at udføre?
Please make a feature to hide game history to others. Also please make a feature to hide online status to appear as offline. Also please make friend invites, do not allow someone to be a one-sided friend.
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• Hvad forsøgte du at gøre for at udløse denne spilhandling?
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• Hvad skete der, da du forsøgre at gøre dette (fejlmeddelelse, meddelelsesstatusbjælke, ...)?
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• I hvilket stadie af spillet opstod problemet (hvad var den daværende spilinstruktion)?
Please make a feature to hide game history to others. Also please make a feature to hide online status to appear as offline. Also please make friend invites, do not allow someone to be a one-sided friend.
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• Hvad skete der, da du forsøgte at udføre denne spilhandling (fejlmeddelelse, meddelelsesstatusbjælke, ...)?
• Hvilken browser bruger du?
Chrome
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• Venligst beskriv display problemet. Hvis du har et skærmbillede af denne fejl (god øvelse), kan du bruge Imgur.com til at uploade den og kopiere/indsætte linket her.
Please make a feature to hide game history to others. Also please make a feature to hide online status to appear as offline. Also please make friend invites, do not allow someone to be a one-sided friend.
• Hvilken browser bruger du?
Chrome
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• Venligst kopier/indsæt tekst vist på engelsk i stedet for dit sprog. Hvis du har et skærmbillede af denne fejl (god øvelse), kan du bruge Imgur.com til at uploade den og kopiere/indsætte linket her.
Please make a feature to hide game history to others. Also please make a feature to hide online status to appear as offline. Also please make friend invites, do not allow someone to be a one-sided friend.
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• er der adgang til denne tekst i oversættelsessystem? Hvis ja, er det blevet oversat inden for 24 timer?
• Hvilken browser bruger du?
Chrome
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• Forklar venligst dit forslag præcist og sammenfattende, så det er så let som muligt at forstå, hvad du mener.
Please make a feature to hide game history to others. Also please make a feature to hide online status to appear as offline. Also please make friend invites, do not allow someone to be a one-sided friend.
• Hvilken browser bruger du?
Chrome
Rapporthistorik
This is also one of the key ways for middle ranked players to advance. You study the games of the masters.
Online status, friends: nobody cares. If game history goes, I'll probably quit this place.
The replay system is excellent for learning from better players and losing this feature would be a big loss to the site.
Mutual friends only was implemented long before 2025-05-27 (earliest comment currently visible). See boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=23290
Hiding online status has other single-topic bug reports, including boardgamearena.com/bug?id=81191. I suggest using that report for online status setting and/or visibility.
Hiding completed games seems of limited use. Completed games do give some past timing history, but they don't allow direct interaction with the players, which appears to be the overall focus of this request. Hiding completed games makes a lot of useful information including game play & strategy learning opportunities, game popularity, and examples for recognizing patterns, diagnosing problems, & supporting bug reports.
Not asked for in this request, but IMO more useful in preventing harassment, would be allowing an individual to hide their list of current active games and/or open tables.
-- Letting people hide their playertables page (boardgamearena.com/playertables?player=[ID]) might be useful, but (especially with the reputation history missing) also means a current or prospective opponent can't gauge whether their opponent is playing more games than they can keep up, or hasn't made any moves at all in an extended period. Being able to look at someone's current tables is also useful when someone has a question about an active game, be it game play, UI, metagame, or bugs.
-- Letting people hide all their open tables seems counter-productive for game matching. Making friends-only or group-only tables visible only to people who can join them would be reasonable, IMO. But there are currently bugs with group tables not always respecting that requirement (possibly related to other issues respecting game options & restrictions), and there are requests (ex: boardgamearena.com/bug?id=23285) for better finding group-restricted games that might combine well with limiting visibility of restricted tables.
Cordialement
I think the simple ask of privacy makes for a very complex solution especially in a space that is looking to be open and connect players. Personally I like the openness of data because I've thought about making a bot that can notify me on other platforms like discord when I have an available move (I'm just not that big at e-mails especially how much spam I get) and the openness of data would allow for others to discover and utilize that bot without having to go through more steps, like friending the bot.
On the other hand I haven't experienced harassment or felt attacked in anyway on BGA, perhaps because I mostly place exclusively with friends. But just wanted to state a form of opposition that others might not have considered.
- you may not be able to watch replays of some top-ranked players for a given game
- you may have issues reporting a bug, if you have that option on
So, it is not only about not being interested into using that feature yourself, it also has some consequences. Having information when exactly the game took place helps other to recognize what replay the have already watched, or may help to find a specific game. Why would you even want to hide it in a first place? Because you feel ashamed about yourself how long you stayed last night? Or you promised someone else you will do something, but eventually you spend that time on BGA? Well, conduct yourself better, then you won't have to hide anything ;)
Better privacy for your status (online/offline), friends, etc. its fine. But game history should remain public.
@KSpooky This is not about how people conduct themselves but a basic privacy concern.
The game history definitely should be hidden and not accessible by players who did not participate at that table.
Example 1: When first starting to play Catan C&K the trades between the two other players at the table were strange. They didn't once trade with me and then one party would immediately offer like 4 cards and only receive 1 in return. A quick check of their game history and sure enough those two players always seem to play at 3 player tables and always together so were clearly colluding. (and no the same IP address alert didn't appear at the start). It didn't really help since they continued to do it but I reported them at the end for king making.
Example 2: Recently about 5 mins into a game of Catan C&K one player loses their city immediately and asks to abandon the game claiming they didn't realise they were playing C&K and didn't know how to play that version and was only familiar with he base version. A quick check of their game history showed that the player was clearly lying as within the last week they had played C&K multiple times (even winning one). Needless to say the request to abandon was rejected.
game history has to stay, but if privacy settings are relevant one could hide, when games are played/game durations if people want that.
Leave it be, it works well enough.
Like many mentioned already, having a massive database of the highest level play of all games is incredible, it would be a HUGE loss if that was removed. Anytime I wanna get into a new game I watch replays of the top players to learn. Removing that sounds like a complete non-starter.
Of course giving players the option to hide the specific time of playing (or other personal statistics that dont involve making the replays unavailable) is totally fine though.
Thank you
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- Hvis du har et skærmbillede af denne fejl (god øvelse), kan du bruge Imgur.com til at uploade den og kopiere/indsætte linket her.
