[barmar]

When at a Vugraph table, can we get a tab in the "Who's online" section for the commentators?

The only problem with this is that this section of the screen is pretty narrow, so there's not much room for tab headings unless you switch to a smaller font. Maybe you can do multi-row tabs, like the preferences dialogue in the Windows client, although that will consume precious vertical real estate (it's OK in preferences windows, since they don't usually have lots of content).

Maybe they could just be moved to the top of the Kibitzers list and color-coded.

[fred]

barmar, on Mar 3 2009, 09:25 PM, said:

When at a Vugraph table, can we get a tab in the "Who's online" section for the commentators?

The only problem with this is that this section of the screen is pretty narrow, so there's not much room for tab headings unless you switch to a smaller font. Maybe you can do multi-row tabs, like the preferences dialogue in the Windows client, although that will consume precious vertical real estate (it's OK in preferences windows, since they don't usually have lots of content).

Maybe they could just be moved to the top of the Kibitzers list and color-coded.

Agree that it would be nice if commentators could somehow be identified.

The next version of the web-client will be the first that can be used by vugraph commentators, but unfortunately your suggestion came a little too late for us to include a feature along the lines of what you suggest.

I will make a note of this and try to arrange to do something about it for a future version.

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com

[fred]

matmat, on Mar 3 2009, 03:14 AM, said:

hi
just powered up the flash version on my machine for a little bit.

first I got a baron barclay ad in the left vertical bar. this was fine. not too atrocious, seemed friendly enough.

then, when I joined a table I got a gawdy, flashing, very distracting ad. I am not even sure what it is for,  since most of the bar is black... it has a frame as if it were a windows xp window,  the only things visible in the frame are  [OK] and [Cancel] buttons, that obviously redirect somewhre (btw, i think that is very low-ball, in terms of ads) and a BLATANTLY FLASHING triangular warning-like sign with a big black "!"
Very annoying.

We are expermenting with some new ad providers for both the Windows and web clients. In general we have considerable control over which ads our members see. If you find a particular ad to be annoying, your best course of action is to send an e-mail to support@bridgebase.com and describe the ad that bothered you.

I will make sure the appropriate person sees your comment, but in general if you want results in this area you have a better chance of getting them if you send us an e-mail.

It should be noted that if you occasionally spend a BB$ you will not see any ads in the web-client at all. I don't know the exact details of how this works and I can't promise this policy will last forever.

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com

[barmar]

There's one ad on the login screen that I find perversely amusing. I think it's for a vacation resort (don't remember which, so I guess it's not that effective) and it's some ropes in a knot that is supposed to resemble a woman's figure. But to me it looks a bit like her private parts.

I was wondering why I don't see ads once I'm logged in, and Fred's response cleared that up. I play Robot Rewards (too) frequently.

[fred]

I am closing this thread. There is a new one that replaces it here:

Link to newer BBO web-client comment thread

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com