[jec9677]

this new warning appeared today a number of times and was quite distracting. We regularly play Casual - Relaxed bridge and the hesitations are kind of long sometimes but our table has never had anyone "locked out". Occasionally a player's connection will drop and whoever becomes the host can reserve them again. I was reading some other posts about this new feature and one post said that if the "permission to play" switch is on when the table is set up, it suppresses the message. This was not true at our table because it was set on by me when I started the table and the warning message still appeared. I hope BBO at least adds an option to suppress this message. I believe that BBO already has a message that asks if a table is still active. Isn't that enough?

[barmar]

This isn't a new feature.

This only affects whether a player is kicked out of the table if their connection is OK but they're taking too long to bid/play. It has no effect on how we detect whether the connection is OK. If the connection is poor, they'll still be disconnected.

The warning about slow players isn't related to permission to play, but whether seats were reserved when the table was created. You can also put +slow+ in the table description; this doesn't get rid of the slow player warning, but doubles the allowed thinking time (normally 50 seconds for the warning, 80 seconds for booting).