Game sign up suggestion
by John. Fri, 3 Feb (Updated at Fri, 3 Feb)For last night’s game I thought I had a full table but it turned out that Pedro’s name had obviously been added in error by someone, so there were only 3 of us and we’d waited 20 minutes just in case.
So my suggestion is that if you sign up for a game you also leave a confirmation message.
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How can a name be added in error by someone else? When we click on an empty circle is only our name that appears because that's how we're logged in.
Forget my previous post. I now see the interface has changed and that a drop-down menu appears that allows me to add other people to any game. Very bad idea. I guess this has to do with my user permissions being upgraded so that I can create new posts. I think the permissions system needs to be simplified: normal users can create posts and add themselves to a game, admins can add others to games (not sure why, for tournament games? even there it would probably better for each person to sign up as a confirmation they will show up to the tournament)
In fact it happens quite often that people agree to play a particular game before anything is posted on the site - in that case, it makes sense for whoever eventually lists the game to be able to add all those who have already agreed to play.
Possibly it would make sense for some sort of confirmation prompt to pop up after you add someone, which would hopefully catch such errors most of the time?
Or only the person suggesting the game can add other players and only at the point of suggesting the game, not later.
Sure, but even then there are exceptions. If Pedro and Elsa want to join a game that someone else posted, they would have to sign up individually in that case.
Also another suggestion: why not trigger an email notification once you are signed up for a game?
This way the person would be advised his name was there and could amend any error.
Unless you were at work 🙂
Dan is planning to add a notification system for any comments or other inputs on the website relating to the subject user. I don't think it was going to do emails, just something to pop up when they next check the website. Hopefully that will do to begin with.
