Re: Decline of OKBridge reply

"Barry Margolin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> I also don't care much for the BBO GUI.  The player display in the lobby
> is really painful to scroll through.  In general, the OKB display seems
> more clean and stylish to me, analogous to the difference between
> Macintosh and Windows GUIs.

We certainly have to rewrite this aspect of the software.
It worked fine when (not so long ago) we rarely had more
than 100 players online at one time. It does not work so
well when there are 1600+ people online (as there have
been for several hours during the past few days).

One difficult issue is that I strongly believe it is a good
thing to have is a "dynamic lobby" (like we do) as opposed
to the user having to click a "refresh" button (as was necessary
in the last version of OKB I saw - maybe a year ago). Not
exactly sure how to make this workable when there are so
many people online. Working on it....

Someone else was wondering about using GIB in some
parts of BBO. Likely this will be possible in the not too
distant future.

Hard to predict when you will see a release that will
include these (and other) features. All I can promise is
that we are committed to making BBO as good we can.
We have 2 (strong but unpaid ) programmers working
pretty much full time on the BBO project. The software
has been improving at a rapid pace for the past 2 years
and I have every reason to believe this will continue.

Appreciate all of the suggestions that have appeared
in rgb (and those that I receive every day by e-mail).
It is much easier for us to make design decisions that
people will like when we receive feedback from them!

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Bsae Inc.
www.bridgebase.com