Re: Decline of OKBridge reply

I'm spending much more time on BBO these days than I am on OKB.  I find
myself going back to OKB occasionally and getting irritated that I actually
have to ask a person what their bid means rather than just clicking on the
bid.
Ok..ok..so there are things about both programs that irritate me but the
thing
is that I have confidence that the BBO bugs will be worked out whereas OKB
hasn't changed in years.  There is a new version of BBO every month or so
it seems.  When was OKB4.10 produced?  4 years ago?  OKB could allow
users to run their own tournaments but that would decrease those who'd pay
extra for a tournament membership.  I've made numerous suggestions to OKB
and I don't think I've ever even gotten a response let alone actually see
them
do something.

Thanks again Fred...

Todd

"Fred Gitelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > 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.
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> 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
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