#29258: "Option to hide friend activity from game log"

3. joulu 2020 12:49 • Countess-Aleksey • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Friends appearing on the games log can be a distraction and it is difficult to search for game related actions.

3. joulu 2020 22:14 • BGAgod • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

this is annoying. I would love this feature

4. joulu 2020 13:00 • Hosslad • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

I agree, and would add the same for groups - I'm a member of 3 groups but generally only playing real time in one of those groups at once - it is frustrating when all the messages from other groups as well as friends keep appearing in the game log - would be great to be able to toggle messages on/off.

6. joulu 2020 20:58 • R o d n e y • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

I don't personally use the game log, but when I see it, I don't understand why they put so much info on friend's activity. This isn't Facebook. Most of us rarely know their BGA "friends" personally. So, while we enjoy playing with them, we are not quite as interested in their activity.

7. joulu 2020 18:41 • janezy • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

It would be especially useful to turn off notifications about who your friends have friended and when they register to tournaments.

7. joulu 2020 22:25 • MikeIsHere • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

it is especially hard to read the game log in a turn based game when all you see is
X is online
X is offline
Y is online
X is online
Y is offline
X is online
X is offline
Y is online
X is online
Y is offline
X is online
X is offline
Y is online
X is online
Y is offline

Makes me want to not have friends.

25. joulu 2020 21:04 • zingadoodle • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Yes.

24. tammi 2021 16:19 • Katt83 • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Please allow choice to turn off friends online pop up and friends tournament actions. Not useful info.

26. tammi 2021 10:51 • Maminoue47 • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

pourriez vous installer le scrabble?
merci

20. helmi 2021 9:30 • recontact • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

@Maminoue47 : il faut créer un autre rapport pour demander l'ajout du scrabble

24. helmi 2021 18:25 • Big Dog • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Sounds like a good idea.

11. syys 2021 20:22 • trimall • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Also, when some players stream their games on Twitch/YouTube, their friends may not want their names/IDs appearing in the stream's game log.

1. marras 2021 11:53 • SilentNSly • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Please give me an option to disable this.

16. marras 2021 19:54 • Ninolia • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Or just disable it inside all games for all. Who would possibly want that spam inside games? Possibly useful in the Games in progress &/ Play now pages.

2. tammi 2022 1:54 • cigma • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

I don't agree with Ninolia: "disable it inside all games for all." Let the user choose, if they want it or not!

8. helmi 2022 0:08 • cigma • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

This bug report s a DUPLICATE of boardgamearena.com/bug?id=25075

2. maalis 2022 20:37 • dasist • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

This 1000x.

It's such a shame to have such a well implemented moves log only to have it spammed by the random activity of people coming online/offline.

In this day and age I'm either seeking a random game with people I don't know on BGA (very rare) or I'm connecting with friends or community members elsewhere to propose a game. In other words, I don't need BGA itself to act as the 'lobby', especially from inside of a game!!!!

3. touko 2022 1:49 • fufumdr • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

The friend connection info can be useful, but the game log is definitely a wrong place for it.
Even notification about one of the in-game players getting disconnected/reconnected would better be moved out of the log
e.g., replaced with some "un-plugged" icon blinking over currently disconnected player's avatars.

14. touko 2022 22:23 • GTSchemer • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

This is still making it very unpleasant to have friends since it causes tons of log spam while trying to parse strategy game logs.

13. kesä 2022 1:22 • sedjtroll • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

PLUS ONE!

Please remove non-game-log activity from the game logs!

17. kesä 2022 2:41 • Mathew5000 • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Strongly agree with GTSchemer's comment. Now when I get a friend request it makes me unhappy, because I either have to hurt someone's feelings by rejecting the request, or tolerate even more distractions in the game log.

25. kesä 2022 14:34 • yzemaze • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

If offering the requested option isn’t on the agenda please at least add a unique css-class to these status logs so we can use user-scripts, ad-blockers etc. to hide these entries.

13. heinä 2022 6:26 • ron_gametime • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

As MikeIsHere said:

Please turn this off for game logs.

X is online
X is offline
Y is online
X is online
Y is offline
X is online
X is offline
Y is online
X is online
Y is offline
X is online
X is offline
Y is online
X is online
Y is offline

Makes me want to not have friends...

13. heinä 2022 15:22 • Archduke • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Report short description
"Option Button in Friends"
changed to
"Option to hide friend activity from game log"

14. heinä 2022 17:40 • GTSchemer • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Agreed, a unique CSS class if nothing else would allow people to work around it. Ideally an option button like Archduke said.

18. heinä 2022 3:03 • GregoryFromEarth • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Yes, anything to remove this annoyance from the game logs.

25. heinä 2022 19:42 • skoki • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Please remove non-game-log activity from the game logs!
There is a special icon to see friends' status. Make that blink once when there is some changes.
But keep logs tidy. This is also about including group/tournament chat messages in the log - for big real-time tournaments you might not be able to see the player move at all, not mentioning the ton of sound notifications.

At least, add unique css ID/class to these messages.

2. elo 2022 17:23 • Joe • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Adding my voice to this!

12. elo 2022 14:42 • guustavf • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Perhaps it could become a premium feature?

22. elo 2022 18:30 • aghagh • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

I did a friends' clean-up because of the excessive ammount of notifications. I'd find it very reasonable to be able to turn many friends' related notifications on and off.

7. syys 2022 20:16 • pk5439 • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Please implement this.

29. syys 2022 1:10 • miklomike • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

I have deleted friends I routinely play with because they enter too many tournaments. I only want to see my own info on the main page, like results in MY tournaments that have ended, and posts from groups I am in.

6. marras 2022 3:19 • gwarrack • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

I'm strongly considering removing the majority of my friends just to avoid these notifications. Please strongly consider removing these notifications, or at least adding an option to turn them off. If I want to know which friends are online, I'll open the friends drop-down.

19. marras 2022 19:50 • Loutella • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Please make this an option, I want to be able to see the list of past moves

19. marras 2022 21:33 • Brocconel • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Adding my voice to support this option of hiding or disabling BGA friends activity being listed in game logs, please.

23. marras 2022 1:18 • Pigeon34 • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

We will celebrate the 2 years anniversary of this bug report soon and still nothing? There is no reason at all to have friend activity in the Game Logs. Just delete it. This is a simple fix. I'm thinking about sending my resume to BGA just to do something like this story :

The first thing our new hire did was fix a bug that's been bugging him forever as a user prior to joining.
He then breathed a sigh of relief and submitted his two weeks' notice. wtf??

10. tammi 2023 0:57 • deejinlondon • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Yes, completely agree with this suggestion.

12. tammi 2023 23:17 • Winn81 • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Please implement this

13. tammi 2023 13:09 • tchobello • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

OMG, yes... one of the most annoying thing in BGA.

25. tammi 2023 14:45 • BiPeter • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Plus 1! One of my wished implement on this site!

6. helmi 2023 17:49 • iElf • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

I would like to have the option to remove friends-updates from game logs. (If you have friends with weak connections it can really interfere with working out what's happened in multi-player games.) I frequently have to use F5, but I'd like it if I didn't have to. However, I note that the devs have rejected the previous suggestion of this feature, #25075: "rejected: Developers think that it is not a good idea or that the cost/benefit ratio is too high". I guess this feature is too deeply embedded? Oh well, F5 spamming it is...

17. helmi 2023 17:28 • Mr Zee • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

This is the number one thing that I would like to see get fixed. I've dropped friends because of this.

27. maalis 2023 15:24 • GTSchemer • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

I have continued to remove friends because of this. :( It actively works against the social aspect of the site, it spams game logs so much.

27. maalis 2023 17:58 • hammerin • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Please implement this 'fix'.

18. huhti 2023 14:28 • yzemaze • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

It looks like sth. has changed since last June. Game-specific log entries now have the (apparently!) unique class log-replayable, therefore one can exclude all other messages with CSS like this:

#logs > .log:not(.log_replayable) {
display: none !important;
}

I haven’t thoroughly tested this, but #logs > should be enough insurance to prevent side effects.

12. touko 2023 9:03 • Tof63 • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

If you are a Google Chrome user, you can install this extension : chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/boardgamearena-extension/jdiekdaapekbemobdeacplcfmignidoc

It allows to remove these messages

4. kesä 2023 16:38 • valuecf • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

A simple toggle switch to allow sellection:
Include All Activity vs Current Game Only logs.

17. kesä 2023 19:55 • Livini • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

I don't even have (or want to have) friends on BGA, but I'd really like to see a 'Current Game Only logs' option like valuecf suggested. I sometimes get invitations to 'suggested games' while I'm already playing a different game, and it stresses me out.

5. heinä 2023 15:23 • Stuff by Bez • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Yes, this makes the game log kinda useless and horrible if you have a lot of friends.

23. syys 2023 8:56 • Tof63 • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Hi, just a reminder that you can install a Google chrome extension to remove the friends activity log.

chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bga-chrome-extension/kchnhmpeopknjdjejognciimepllkacb

Have a nice day

27. syys 2023 16:06 • egburr • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Unbelievable that someone had to create a chrome extension to implement this. Glad I use chrome!

8. loka 2023 21:32 • Elonka • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

This is a very annoying thing, hot just for the constant messages, but because it's also telling me that people are online when they're not. I've been asking what they might be doing that is causing this, but they don't know. It will even happen when they are sound asleep! And if they're awake and talking to me, I'll be seeing it happen, and we're all mystified. They're not using multiple tabs, they're not on a mobile device, they're just in one tab, and it's on, off, on, off. As was mentioned above, it's miserable when I have a lot of friends, it's just a long scroll of useless information.

13. loka 2023 15:08 • menettm • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

I would like to add new friends.
BUT with only one friend playing often in BGA, I receive in the log during each game made, messages about its different logins/logout. It is unbearable. :(.
So I don't add or request new friends in BGA !
An option must be made. It is possible because a developper have made a Chrome extension for that.
I don't understand hy it is not already in BGA.

28. loka 2023 19:34 • aquila-sunrise • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

I would love thisf. I really don't care about seeing online/offline notices, nor can I even think of any scenario in which this information would be useful.

1. marras 2023 17:06 • PetrGasparik • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

please let us turn it off
it clogs game log a lot

3. marras 2023 17:49 • Livini • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

I don't even have or want BGA friends and I get unwanted notifications too. Once or twice, I got a message that a random user (not my friend) was online, which was probably just a bug. But I also get spammed constantly with 'suggested' games, usually while I'm already playing a realtime game, which is completely at odds with BGA's karma system as well as just being annoying, invasive and stressful.

Here is my bug report for the suggested games if anyone else finds this annoying:
boardgamearena.com/bug?id=74107

6. marras 2023 2:40 • Wolfstar50 • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

This is an absolutely awful 'feature'.

As a very new user of BGA I accepted a friend request from someone (my first friend) only to then keep seeing these notifications pop up constantly that they were online.

I became paranoid and thought they were stalking me!

Not only are these notifications distracting and annoying but made me avoid BGA due to my 'stalker'.

10. marras 2023 17:35 • Meeple Mama • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

It's very distracting to see the notifications that a friend is online, etc. when you're in a game - especially if it's a new game that you're trying to learn and want to see specific moves of your opponents.

15. marras 2023 8:58 • SkarNL • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

A quick tip to "fix" this.

On the preferences > advanced tab ( boardgamearena.com/preferences?section=advanced ), you can add your own custom CSS.
Adding the following will hide these player notifications:

.notif_playerstatus {
display:none!important;
}

Only downside is that these bug-pages won't work when you have custom CSS ... so you have to clear it if you want to add / reply to a bug.

20. joulu 2023 2:30 • KellzAB • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

3 years and over 50 reports with over 500 votes to at least have an option to remove "friend online/offline" notifications and NOT ONE developer reviewing this. Unacceptable.

2. maalis 2024 16:31 • Impeccable Nonsense • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

This feature is sorely needed. The constant notifications are really annoying when you have a lot of friends.

19. maalis 2024 19:32 • SqueekyHT • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

I wonder if the devs understand that we are not objecting to having the friend info available, just that it doesn't belong in a game log.
Add it as part of our friend section, display it on a separate page, make it time out of the log after 5 minutes, limit it to only players at the current table or add a toggle in settings. If you're not on a game page, it shows in the General Messages. So, why can't it always be there?
There are multiple ways to solve this. They can't all be "not a good idea or the cost/benefit ratio is too high"

24. maalis 2024 17:43 • Jenn_P • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

As a new player who is learning the various games and the UI, these notifications are a distraction and a reason to avoid adding more friends.

21. huhti 2024 17:32 • Sventrapance • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

It's really annoying, you need a button to turn off friends activity

23. huhti 2024 4:00 • ExaltedAngel • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Agree, super annoying

25. huhti 2024 12:01 • flurric • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Would be nice to see the team reviewing this important suggestion! ;-)

"Non-game-related" notifications should be handled separately (switched on/off or moved from game log to general log as an option)

27. huhti 2024 22:23 • Jonagill • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

I can see the value of these notifications for seeing if a player disconnects during a real-time game, but it's not necessary for asynchronous games and absolutely nonsensical that it shows the status of players who aren't even in the current game.

16. touko 2024 22:14 • ArcadeDweller • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Definitely. When I see someone has gone offline in the game log, I usually think it's a player in that game. These notifications should be separate and/or optional

20. touko 2024 15:54 • Tof63 • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Hi, just a reminder that you can install a Google chrome extension to remove the friends activity log.

chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bga-chrome-extension/kchnhmpeopknjdjejognciimepllkacb

Have a nice day

1. kesä 2024 3:19 • TripleLSupreme • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Four years and this hasn't even been reviewed/analyzed by the developers? This issue becomes even more annoying when you have lots of friends that play this on mobile and are constantly going offline and online.

26. kesä 2024 22:13 • UnholyReg • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

For the the Great Spaghetti Monster's sake, please, please let us turn this off...

11. heinä 2024 15:32 • Tristan107 • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

This is a 5 minute fix : just add a filterable custom CSS around logs showing friends status, like it was done before (there was a "notif_playerstatus" class that you could filter in "advanced" settings).

Please, this is one of the most upvoted bug, it makes some games like Hanabi very hard to play if u have too many friends and they all log out at the same hour.

At least give us an explanation on why u think this is hard to implement.

20. elo 2024 0:32 • hey_its_mojo • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

FOUR YEARS of the community to ask for the /option/ to turn this on or off.

Developers can leave it default on, but to not even consider providing the users the ability to customize their feeds with an all or nothing login notification system is wild.

22. syys 2024 22:06 • Songo • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

after years of being annoyed by this today i found out the names arent clickable, so after thousands of pops up when i finally decided to click one for the first time it did nothing ahahahah, just so bad in every possible way

24. loka 2024 17:14 • RetroRobert • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

So frustrating. I do not accept friend requests specifically for this reason. I hate having my activity log clogged up with these notifications, so my only way to manage that is to have no friends... <sniff> ;-)

6. marras 2024 15:08 • GoKartMozart • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Another +1 for this annoyance! Please give us the power to disable this, either for all "friends" or on a friend-by-friend basis

13. joulu 2024 20:03 • JCase16 • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

New chrome extension since the BGA is apparently completely ignoring this long time and heavily voted for feature request: chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bga-chrome-extension/kchnhmpeopknjdjejognciimepllkacb

29. joulu 2024 22:58 • Gentlecow • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

This should be implemented. Why spam the log?

6. helmi 2025 17:25 • Dwight_McCarthy • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

Please implement this feature. Or deactivate notifications for friends activities completely.

23. helmi 2025 18:12 • spaceman256 • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

This thread is four years old. Is it really that hard to implement such a simple option, with this much demand for it?

5. huhti 2025 22:39 • FrankJones • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

It's difficult to believe this has not been done yet. It's a "GAME LOG".

Why are there data in the game log that has nothing to do with the game?

14. huhti 2025 18:32 • hammastahna • Kehittäjät eivät ole vielä tutkineet tätä ehdotusta:

#logs > .log:not(.log_replayable) {
display: none !important;
}

worked, but also disabled some actual game messages

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