Doesn’t matter if you show 100 ads.

The average person has less self-control than you, sadly.

Huh? Is that “AII” or “All” or what?

Yeah, we can no longer msg other participants without paying. I guess they’ve picked up on it having dating potential since it has a “Single” designation so it may get added to Match’s ever-growing portfolio down the years, haha.

No, but I used to be more active until I saw that they started to increasingly prevent you from talking to other participants, and even seeing who other people are (can’t even tell gender or anything) unless you paid for their higher tier. I literally saw it get added out of the blue after years of no such restrictions, and they’ve only dug deeper and deeper. I couldn’t even connect with someone with whom I met just because I didn’t attempt to get their number immediately on the spot.

I hope they eventually crumple from hiring stupider and stupider team leads, then.

Good thing none of us have iPhones here, right, guys? Right?

It’s just platform-milking, just like Meetup.com’s latest antics; there isn’t deep analysis needed to everything, haha. “Capitalism” is totally a legitimate answer despite being just one word.

I think you should mention the Lemmy browser as well; I had no problem using Summit + Waterfox just now.

I don’t get it.

Clandestine organizations are hard to keep a tight rein on. All it takes is one deviant to sway others and start a foolish snowball effect…

Thanks, TIL! Here I was thinking it was all manual!

1. You don’t need premium membership to play premium-only games; you only need 1 person at the table to have a subscription and then everyone else can enjoy the game for free. There are usually tables open looking for players, and if there is no open table to join, free participants can even put out a request for a subscriber to make a new table for strangers to join.
2. You can get 1 month of premium membership at a time for every 100 gift points that you acquire (which gradually expire if left unused). You can gain 5 gift points for winning for your first time at any game, so you can even rig it with someone else to just win at Battleship, Chess, etc. You can also acquire more gift points by contributing to tutorials, wiki entries per game (rules, strategies, etc.), or I think even filing bug reports or improvement ideas per game that get approved by the developers.
3. TTS and Tabletopia are 100% manual so you must already know the rules really well per game, whereas BGA holds your hand through all legal moves, so my circle of friends and I have even used it to learn new games blind (even though they also often have a tutorial). It also has a note system so you can type notes for yourself to remember things between rounds, if you choose to play in the optional turn-based mode (make your move whenever you’re next able to, versus real-time in which all players must be online simultaneously).

Board Game Arena is so good already, though!

Nice find, thanks! What else do you do that I don’t know? Haha.

Wait, what’re those last two?

Dang… Thanks for the reminder about Milkytracker. I gotta dig into that… Also, I’m fine with that top GUI as well, haha! Unclear boundaries are visually tricky to me, too.

my idea of a good GUI

Examples?

only

As in, what, you want more? Such as…?

Fine, then: LLMs hallucinate and make mistakes. You can’t beat rules in grammar; get detailed enough and everything will work. My point is that they are actively working on refining rules, which is the best any of us could ask for.

You may like to read @thatonecoder@lemmy.ca’s comment, which basically says that they’re working on patching these holes.