[zebellah]

Hello,

why BBO do not let new nicknames log-in from downloadable BBO program

rather than browser ?

why should we use browser for new members ?

[barmar]

We understand that many users have gotten used to it and don't want to switch. So they can continue to use it. But new users don't have old habits and preferences, so we want them using the current version, not the old, unmaintained version.

[TylerE]

Somewhat ironically, at this point in time it's looking more and more like Flash is the dead man walking, while the Win32 API will wobble on for decades...

[UdcaDenny]

barmar, on 2013-July-18, 09:06, said:

We understand that many users have gotten used to it and don't want to switch. So they can continue to use it. But new users don't have old habits and preferences, so we want them using the current version, not the old, unmaintained version.

Its a pity since the classic version is much better in many ways. I have a friend, new member on BBO, and wanted to help him using the program and cant do that with the classic version so I also had to use webversion. When you click on players names to make them friends a do notes the menu close down before you are ready, very confusing. In the classic version it stays until you use the savebutton so many times upgrades doesnt mean improvements. Another thing which was better in classic program was that you could post saved bridgemovies to other players. In webversion you can only post newly played hands and not older hands. Dont see any meaning with such limitations.

[barmar]

UdcaDenny, on 2013-July-30, 07:08, said:

Its a pity since the classic version is much better in many ways. I have a friend, new member on BBO, and wanted to help him using the program and cant do that with the classic version so I also had to use webversion. When you click on players names to make them friends a do notes the menu close down before you are ready, very confusing. In the classic version it stays until you use the savebutton so many times upgrades doesnt mean improvements.

Click the "Pin" button to keep the profile from disappearing until you dismiss it.

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Another thing which was better in classic program was that you could post saved bridgemovies to other players. In webversion you can only post newly played hands and not older hands. Dont see any meaning with such limitations.

Any hands you can find in the "Hands & Results" section can be sent to other players. And if you want to save some hands permanently, you can put them into your personal folders in Hands & Results.

We had the discussion in another thread, we understand that it's a misfeature that you don't have access to all your hands from history. We have them in a database, maybe some day we'll come up with a way to make them accessible.