On mobile, the best experience is to add the web page to your home screen, that way the bars in the mobile browser don't obscure the game board, but when doing so there is no way to send someone a link to your game. A share button that hooks into to the phone's share API (see a youtube video for an example) should be added.

I think this should be changed to something like "PlayHex"

Parse the chat message, turning coordinates into spans that have a different styling. When these spans are clicked, highlight the cell on the board they represent.

Case here: https://playhex.org/games/16bdcbb7-36ae-408d-9762-b063790b4f63

For new players who don’t know PlayHex yet, it should be clear when the AI is computing a move, or the player think he still have to make the game starts.

It happens more when players choose high level Mohex (take ~20sec per move),
or when there is no fast worker: katahex intuition can take ~20sec on first move, mohex 2 take 4sec per move, sometimes 8sec when there is 2 ai games at same time (moves are queued).

Here is time taken for moves computation when no fast worker available and 2 AI games at same time:

A solution would be to show a "computing" icon next to AI username

This canceled game has Hexworld link as expected: https://playhex.org/games/21ef02e9-9e88-4767-b5ef-db45f737f7d3

This one have not: https://playhex.org/games/9b302b37-fd56-468a-b316-b4ff4362be64

Seems that it occurs on correspondance and canceled games. Canceled game should always have Hexworld link, although those game won't have much views, or no move.

In this case, it would help to see that first move was a pass move.

If I join an afk game, I wait for opponent but is afk, and I can still cancel, make cancel button softly blink to suggest to cancel game.

Useful to new players that don’t know yet the UI, and are maybe worried to lose a game and impact rating.

• When it is possible to cancel, host is offline and I wait, make cancel button blinks
• Show explanation in cancel confirmation popin to say canceling is not a lost and won’t impact rating.

When generating a SGF file for a game, add BR and WR with players ratings.

Ratings must be player rating at the time the game was played.

It makes it way to cheat the rankings. I also have had multiple guests accept my ranked games, and if I had to guess, are never going to make a move.

I'd like to donate to this project, but don't see a way to do that.

Click on an ended game, then click the PlayHex logo. The title stays at the title for the game.

proposed changes:

{player} won the game! -> {player} won!
{player} won by time! -> {player} won on time!
{player} won by resignation! -> {player} won!
{player} wins the game! -> {player} wins!
{player} wins by time! -> {player} wins on time!
{player} wins by resignation! -> {player} wins!

I like that we can't see a hexworld link for real time games, but I do think it should be there for correspondence.

It would be nice to have user-configurable display of the shading patterns on the board. Some of the possible options:

• uniformly colored hexes (now)
• tri-color checkerboard-like pattern (used on http://www.mseymour.ca/hexdb.html). makes it easier to see a chain of bridges
• highlight even rows concentrically (used on https://hexworld.org/board/ and BGA)
• a potential experimental one to highlight all height-5 rows in a grid pattern (not used anywhere right now afaik but was proposed before)

Additionally, an independent option to display "star points", i.e., for example, small dots on all four 4-4 points (used on playok), would be useful. The star points (and the aforementioned patterns) make it easier to play bullet games.

(Personally I like the checkerboard-like pattern the most.)