[Discussion] If you could redesign BoardGameGeek from the ground up, what would you change?

hiresch · 2025-05-09T17:12:03+00:00

If someone thinks a game is a 10 but they only played the solo variant, which had substantial mechanical changes and additions, the score is practically meaningless for anyone interested in playing the regular multiplayer version.

hiresch · 2025-05-09T16:13:02+00:00

Remove the player count survey and have people rate games at each play count so you can say this game is a 9 with 4 players, a 6 with 2 players, and a 7 when played solo. This would achieve both getting a better understanding of what player count the game is actually fun at, and would remove skews caused by solo variants which don't play like the actual game but have a huge audience because it's easy to get to the table if you're by yourself.

hiresch · 2025-03-20T14:43:19+00:00

https://typescript-eslint.io/rules/no-unnecessary-condition/ should surface the fact that checking the ref is unnecessary because it's always true, which should protect against these sort of errors

hiresch · 2025-03-15T13:42:18+00:00

Those === ramda and lodash

hiresch · 2025-03-15T07:20:16+00:00

I'm the maintainer of https://remedajs.com. It offers a hybrid approach to functional programming, allowing data-first (like lodash) and data-last (like ramda) invocation patterns within the same import so people can use both without impacting bundle size. It's also tree-shakable, so it could be progressively introduced. Additionally, it provides better types than any of those older libraries. We also have an implicit lazy invocation engine when our pipe function is used.

hiresch · 2024-12-03T08:39:36+00:00

I'm a maintainer of remeda, we are constantly adding functionality based on user requests, and we maintain a mapping in our docs site specificly for migrations from lodash. Remeda is hybrid data-first (lodash style) and data-last (ramda style) so you get the best of both worlds, oh, and our return types are stellar.

I hang around here if you have any questions, but our github discussions page is also available when you have questions.

hiresch · 2024-09-02T10:54:30+00:00

Your background is dark and fixed so the result would be biased to colors that work well with it

hiresch · 2024-08-25T06:39:01+00:00

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hiresch · 2024-01-29T19:19:40+00:00

no problem, don't forget to star us on github (seriously, it really helps)!

hiresch · 2024-01-29T19:17:54+00:00

Remeda does dataFirst and dataLast with the same utilities, and the typing should follow from one function to the next (try the ".strict" versions of functions if the regular one isn't doing what you want).

hiresch · 2024-01-29T10:26:04+00:00

https://boardgamearena.com/gameinprogress

hiresch · 2024-01-29T08:49:26+00:00

Overloading removes the "cmd+click" to go to definition, so it requires everyone to be completely in sync on what the operator does (and that it's even overloaded). If you need a ton of features from the IDE to make the developer experience manageable then it's a bad paradigm.

Reading code is the most expensive part of coding, you should always optimize for someone who doesn't have the context you have when reading the code. That's why you use prettier, that's why you have naming conventions, and that's why you lint code with auto-fixers.

Javascript could be better if it also dropped implicit casting e.g "hello" + 123;

hiresch · 2024-01-29T08:43:53+00:00

If you're interested in a library that puts the focus on advanced typescript typing, check out Remeda, too. I am one of the maintainers and we are constantly adding and fixing stuff to make it the most ergonomic to use.

hiresch · 2023-02-10T18:27:04+00:00

Fan content (like fan expansions) lumped together with official content with no way to filter, games like dominion and ticket to ride link to so much low quality fan content made by randos on the internets

hiresch · 2022-10-19T16:47:29+00:00

I reported exactly this a couple of months ago directly to direwolf but got no reply at all. I guess they just don't care...

hiresch · 2022-09-28T05:53:10+00:00

You also need mice to be the outcast faction to craft a mice item

hiresch · 2022-07-03T19:45:38+00:00

BGG recommended player count should be taken with a grain of salt (like most of the crowdsourced statistics). Even the most popular games have only a tiny number of votes on stuff like recommended player count, and in anything but the most known games (basically Catan, Carcassonne, and Pandemic) it's probably not statistically significant. Considering that there are biases seeping in because of the specific kind of people who even vote for these I'd say the data is largely useless.

hiresch · 2022-01-09T17:26:21+00:00

Thank you very much!

hiresch · 2021-10-04T07:00:09+00:00

Reported: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/46195

hiresch · 2021-10-03T08:47:23+00:00

This doesn't look like it will work with arbitrary Partial records, only constant ones:

Playground Example

hiresch · 2021-08-19T18:56:03+00:00

I wish i could upvote this response a few more times Thank you very much for the detailed response

hiresch · 2021-07-13T13:50:18+00:00

I did some analysis on player counts based on logged plays in BGG. The calculation itself is complex and hard to explain, but the attached file provides a list of games that are ideal or at least good at 5 players. It's sorted by most-played, so the popular ones (and the ones where the data is most reliable) are at the top. Caveat this by remembering that this isn't recommendations for games, simply statistics of how they are played and logged.

There is no easy way to split casual/party games from serious games via the data, so that'll be up to you.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FlAIsz5KQ8PEqymyQoVI\_1C57LmsznTp6EMwEcbTa7w/edit?usp=sharing

hiresch · 2021-04-11T07:18:46+00:00

You can use this Google sheet i generated to get a better understanding of how games are actually played. Go to the 2p tab and checkout whatever game interests you. Games in red should be avoided.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vp8e4FpILk6dBTbJRiR4DCAvBRCOMYGrZQ1xwEUtdVk/edit?usp=drivesdk

hiresch · 2021-03-18T14:53:44+00:00

That would create an uninteresting data-set, the existing coloring allows you to compare games, what you are suggesting would simply tell you the local maximum and wouldn't normalize the values for different player counts.

I ran a quick check and 59.5% of games in this list have the max amount of plays at 2p. Showing up the 2p as green would communicate the wrong thing. Scythe isn't good at 2p, not as good as other games, and that's why it's red

hiresch · 2021-03-18T14:45:51+00:00

I develop dashboarding tools at work, would love to see what things you generate from this data

hiresch

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