Originally posted by AptPatzer How do I set it so that it makes a noise/refreshes the page/whatever when someone makes a move in one of my games?
I have the 'My Games' page loaded.. and every once in awhile I refresh it and see someone has moved.
On the main panel of any game there are 2 boxes marked "wait this game" and "wait any game"
I think if you use those the system checks every 5 minutes or so and displays a game when the opponent has moved
This isn't the functionality I'm looking for. The other two I mentioned make a noise. They do something to draw my attention.
As it is I can just have this tab open and the other two tabs will alert me with noise so it's ok for the time being. But far from ideal.
Also it's just very odd that the functionality almost exists, but you have to be in a specific game to access it. That is really arbitrary and therefore illogical and bad design.
If you haven't hidden it already, in the bottom right you will see a "bell" icon on a "dock bar".
Click that at anytime on any page to be taken to the next waiting game when it becomes available.
There is currently no alert noise - in the new UI, an optional game waiting ping will occur whenever the browser is left unattended with any RHP page open (with a bell noise too.)
edit : A release is going live next week, I'll try to work in the audio alert for that. It should exist now, as you say, and the new UI build will be sometime away still.
If you're on Android, you can download the RHP widget from Google Playstore which sends an alert to your phone when someone makes a move. I've got it and it's brilliant.
Originally posted by Sicilian Sausage Why don't you set email notifications to alert you when someone has moved, then you can receive a live notification through your email client?
Email notifications are somewhat annoying at the very least, IMO. I hate having to clean them out of my inbox. Also annoying is that they don't tell you when a game ends (that you didn't end yourself). The sound is a good idea, I think.
When the rhp app is released (whenever that may be), I will look forward to iOS notifications. In the meantime, a good alternative to emails would be tweets. Twitter feeds are inevitably cluttered, whereas email inboxes are best kept tidy.