Abandoned Welcome Games

If you volunteer as a Greeter (thank you!), then you will notice that games pile up from new sign ups, who then go on to make no moves.

These games will now be removed each night (a minimum of 24 hours after creation) if there is no activity from the new player.

Hopefully this will unburden Greeters from the admin work of removing games which are highly unlikely to ever be played.

edit : Just want to credit @Hanzii with this suggestion.

@russ said
If you volunteer as a Greeter (thank you!), then you will notice that games pile up from new sign ups, who then go on to make no moves.

These games will now be removed each night (a minimum of 24 hours after creation) if there is no activity from the new player.

Hopefully this will unburden Greeters from the admin work of removing games which are highly unlikely to ever be played.

Hi Russ, thank you for that. I normally allowed them to mature to a ripe age of 72 Hours 😉

@Russ Thank you for the change. I enjoy being a greeter but wasn’t fond of removing the games from non-movers. Larry

No problem and thanks! I usually wait the normal 10 days, but this will keep my supply a little more fresh!

@Russ

Thanks so much for your help, you are quick at fixing the annoying stuff :-) 🙂
BR Hanzii

Seems that the feature has worked well last year not so much this year. I have one game which sits unstarted and was not removed:
Game 13564404

@Ponderable

Assuming you didn't delete this yourself....this game was deleted automatically as it should (eventually)?

@russ said
@Ponderable

Assuming you didn't delete this yourself....this game was deleted automatically as it should (eventually)?

yes it was maybe I was a tad impatient here. I saw that it had not seen its second midnight