"1 games waiting"

How come this chess site, which is so sophisticated in so many ways, is unable to omit the 's' from games when there is only one game waiting?

Originally posted by FMF
How come this chess site, which is so sophisticated in so many ways, is unable to omit the 's' from games when there is only one game waiting?

What does it matter?

Originally posted by FMF
How come this chess site, which is so sophisticated in so many ways, is unable to omit the 's' from games when there is only one game waiting?

Well, they tried that, but it showed "0 game waiting" too, and that drew a lot more complaints. 😛

Originally posted by FMF
How come this chess site, which is so sophisticated in so many ways, is unable to omit the 's' from games when there is only one game waiting?

Where are you reading that? I have ONE GAME WAITING.

I wouldn't complain about the wording of this function, at least it can count correctly. If it ain't broke ...

Originally posted by Kewpie
I wouldn't complain about the wording of this function, at least it can count correctly. If it ain't broke ...

It is broke, though.

Originally posted by venda
What does it matter?

What does your question matter?

Originally posted by SwissGambit
Well, they tried that, but it showed "0 game waiting" too, and that drew a lot more complaints. 😛

Well, perhaps we should complain about both.

Originally posted by FMF
It is broke, though.

No, only dented, it's just a cosmetic thing.

Originally posted by FMF
Well, perhaps we should complain about both.

Hmm...the code looks correct to me:

document.write('<a class="loggedInInfo" href="/core/gameserve.php">' + nGamesWaiting + ' game' + (nGamesWaiting!=1?'s':'')

The part in bold means that an 's' is only added to 'game' when the number of games waiting is not equal to 1.

Out of curiosity, do you see '1 games waiting' on every page, or just some of them?

Edit: confirmed. I just started a game and it says "1 game waiting".

Originally posted by FMF
What does your question matter?

It doesn't ,just like it doesn't matter if it says 1 game waiting or 1 games waiting.

Originally posted by venda
It doesn't ,just like it doesn't matter if it says 1 game waiting or 1 games waiting.

It matters to me. Isn't this what this particular forum is for?

Originally posted by SwissGambit
Out of curiosity, do you see '1 games waiting' on every page, or just some of them?

Every page. Going all the way back to when I joined. It's taken me almost 7 years to break my silence.

Oh, it appears to have been fixed! Thank you.

Originally posted by FMF
How come this chess site, which is so sophisticated in so many ways, is unable to omit the 's' from games when there is only one game waiting?

Naturally, the easiest 'fix' would be to qualify 'gameS' with matched pair parenthesis, 'game(s)' being the result. Personally I don;t think there are any benefits to changing what is already evident here; it's just my opinion based upon the fact that folk already understand the difference, and I'd wager very few would even notice any 'correction' ??
Edit: I note you mention a fix...although I can't see it, it does surprise me !