Hear, hear. This feature is one of the last remaining bits needed to make the new Lexulous work as well as the old site (with all the bells and whistles that have been added). We all know change is difficult, but by now this new place is feeling a lot like home! Just please give us the ability to accept or reject players from our tables... tyvm

Many thanks to the Lexulous team for all the hard work, and the improvements in New Lexulous that have become apparent in the past few weeks. Here is something that I think many players would like to see implemented: The ability to accept or reject players who come to one's table. (This was a feature of the old Lexulous, but these days it seems as if, when you set a table, you are obliged either to play anyone who joins it or else delete the game.) If it ends up not being possible to accept-or-reject, how about bulking up Censor so that people whom one has censored can't join one's game? As far as I can see, at present they are able to do so. Thanks again...

@betterlate1-0 Indeed, this happened overnight. Personally I don't really feel the need for these tabs but perhaps some do. How about adding one for "I strongly suspect you have an anagram program running in the background" .... since that seems to be an oft-expressed sentiment in these games!

@middlechild7 I was pretty unhappy with this new format too, at first (several months ago). But, having played under it pretty often recently, I have come to like it a lot. It offers almost all the features we were used to in the old Lexulous, though they aren't always in the same "place." And there are some things they did not use to have: for instance, you can see a much larger number of your past games than used to be possible.
Here is the most relevant point: Going back to the old format is not possible, NOT because of any decision made by Lexulous itself. The old game was based on an old Internet technology (I think it was "Flash"?) that has now been phased out almost everywhere else. Most browsers no longer support it. So if they had not gone and rebuilt Lexulous from the ground up, there would be no Lexulous any more. Personally I am grateful they did, and I am quite impressed by the amount of work that went into what is, after all, a free game!
(as always, "your mileage may vary")...

@jrp32 yes. I chose the "olive" avatar and yet I think I show up as a microphone.

@mistertoad I'm not sure it's just a matter of religious people. The word in question, when spelled with a small j, is an insult and plays into odious stereotypes, which offend many people. I agree that "religious guilt" is unlikely to be an issue here.

@dan-mitchell I agree. If you know the other player is passing, it will affect your own strategy. Three passes per player is the correct way to do it.

@scantron I'd very much like to see this option added, too! people keep inviting me to games and I keep rejecting them because I don't want one that is either too slow or too fast.

@betterlate1-0 emojis seem still to be there, I just made one!

@mapmakere it's very easy to miss because (as far as I can see anyway), at the end of the game the chat box swaps out for the dictionary and you see a definition of the final word. but the chat box is still there, if you click the tab.

@whtever-0 I use a computer and only a computer. It's the only way to quickly place tiles using the keyboard in timed games. (just saying )

@mapmakere atque Linus! (Van Pelt)

@roymccoy point(s) taken. I guess I just don't mind it all that much, compared to some people, because [1.] most of my time on Lexulous is spent playing (and trying to get) rapid real-time games, not in Forums; [2.] as is the case with you, the international-language greetings never bothered me that much because they don't get in the way of #1; [3.] the random trivial information in the travelogue posts is easy for me to ignore, even though these days most of the posts showing in the "Latest Forum Posts" section seem to be either travelogues or reactions to them; and [4.] I don't really care that much about either the Forums or about Lex. staffers devoting time to them--since, for me, the game is working fine these days (compared to the many glitches we had in real-time games back in the early weeks of 2021). Clearly this (#4) is not the case with everyone, and people have real issues they would like to see being worked on. As for sakamvari and agentcarter, I have no solid information, but based on what we have been seeing, it may be that they are not really in any way involved in coding, or in dealing directly with the game issues. Could it be that they are what you might call "user experience concierges," and the travel stuff was thought of as a way to make this place more interesting for users? (I'm not saying it WORKED, mind you ... just that this seems to have been the intention.)

@roymccoy not sure, but here's what I said in a different thread the other day: "basically what it looks like we have going on here is an attempt by Lexulous to expand on the "hello" in international languages that we have been seeing for many years without, to my knowledge, anyone complaining."

@mistertoad So this is an interesting and, perhaps, a necessary debate. I can't say I personally get a lot out of the travelogue-y posts, myself; but it feels a little misguided to criticize it as a "private blog" effort, given that it seems to be Lexulous staff and administrators who are creating them. And, from what I can see, citing their sources with embedded links. "Sponsorship" I don't know about... but basically what it looks like we have going on here is an attempt by Lexulous to expand on the "hello" in international languages that we have been seeing for many years without, to my knowledge, anyone complaining. You may have noticed that these posts are all appearing in the "Creative Corner" forum section, which is different from the sections specifically set aside for new feature requests, comments about the game, dictionary words, etc. So, it seems to me that it's part of the effort Lex. has put in to make this more of a social site (with profile pictures, etc.). The effort may be misguided, and may not go anywhere, but they are trying to improve it. It does feel a little intrusive, I'll grant you, since the travel posts appear at the top of the list, being the most recent.

@zaph Now that you mention it, why do we even have a two-letter word list, especially one that is displayed so prominently? Isn't part of the game simply knowing what words one can form from different mixes of letters? Some are better at it than others. (right?)

@dan-mitchell to clarify: when I said "they did have a ratings change" I was doing my best to recall how the old Flash game worked.

@dan-mitchell I do think it could be handled better. To the best of my recollection they did have a ratings change after a tie, depending on the players' respective ratings ... but IMHO ratings should not be affected after a drawn game.

This information is still there, though it is probably not where you expect it to be. If you click on a players name in the lobby list, you first get a screen with a lot of information about their gameplay, and down in the lower right of that box is your record against them. There are also three tabs. If you click the Games tab, you will get a lot more information, including your respective wins and losses.
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@denenbsa if you are talking about a Kindle Fire, it may be because the Fire runs on its own operating system (similar to Android, but with its own quirky features that are controlled by Amazon). That's my best guess!