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")...
@mistertoad I see nothing wrong with this, but on the other hand I don't see that it solves the problem, if the problem is "too many posts about travel and customs, and not enough about the game." No matter what the category is, if they keep posting this stuff it is going to be there in the "recent posts" list every day. From my perspective this makes no difference, because my usual mode of interaction with the forum is to look below the lobby and note the recent posts. Category doesn't seem to make a difference. I suppose maybe it does, for people who use the forum differently.
@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.
@jrp32 yes. I chose the "olive" avatar and yet I think I show up as a microphone.
@jrp32 Funny comment (but it seems to have fallen flat)...
@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!
@maggie2moo there is a Getty Museum in the Basque region?
@itsazure If you are trying to set up a table for more than two players, there is a setting for "Number of players" in the menu that opens up when you click to create a New Table.
@dan I see. Yes, I admit that the world of challenge games (and even moreso, the world of e-mail games) is alien to me.
@wlfogarty I haven't played very many challenge games, but on the basis of what I know, anybody who is willing to draw outside the lines presumably could check a word on some dictionary website before deciding to challenge. Depending on how much time the game clock allows them, of course. How would turning off that feature affect this?
@mapmakere Interesting! But it doesn't help clear up the mystery of the language's origins. It's apparently one of those "isolates."
@sakamvari This post unfortunately says little or nothing about the unique Basque language (unrelated to any other European language, with its origins still completely obscure). Knowing how to say "hello" is I guess valuable... but there is much more that could be said!
@roymccoy I don't even want to know that such sites exist.
Interesting problem. Man...the type of game you play is so different from mine, it's almost incomprehensible.
@jrp32 Funny comment (but it seems to have fallen flat)...
@mistertoad Hah! I use carrier pigeons.
(but the real-world me uses a desktop too; presumably the reason I don't see the list you mention is that I am playing in real-time, not e-mail)