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#87489: "Use select drop-down to enter guesses"
acknowledged: Developers agree that it is a good idea and intend to work on it
What is this report about?
What happened ? Please select from below
Suggestion: in my opinion, the following would greatly improve the game implementation
Detailed description
• Please explain your suggestion precisely and concisely so that it's as easy as possible to understand what you mean.
The click-click-click of the current system is slow and bug-prone. I want a normal HTML <select> element to choose my guess from a list. Again here you can repeat the words. The items in the drop-down should look like "1 - CARROT" so there's no confusion what I'm guessing.• What is your browser?
Google Chrome v112
Report history
28. Apr 2023 17:21 • quietmint • This suggestion has not been analyzed by delopers yet:
Mobile phones already handle select drop-down natively in a good way, much better than the click-click-click of the current system.
28. Apr 2023 17:24 • quietmint • This suggestion has not been analyzed by delopers yet:
Example of how Android renders the select drop-down after click (it's good): i.ibb.co/kSzHd7S/Screenshot-20230428-112231.png
19. May 2023 22:12 • quietmint • This suggestion has not been analyzed by delopers yet:
Animation showing how it would function on desktop: iili.io/Hg1wmEF.gif
19. May 2023 22:17 • quietmint • This suggestion has not been analyzed by delopers yet:
In the above mockup, I styled the <select> box like this to make the border and the dropdown arrow disappear:
-moz-appearance: none;
-webkit-appearance: none;
border: 0;
background: transparent;
padding: 5px 0;
width: 20px;
-moz-appearance: none;
-webkit-appearance: none;
border: 0;
background: transparent;
padding: 5px 0;
width: 20px;
9. Jul 2023 21:17 • Avelon • This suggestion has not been analyzed by delopers yet:
I have a minimum ping of 650ms with a satellite internet connection. The fewer pages and actions I need to go through to make a choice, the better. Selecting numbers is particularly painful in this game during lag spikes, where it can take several seconds between each click to register (or it fails to register a click entirely due to timeout).
Drop-down menu would be much faster and less painful for everyone, but especially players with high pings and unstable connections, as only 1 action needs to be sent to the game.
Drop-down menu would be much faster and less painful for everyone, but especially players with high pings and unstable connections, as only 1 action needs to be sent to the game.
21. Jul 2023 7:07 • epsalon • This suggestion has not been analyzed by delopers yet:
Also best if you can have keyboard bindings so you can just type the numbers on your keyboard.
19. Dec 2023 0:24 • quietmint • This suggestion has not been analyzed by delopers yet:
Using a normal <select> dropdown would indeed automatically support keyboard bindings after clicking on the dropdown.
20. Dec 2024 16:50 • joezg • Developers agree that it is a good idea and intend to work on it:
For now I changed the click-to-set UI to be more responsive and hopefully easier to use. It is not perfect so I might try to improve it or change it to something completely different.
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