New HTML Draft Room Is Now Live

[Teufel Hunden]

Doing two drafts at the same time is a hardship with the new room.
I Can't switch back and forth easily. Loads slowly.
Also, when refreshing the draft chat or even the draft room, it takes me to another draft.

Dan, I've gotten feedback on this one and it's not caused by the new HTML draft room.

In Flash, you can't open two separate drafts as well. I do understand that the loading takes 5-10 seconds longer with the new HTML draft room, but even in Flash you have to go to two separate rooms.

If you want to do multiple drafts at once, the answer is to open one in Firefox and one in Google Chrome. Heck, open a third one in Safari. By using different browsers you can have multiple draft rooms open and draft multiple times. But again, this isn't a new issue. That's who you have to do in Flash and in our old HTML draft room. And I know our competitors recommend the same thing with their draft rooms.

Hope this helps.

Maybe I am missing something. In flash it is certainly possible to have 4-5 draft rooms open at the same time with one browser. I use Firefox and just have a different tab for each draft room. The only issue I have is, if you refresh it won't keep current room on same draft often. But that is easily solved by reloading draft room from drop down menu instead of using page refresh if needed.

Not doing any slow drafts right now. Can someone that is doing more than one confirm this is still the case.

[Baseball Furies]

Greg, also still having an issue with the system not "remembering me" for my username and password requiring logging in again all the time. Cleared my login history and it's still doing the same thing. Used to never be this way. Something happened with the switch over.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Greg, also still having an issue with the system not "remembering me" for my username and password requiring logging in again all the time. Cleared my login history and it's still doing the same thing. Used to never be this way. Something happened with the switch over.

Yes, I apologize for this Mike. It's not happening to everyone, but definitely to enough. We have found that bug that as you say just recently appeared and will have it terminated soon. I will shoot you a quick fix via email and if anyone else is experiencing the same issue email me at [email protected]. This will get you through until this is fixed shortly. Sorry about the inconvenience.

[Deadheadz]

Most of this looks good BUT the player list is VERY SMALL - there should be a way to enlarge the number of players we can see at one time. LOOK at all the wasted space at the top of the page

Also to repeat an earlier request - if the chat room is popped out then we should be able to get rid of the small black box

Are you able to see any change if you zoom in or zoom out from the View menu of your browser?

I don't have a current draft running so I'm unable to test this myself but many browsers will change the size of text and other elements with the zoom function. Some of us have the text zoomed in for better readability but the zoom messes up other sites.

Hopefully adjusting it will help in this case.


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[Greg Ambrosius]

Just a reminder that the New HTML draft room isn't available yet for the Cutlines or Online Championship Leagues. I've had a few questions about that before those live online drafts, but hopefully we'll have that available starting Monday night. We needed to just test everything with dozens of leagues using it at once on the Draft Champions format before unveiling it for all contests. That will happen this week as all looks good to go.

Thanks and let's have a great week of drafting.

[Greg Ambrosius]

The new HTML Draft Room is now open for all drafts. If you are competing in any of the Cutline, Online Championship, DC Express or Satellite Leagues in the coming days and weeks look for this link to the left when you Head to the Draft Room. The old HTML link, if you still want that draft room, is at the bottom of the page.

Check it out, test it out, play around with it if you'd like. You still can use the Flash draft room if that appeals to you, the old HTML draft room or the new one. Your choice, but at the very least check out the new one when you can and test it out. Thanks all and good luck.