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I suspect that I have been around on BBO for as long as pretty much anyone.
Never thought much of the new management but the new membership plan is stupid even for them...
It will be interesting to see which of the competing platforms picks up the exodus.
Guess that we're lucky that this happened after good competitors emerged.
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Posted Yesterday, 16:04
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Posted Yesterday, 16:32
hrothgar, on 2026-August-04, 16:04, said:
I suspect that I have been around on BBO for as long as pretty much anyone.
Never thought much of the new management but the new membership plan is stupid even for them...
It will be interesting to see which of the competing platforms picks up the exodus.
Guess that we're lucky that this happened after good competitors emerged.
Never thought much of the new management but the new membership plan is stupid even for them...
It will be interesting to see which of the competing platforms picks up the exodus.
Guess that we're lucky that this happened after good competitors emerged.
I agree with all of that except for good competitors, who are you referring to?
I am a fan from day one of RealBridge, but they are not a direct competitor.
Synrey has a decent robot but is the same corporation, as is Funbridge.
Swan had a rocky start, I have not looked since.
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Posted Yesterday, 20:39
The Basic membership is completely useless.
Who is going to visit the site to play 6 hands?
BBO must be getting no advertising money from these players if they are willing to write them off so casually.
Who is going to visit the site to play 6 hands?
BBO must be getting no advertising money from these players if they are willing to write them off so casually.
Sarcasm is a state of mind
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Posted Today, 00:58
pescetom, on 2026-August-04, 16:32, said:
I agree with all of that except for good competitors, who are you referring to?
I am a fan from day one of RealBridge, but they are not a direct competitor.
Synrey has a decent robot but is the same corporation, as is Funbridge.
Swan had a rocky start, I have not looked since.
I am a fan from day one of RealBridge, but they are not a direct competitor.
Synrey has a decent robot but is the same corporation, as is Funbridge.
Swan had a rocky start, I have not looked since.
IntoBridge?
'In an infinite universe, the one thing sentient life cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.' - Douglas Adams
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Posted Today, 02:29
I hope i can @least watch the vuegraphs without paying. Our group of 20 including many juniors are going to use Realbridge to play which will be 12 times cheaper than BBO for our needs.
Kom kit´cha vangar´th, kin patakh´ch vananch, pargh?
If it´s not important to win, tell me, why do they keep records?
(Barcht, Captain of Nir`ch Tyse´th, Klingon Warship)
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If it´s not important to win, tell me, why do they keep records?
(Barcht, Captain of Nir`ch Tyse´th, Klingon Warship)
www.bridgeball.de
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Posted Today, 07:42
chicken, on 2026-August-05, 02:29, said:
I hope i can @least watch the vuegraphs without paying. Our group of 20 including many juniors are going to use Realbridge to play which will be 12 times cheaper than BBO for our needs.
How does this work? We will be looking at alternate platforms for 8 person team games. No masterpoints, no bots.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Posted Today, 15:38
broze, on 2026-August-05, 00:58, said:
IntoBridge?
Good point.
I looked at Intobridge in the beginning, seemed a good hope but there were no pairs tournaments for me and there were rumours about Lia.
Now I see that the site is looking really slick and confident, but also that it is offering Ben (?) with the support of Laurent who was supposed to be fixing GiB for BBO (??).
Not sure what to make of that, but it looks like either Intobridge sold out to the same black hole who now decided to play them as the newco, or Lia is hopeless and BBO is even more spineless than we thought
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