Say it without leaving the table

If something went wrong mid game and you wanted to tell me, the menu offered you a link to the contact page. Which is to say: it offered to take you away from the table you were sitting at, in order to describe the table you were sitting at.

Your seat did in fact survive that. The session lives in the tab, so coming back put you where you were. But you had no way of knowing that, and asking somebody to abandon the thing that just broke is the wrong trade even when it works.

Report a problem now opens in a dialog. You never leave. The board is behind it, still live, and the diagnostic that gets attached describes the game you are actually looking at rather than one reconstructed from storage five minutes later: room, seats, the entity you are facing, cards held, turns, mode, level, plus skin, layout, viewport and browser. You are shown exactly what is attached before you send it.

The form itself is now written once and rendered in both places, rather than existing as a good version on the contact page and a worse copy in the game. Two copies of anything drift, and the one that drifts is always the one nobody is looking at.

Settings became a dialog too

The menu had grown a group called Table holding two native dropdowns and a row of buttons, which looked like a rendering fault in a game that has spent some effort not looking like one.

Skin, layout and mode now live in a Settings dialog. The menu keeps the things you navigate to, and the three things you configure sit together in one place where they can be laid out properly instead of stacked in a drawer.

What is left in the drawer is a short strip: Settings, the Heretic’s tour, and Report a problem, each with a mark rather than a sentence. Leaving the Cycle and beginning one are a door and a loop.

Why the contact row is not just a link

It is worth saying plainly, because it looks like an inconsistency: every other page in this project reaches me through a link in the navigation drawer, and the game does not. The game’s own row stashes the diagnostic first.

A bare link would throw that away, and then I would have a message saying it broke and no way to know what it was. The rule the site follows is that all surfaces list the same pages. This is the one deliberate exception, and it is written down as an exception with its reason attached, so that nobody later tidies it into consistency.