MichaelMcRooney

The message wasn't the expensive part. It was the widgets themselves that were expensive. We've been slowly optimizing our UI (also unfortunately de-optimizing other parts of it, which is going to be a focus in the coming weeks). As a result the killfeed isn't as big a concern as it used to be, so we just need to carve out some space in our list of priorities for it. :)

I lurk here on my main account, but I'm mostly only active on this account here on patch days. /u/freighttrainusa is here pretty much every day though.

Hola. Actually have an updoot on this. Most of the performance issues with the widget were worked out over a bunch of changes over time. Making the killfeed optionally support more lines is something that's on the todo list now, but eta is dependent on how priorities shake out. I can't say anything other than soonish. :/

Similar to what I said when we announced it. I generally think mobile players are a lot better than most people think they are (including mobile players themselves). We're watching it and if we see the quality of the matches degrading we'll make changes, but in the meantime we feel this is at least a change worth trying that could result in a better experience for both communities. :)

/u/FreightTrainUSA is here every day. I mostly post on patch days when I'm tracking issues, but I lurk on my non-epic associated account.

Update. Fix has been committed, but no ETA of when the patch will go live yet (depends on progress for other fixes), but will update this post when I know more.

edit: New updoot. Latest is that we're going to be pushing a patch sometime later this week that will contain this fix along with some others.

Yes, what he said is accurate to the best of my knowledge.

I can give an updoot on this one.

We had a fix for this that made it most of the way through testing, but caused a worse bug on some devices that we found too late to fix and test enough to be comfortable with potential knock ons, so we reverted the change to investigate more.

Tracking and investigating now.

This is accurate to the best of my knowledge.

We're waiting to see how it goes.

My .02 is that mobile players are better than most people think they are, and we wanted to try giving our pools a chance to stretch their legs a little more.

If we see it negatively affecting the experience of mobile/switch players in the wild, we'll make changes, but there's a good chance it increases the quality of matches for people that in both pools.

Also worth noting that most of the people that play within the first couple hours of launch are our best players, so it's not necessarily indicative of the play experience in the days or even hours down the road. We're watching it closely though.