Pause button should not take you back to tournament.

After a tournament game often people will often want to take a minute to look at their game. That should be the function of the pause button. But if you press it not only pauses but takes you back to the tournament page and then you have to navigate back in your browser to see the game you just played. Why should pressing the pause button take you back to the tournament when there is another button right above it to do that? Please make it so the pause button pauses, and the back to tournament takes you back to the tournament.

@comeonbruhdontgiveup said in #1:
> After a tournament game often people will often want to take a minute to look at their game.

But I don't. Or not often at least.

For me, the existing behavior covers my most usual need: when I pause it's because I need a pause from the computer and when I'm back minutes later I like being in the arena so I can hit the JOIN button again. If changed the way you suggest I would need that extra click or 2 clicks to join the tournament again.

There are so many reasons to want to pause. Analyzing is not the most often for me (after all I prefer not to waste tournament time and analyze after the arenas). And for analyzing there's even a specific button already.

> take a minute to look at their game. That should be the function of the pause button

No. That's the function of the analysis button.

> Why should pressing the pause button take you back to the tournament?

To pause it for you, while letting you follow the rest of the tournament and being able to join again when you're done with your pause.

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For the record, in the situation you describe, i.e. when I want to analyse the game, I hit the ANALYSIS button (right under PAUSE), and then a blue box on the bottom of the page appears letting me pause or resume the arena.



If I want to pause for good I can do so there, but if I just want to "take a minute to look at my game", then I have the RESUME button right there when I'm done with the analysis.

@pepellou said in #2:
> But I don't. Or not often at least.
You don't OFTEN do it. That means that sometimes you do. That's the same with me and probably most people. That's what the button should be for, those times when you do.

> For me, the existing behavior covers my most usual need: when I pause it's because I need a pause from the computer and when I'm back minutes later I like being in the arena so I can hit the JOIN button again. If changed the way you suggest I would need that extra click or 2 clicks to join the tournament again.
Absolutely not true. If you want to take a break from the computer you have only to "click back to the tournament" when you return. Not even one extra click involved I promise.

> There are so many reasons to want to pause. Analyzing is not the most often for me (after all I prefer not to waste tournament time and analyze after the arenas). And for analyzing there's even a specific button already.
First of all I didn't say "analyze". I don't like to waste time in a tournament either. I said take a quick look at it. There might be one key position you want to see what the computer says was the right move or where you went astray in the opening. Not a full analysis.
And it's kind of strange to hear you first say how you like to take breaks in the middle of a tournament and then say you don't want to waste time.

> To pause it for you, while letting you follow the rest of the tournament and being able to join again when you're done with your pause.
How often do people want to pause a tournament they are playing in to just sit there and look at it? That doesn't even go along with what you said earlier about taking a break from the computer. No, it would be far more common for people to want to pause it to take a brief look at their game or get a drink or something than to just sit there and watch the tournament they are supposed to be playing in lol.

> I hit the ANALYSIS button (right under PAUSE),
> and then a blue box on the bottom of the page appears letting me pause or resume the arena.
According to your own logic making us do extra clicks for no reason is a bad thing. So then why should you have to press pause after you went to the analysis board? When you're done with the analysis you would click to return back to the tournament anyway.
Good design involves buttons serving the function that they are named for. Not calling a button pause when it really means pause and I'm going to take you back to the tournament page. Especially when there is a button right above it that is called, you guessed it, "return to tournament".

@comeonbruhdontgiveup
> How often do people want to pause a tournament they are playing in to just sit there and look at it?
I do it for resting, deciding on whether to continue the tournament or leave. Resting in tournament data than on board. Without it, you cannot really go to tournament page smoothly without having to play another game (arena). Pause on the tournament page also is pressed when you decide to quit the tournament. (Rather than not going to the tournament page, you'd still be paired in swiss.) And that is what the pause button is reffering to.

(Your text block is too long for me to quote and reply to a specific line. Click-drag select to delete the other lines isn't smooth on phone.)
I am confused to your proposed purpose of the pause button, you needn't click it if you wish to analyze a bit, just analyse. The board is there in front. If you need the engine to help you in the post-mortem, just click "Analysis Board".

@comeonbruhdontgiveup said in #3:
> That's what the button should be for, those times when you do.

Shouldn't it be for the most common use case instead?

> If you want to take a break from the computer you have only to "click back to the tournament" when you return. Not even one extra click involved I promise.
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> First of all I didn't say "analyze". [...] I said take a quick look at it.

Then don't hit any button. You can take a quick look right where you are without any extra click, I promise.

> How often do people want to pause a tournament they are playing in to just sit there and look at it?

In my case, it's every time. When I'm back I want to see the tournament situation before joining again.
Reasons not to join back vary from "ugh, everybody paused" to "I no longer have chances to win it", and many others.
Sometimes I don't even intend to join back but I still want to spectate, the same I can spectate tournaments that I didn't join.

> So then why should you have to press pause after you went to the analysis board?

You don't have to. After you're done with the analysis you have the button there for you in the blue bar. No need to find a way to navigate back to the tournament.