What's new in the portal

Fixed a bug where saving an edited listing (e.g. after changing the price) ended with an error. The same fix covers messages to sellers and in orders, and changing your profile photo — these could previously fail silently despite a "sent" confirmation.

Editing a listing no longer sends it back for approval — updated descriptions, photos or prices save immediately and the listing stays visible the whole time.

Your own listing now has a "Change price" button — changing just the price saves immediately and does not send the listing back for approval, so it never drops off the list. Full editing works as before. In an auction that already has bids, the starting price stays locked.

Fixes from a new-user audit: the sign-in icon is back in the mobile header (it was hidden on every typical phone screen), offer pages now show a price bar with a shortcut to the purchase panel instead of burying it under the description, and opening a page that needs an account no longer claims your session expired.

Registration: password requirements now match what we actually enforce (10 characters, an uppercase letter, a digit — no special character needed), fields work with password managers, and the country list now covers the US, Canada, Japan, the Philippines, Australia and the rest of the world.

Start lists are back on "X Open Pool Championship" tournament pages — US Open and UK Open showed none, because the name matcher dropped the country prefix and preferred showing nothing over showing another event’s field.

A new "Returns and complaints" page (/returns), linked from every footer: when the 14-day right of withdrawal applies, what holds when buying from a private seller, who to complain to, and what to do when a seller goes quiet.

Two new pages: "Billiard tables" (/billiard-tables) brings pool and snooker tables together with cloths, cushions, slates and lighting, and "Coin-operated pool tables" (/coin-operated-pool-tables) is aimed at pub and club owners — coin mechanisms, ball return, service and transport.

Every category on the site now has its own description — another 22 were added: ferrules, joints, bumpers, glues and tools, cue service, table parts, pockets and nets, assembly tools, covers, cue racks, scoreboards, carom and training balls, training aids, unique and vintage, gadgets, books, autographed items, transport, coaches, plus the Passion and Gifts and Services sections.

Seventeen subcategories now have their own buying guides: butts, shafts and extensions (pool and snooker separately), complete snooker cues, tips, chalks, racks, gloves, cue care, pool and snooker balls, cloths, lighting, slate beds and cushions. Until now those pages carried only a title and a list of listings.

The "Billiard Balls" category now has a buying guide: 57.2 mm (American pool), 50.8 mm (English pool), 52.5 mm (snooker) and 61.5 mm (carom) sizes, "How to choose professional billiard balls" and "Aramith Premier vs Duramith" sections, plus four ways to tell a genuine set from a fake. The FAQ gained a "How do I spot genuine Aramith balls?" question, and prices — previously inconsistent between two answers — now sit in one place and are labelled as indicative retail prices.

The "Snooker Cues" category now has a full description: ash or maple, 3/4 or 1/2 joint, cue length and weight, plus a "Which snooker cue should a beginner buy?" section linking to complete cues, shafts, butts, cue service and snooker tables. The price shown comes from the cheapest current listing in the category instead of a hand-written range.

The contact page now shows company details: name, VAT ID, address, phone and the GDPR address. Tournament and event pages have clearer Google descriptions, and each event links to the equipment for its discipline.

The terms and privacy pages now load with the server response instead of flashing empty. The snooker counter explains scoring, fouls and the free ball. Page titles and descriptions in Google results were corrected, and player profiles got clearer headings.

Expanded descriptions for the table categories: 7ft, 8ft and 9ft sizes with the room they need, a paragraph on slate beds and table weight, links to the guides on choosing, pricing and weight.

Terms §10a: shop integrations are free provided a visible banner or link to BidBil is placed on the shop website (14 days to add it). The Integrations page now has ready-made banners with embed code and a new FAQ entry.

Seven new brand pages: Lucasi, McDermott, Peradon, Rasson, Kamui, Simonis and Taom, each with a description, FAQ and current listings. The complete cues, break cues, jump cues, shafts, cases, pool tables and snooker tables subcategories got their own descriptions with links to the guides.

Email notifications without an account: new-listing alerts per category and a weekly BidBil newsletter (results, upcoming tournaments, new listings, a guide). Sign up under listings, under articles and in the calendar, unsubscribe with one click. The TV screen and bracket printout show the live results address.

Category descriptions and FAQ moved below the listings. The top of a category page now shows only the name and a short blurb, listings are visible without scrolling.

After an overnight tablet/TV simulation of tournaments (round robin, whisky, 2KO + cup, groups + cup): 1) undoing a mistake from the tablet returns the corrected match to the SAME table and bumps the not-yet-started next pair back to the queue; 2) "Undo" always targets the most recently finished match on that table; 3) a point tapped during a brief server outage is no longer lost — it queues and saves once the connection is back; 4) the tablet shows match context ("Group 2 · R1", "WB R2", "Cup R1"); 5) TV shows pairs already called to a table with an "up next" badge instead of "waiting for matches"; 6) after the tournament, the standings below the podium no longer repeat podium players.

New "Billiard cues" page gathers pool and snooker cues in one place, with a buying guide and FAQ. Every page footer now links to the equipment categories, and tournament articles end with a gear section. The "Balls", "Accessories" and "Tables" categories carry "billiard" in their names; old addresses redirect.

The "Balls" category has its own description: sizes and sets for pool, snooker and carom, training balls, why phenolic. Ball subcategories got their own Google page titles.

The "Accessories" category got its own description: what lives under cases, chalk, gloves, racks and training aids, and where to find tips and cloth. Every accessories subcategory now has its own Google title and description.

The "Tables and Equipment" category has its own description: pool and snooker table sizes, what to check when buying a used slate table and what sits in each subcategory (cloth, lighting, covers, parts). Pool Tables and Snooker Tables got their own Google page titles.

The "Snooker Cues" category now has its own description: how a snooker cue differs from a pool cue (tip, ash vs maple, 3/4 jointed), what sits in each subcategory and how to buy. Subcategories sharing a name under pool and snooker (Complete cues, Shafts, Butts, Extensions) now have distinguishable Google page titles.

The "Pool Cues" category got its own description: what lives in each subcategory (complete, one-piece, break and jump cues, shafts, butts, extensions), which brands show up most often and how to buy — auction, Buy Now or contacting the seller. It also has a unique Google title and description instead of one shared by every cue category.

TV mode now calls matches out loud: "Attention. Mariusz versus Wojtek. Table 3." When a pair gets a table, the chime plays and the spoken announcement follows — players hear their name and table number without watching the screen. Toggle (speaker icon) sits next to the fullscreen button and the setting is remembered. Works in Polish and English using the system voice — nothing to install.

Create-tournament form: (1) the description under "Groups + Cup" no longer talks about 2KO — it was showing another format's text. (2) For "Groups + Cup" you can now set how many groups and how many advance — leave it empty to let the system decide (as before). Type "3" groups and you immediately see a live preview: "15 players → 3 groups of 5. 6 advance to the bracket." If the numbers do not add up (e.g. advancing 5 out of a group of 5), you get told exactly what to fix.

TV mode is now properly televisual — built for the venue projector. When a match ends, the whole screen announces the winner with the score and a jingle, and if the bracket already knows the road ahead it immediately shows who the winner plays next. Every live match card shows the stakes: "winner plays next against…" (a name, or the pair the opponent will come from). A Match point badge appears at match-ball, and a pulsing Hill-Hill when it is one frame apiece from the finish. Score changes pop with an animation, so you can see from across the room that something just happened. Each card also shows that match's race-to (playoffs and finals can be longer).

A third tournament review — fixes caught overnight. The tablet snooker counter: after a dropped-and-restored connection it syncs with the computer again (it used to silently stop), and when a table gets its next match the counter starts clean instead of showing the previous match's break. Most important: if you try to confirm a frame in an already-finished match, or the server rejects it, the whole break tally no longer vanishes from the screen (it used to clear even though the frame was not saved). "Highest break" in player stats now also counts breaks from lost frames — a career-best break very often comes in a frame you lose, and it was not being counted before. A snooker match participant can finally run the counter on their own match without a permissions error. Tournaments mirrored from external sources (EPBF, CueScore) are now fully locked against editing — no panel click can diverge them from the original.

A large tournament speed-up package. The tournament page opens without a spinner flash (server-rendered data is used immediately instead of being fetched a second time), and the frame history shows real winner names instead of "Unknown" for logged-in players. The TV screen and referee tablet send several times fewer requests (a burst of quick points refreshes the view once, not three times), so scores react faster under full venue load. The tablet's 20-minute "start your match" sound reminder actually fires now (the timer used to reset in a loop, so the alarm never went off). Player statistics and the homepage tournament list are computed in the database instead of shipping hundreds of thousands of rows. Country flags weigh ~1 KB instead of up to 100 KB. Live notifications reconnect after a failed first attempt (they used to silently die for the rest of the session).

The "Snooker Cues" and "Table Service" categories now have their own FAQ sections answering the most common questions: how a snooker cue differs from a pool cue, what a handmade cue costs, ash vs maple, and what a recloth, transport and levelling cost. Previously these pages showed generic cue and table information.

A second audit before the Polish amateur 8-ball tournament — this time reviewing yesterday's fixes and the areas the first pass did not cover. The most serious find: "Start tournament" hung for a minute and then failed, leaving the tournament started but with no tables assigned (a defect from yesterday's batch — starting is now instant). Second: knockout results could not be corrected — both "Undo" and "Reset" refused, claiming the players had already played later matches, when in fact those were their earlier group matches. Correcting a knockout match now works, as long as the winner has not started their next match. For referees at the tables: a brief network drop no longer wipes the scoring screen and buttons (the match could "disappear" for up to a minute and a half), the score no longer rolls back while points wait in the offline queue — which used to tempt a second tap and record the frame twice — and on very poor Wi-Fi the tablet stops waiting after eight seconds and queues the point instead of freezing the buttons. An undone match will also not claim a table if either player is already playing at another one. The TV screen no longer gets stuck in a retry loop when the first live-updates connection fails. Private tournaments now require the invite code to join, and tournament e-mail reminders no longer stop at the first malformed address in the field.

A large batch of tournament fixes after a full pre-event audit for the Polish amateur 8-ball tournament. For referees on tablets: the "Undo" button now also works after accidentally confirming the final frame (previously the match closed and the tablet refused — you had to run to the organiser), a double tap on "Undo" no longer removes two frames, and when the network drops the tablet says "connection error" instead of pretending there is no match. For organisers: an accidental second click on "Start tournament" no longer wipes played results, a group-stage walkover immediately frees the table and — if it was the last match — draws the knockout, a co-organiser can start matches from the panel, and every rejected action (undo, reset, table change…) now shows the reason instead of silently doing nothing. The venue TV screen finally announces "match ready — table X" with a chime (this feature never worked), warns when it loses connection, and shows the double-elimination podium correctly. On top of that, scores entered in the same second on multiple tables no longer get lost during a momentary database stall, private tournaments are hidden from anonymous visitors, and player e-mail addresses are visible to the organiser only.

Group tournaments: no more tables blocked by a player who is playing elsewhere. In the group stage every match is scheduled from the start, and the table allocator took them in order — it could seat one player at two or even three tables at once. The symptom: a table standing with a "ready" match whose player was at another table, and the referee shuffling matches by hand. A table is now only given a match where both players are free. Plus two things for organisers: a "Walkover" button on a match (until now a no-show could only be flagged before the tournament started — if someone left mid-event there was no way forward), and a tablet that says "wrong PIN" outright instead of "no active match at this table". Reducing the table count mid-event (a table breaks, or the venue takes one back) no longer loses the matches scheduled on it — they return to the queue and get a free table.

Tournament pages are better described in Google. Until now the description Google showed under the link was a literal copy of the tournament name — clicking a search result told you nothing about whether the event had finished, where it is played or when it starts. The description is now built from discipline, city, dates and current state („Live now", „In 10 days", „Won by …" or the number of players entered), and the title carries the year — because you search for „florida open 2026", not „florida open". Separately: our video sitemap had always been empty due to a code mistake — the daily YouTube round-ups keep their video ids in a different field than the one we were reading. Google now sees 91 videos instead of zero.

Player profiles show their matches again. On 64 of 199 profiles — precisely the ones mirrored from Cuescore and EPBF, i.e. those with the richest game history — the „Matches" and „Upcoming tournaments" sections were empty and claimed the player had played nothing. The page reported no error, so it looked truthful. The cause was a database query our database driver refused to run; we rewrote it into a form it understands. Match history and upcoming starts are back.

Fixed listing items with photos taken on a phone. Modern phones produce photos of a dozen-plus megabytes each — with a few of those, publishing an offer ended with a cryptic „413 Request Entity Too Large" message instead of a live listing. Photos are now automatically resized in the browser before upload (no visible quality loss — we serve them at a smaller resolution anyway), so publishing works even with a full camera gallery. The same applies to editing an offer and to message attachments. If something still exceeds the limit, you get a readable message instead of a raw server error page.

Fixed a serious bug: pagination in News did not work — clicking „Next" kept returning the same page, and the discipline/country filters on the players list did not filter. One shared root cause across the whole site (the server cached responses ignoring the selected filters). Bonus: Google could only see 20 of 56 articles — now it sees all of them.

Offer URLs now include the item name — /offer/1234-predator-cue instead of /offer/1234. Easier to read when you send a link to a friend, and better for Google. All old links keep working (they redirect automatically), so nothing bookmarked or previously shared breaks.

Registration is simpler and finally visible. Facebook login moved ABOVE the form (and no longer requires ticking consents first), the terms and privacy consents merged into one, the separate nickname field is gone (we derive it from your name, still editable), and the „Sign up" button is no longer disabled without explanation. There is now also a sign-up button on mobile — previously there was none at all.

New email notification settings page (/profile/settings/notifications) — you can separately turn off mail about auctions, messages, tournaments and new offers. Plus a working „unsubscribe" link in email footers (it previously led nowhere) and a reminder for people who signed up but never clicked the activation link.

Category and offer pages showed the wrong title in Google — instead of „Slate-bed billiard tables…" you got the generic site name, identical on every subpage. Fixed: every category, offer, brand and seller profile now has its own title in search results and in the browser tab. Should translate into more Google traffic on specific phrases (slate-bed tables, Predator/Mezz cues).

News: sort by TOURNAMENT date (upcoming first, finished below), covers appear immediately (FB/Twitter share preview now works), faster card loading (first 4 eager, rest lazy), hover-preload on filters/related/prev-next → snappier navigation. Google and other search engines now get richer structured data (image per listing item, article:section/tag) — should index better.

News: you now see WHEN at a glance — every card and article header shows the tournament date range and city. Plus a coloured chip: „Billiard" / „Snooker". Previously you had to click through just to find out whether the tournament is next week or in six months.

Batch of SEO and speed fixes: (1) bidbil.pl and bidbil.com were sending Google a misleading „canonical" saying the Polish site was a duplicate of the English one — each domain now correctly declares itself as the content source; (2) sitemap-news and sitemap-videos no longer trigger a parser error when temporarily empty; (3) bidbil.com/o-nas now auto-redirects to /about (and bidbil.pl/about to /o-nas); (4) tables/cues/balls/accessories categories now use titles matched to what people actually search for („slate-bed billiard tables", „Predator/Mezz cues"); (5) removed an unused font weight — less to download on mobile.

New pages for popular brands: Predator, Mezz, Brunswick, Diamond, Aramith and Cuetec. Each has a short brand write-up, model list, FAQ (e.g. „Predator vs Mezz", „how much is a Brunswick table") and every active offer of that brand on BidBil. On an offer page a Predator cue now shows a „More Predator" button — one click, all the others. Plus an English „About" page (until now English speakers landed on the Polish one).

Category links look human at last: instead of bidbil.com/category/1 you get bidbil.com/category/1-pool-cues (or /category/6-tables-and-equipment). On top of that, the four biggest categories — Cues, Tables, Balls, Accessories — now show an FAQ on the page: „how much does a slate-bed table cost", „which cue for a beginner", „which Aramith set". Google now sees every subcategory in the sitemap, not just the roots.

Should be easier to find us on Google — especially for searches like „slate-bed billiard table" or „8-ft slate table". Better page titles and descriptions, mainly on bidbil.com — that was the weakest spot.

Tournament calendar: finished events now hidden by default (10-day grace period when end_date is missing). New "Show finished" filter unveils the last 60 days with podium + "Finished" chip. Homepage no longer shows past tournaments without a winner.

News section is back — powered by our own generators. Instead of scraping other outlets, we produce five article types tied to tournaments: 3-day preview, start-day preview, roster (best-first), nationality breakdown, and the 1-2-3-4 podium after the final. Plus daily YouTube top 4 (snooker and pool separately).

News section temporarily disabled. Auto-curated news quality was low (many low scores, duplicates), pausing until the pipeline is improved. /aktualnosci shows a short notice with a link to the tournament calendar. The calendar itself is unaffected.

Critical fix for whisky (nonstop, "winner stays") mode: with only 2 players, after the first match the system paired the winner against themselves for the next match. The holder (table winner) is now always removed from the waiting queue before picking an opponent.

Billiard/snooker split across the portal. News, calendar list, month view, and homepage now display a BILARD (blue) or SNOOKER (red) chip. The Wszystko/Bilard/Snooker filter is available on /aktualnosci, /kalendarz, and /kalendarz/[month].

New look for news covers. The image generator mangles hands and cues, so covers now show scenes (table, balls, trophy, empty arena) instead of portraits. Existing articles got refreshed images.

Replies in article comments — thread the discussion, don't just stack posts.

"Add to calendar" button on every event page — one click drops the tournament into Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar. Downloads a .ics file with just that one event (date, location, link back to the BidBil page).

Player names in articles are now automatically turned into links to their profiles. Click "Fedor Gorst" in the text and land on /player/fedor-gorst with rankings, matches, and related articles. Existing manual links are left alone.

New "Players" section — /players page with world 9-ball, snooker, European and national rankings. Every player profile (/player/{name}) shows rankings, recent matches from BidBil-mirrored tournaments, articles mentioning them, and upcoming tournaments from the calendar.

GDPR Art. 20 & 17: new pages /konto/dane (download your data as JSON) and /konto/usun (delete account with password + "DELETE MY ACCOUNT" confirmation). DMCA form at /kontakt/dmca for copyright infringement reports — reviewed within 48h.

GDPR: registration now confirms you are at least 16 years old (Polish law requirement for personal-data processing). News articles show a badge when the text is an AI rewrite — with a link to the original source.

Comments under news articles — logged-in users can discuss under pzbil.pl / azbilliards / snooker.org / our recap articles. Rate limit 5/min, up to 1000 chars, edit-your-own supported, admin moderators can hide or hard-delete.

Tournament calendar now has a month view — 7-column day grid with tier-colored event chips (World Tour = gold, Euro Tour = green, etc.), inline day expand. "Month view" button next to the upcoming list. Sitemap for Google split into index + 7 specialized submaps (Google News for articles < 48h, Google Video for YT highlights) — priority SEO indexing.

New "News" and "Tournament calendar" sections on the home page + dedicated /aktualnosci and /kalendarz pages. Billiard/snooker news aggregated from external sources (pzbil.pl, azbilliards.com, snooker.org) + auto-generated tournament previews/recaps from our mirrors (EPBF, CueScore) + curated YouTube video highlights. Calendar unifies all sources in one view. Player rankings: snooker.org (world snooker), PZBil (top 20 national), WPA (world 9-ball), Matchroom Nineball Tour. Bilingual: bidbil.pl (PL) and bidbil.com (EN), full hreflang + schema.org. Feature-flagged in admin panel — pipeline off until API keys (DeepSeek/Claude, Together, YouTube Data) are configured.

In the "Following" tab, player cards now show all matches (besides the one in progress) — upcoming with timestamps, finished with W/L and score, sorted chronologically. Plus: roster list at the bottom of mirror tournaments (EPBF/CueScore) is now sorted alphabetically instead of import order — find a player faster.

Empty "Following" tab now shows 3 numbered steps (go to Matches/Bracket/Standings → tap the star → come back) plus a mini preview card with "NOW PLAYING" and score, so it's clear what you'll get after adding friends.

Followed-players list now syncs to your account — logged-in users see the same favorites on phone, tablet and laptop. Anonymous users keep their list in the browser. Plus: "NOW PLAYING" badge on player cards is green (sport-y, "action in progress") instead of red.

Stars also next to players in every match card (Matches tab) — add someone to Following with one tap right when you see a friend in the result, no need to dig into Standings or roster.

Matches / Bracket / Standings tabs now have a "Followed only" toggle — shows only matches, groups and rows with players you starred. Great when you're watching friends in a big tournament (e.g. 162 players, 532 matches) and don't want to scroll the rest. Side cleanup: PTS column removed from group tables (the standings order already comes from W-L and FW-FL).

Follow players in a tournament. Tap the star next to any player (in standings, bracket, roster) — they appear in a new "Following" tab with live score, next match, recent results and W-L stats. No login required, list saved in browser per tournament. Perfect when you're watching a few friends in a big tournament and don't want to scroll through 600 matches.

Second tournament scraper: CueScore. Admin can import any tournament from cuescore.com (by ID or URL) as a read-only mirror — groups + single-elim playoff, results and bracket auto-refreshed every 15-60s.

In the "Groups + Playoff" format, at most 32 players now advance to the knockout phase — regardless of total tournament size. Previously the system could push e.g. 48 players from a large tournament into the bracket, ballooning it to 6 rounds and making it impossible to finish in one evening.

Homepage now has a blue LIVE banner — shows active EPBF mirrors in progress (pulsing red dot + tournament name) linking straight to the game. Plus bracket: perf tuning (content-visibility on off-screen rounds + hover-transitions disabled while dragging), filter properly closes on outside click, past match dates hidden, bracket section titles / mirror banner translated.

Flags next to players in EPBF mirrors now show a tooltip with the country name (Poland, Northern Cyprus, EPBF (neutral), etc.). The backend recognizes every code EPBF uses, including the unusual ones: TCY (Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus), UMI (US Minor Outlying Islands), EPBF (player competing under the federation).

Country flags next to players — every player can have a country assigned (flag next to the name in the player list). EPBF mirror reads flags from the import, in regular games: registered player inherits country from their profile, manual one from the tournament creator. Plus: scheduled match start time (ScheduledAt) for scheduled tournaments like EPBF.

EPBF mirror sync: when livescores.php returns nothing (night, end of tournament), tick slows to 30s if the next scheduled match is <5 min away, or 5 min otherwise. Back to 5s as soon as anything live appears. When a match disappears from live (finalized by the referee) we immediately trigger an off-schedule full HTML refresh — final score and the next match in the bracket show up in ~15s.

EPBF mirror — auto-import tournaments from epbf.com as read-only games in BidBil (public, admin-only to create). After import: in-progress scores update every 5s from livescores.php, and every 5 min a full HTML refresh pulls new matches and finalizes completed ones. Bracket is a 1:1 mirror of EPBF (Men 9-ball, 2KO+Cup). The game page shows a "Mirror from EPBF — read-only" banner with the last sync time.

Bulk import of players in the create-game form — new "Import list" button next to "Save roster". Paste any roster (e.g. EPBF order-of-play), the parser strips country codes in parens, seed numbers and scores, and skips duplicates. A live counter shows how many will be added before you confirm.

After creating a tournament the "Start game" button gently pulses with a golden glow until you generate the bracket — your eyes land on the right spot instead of hunting around the page.

You can now mark a player as "no-show" (WO) while creating a new game — previously this only worked after the game was already created. Also: for 1v1 the blocking message now reads "requires exactly 2 players" instead of the misleading "need at least 2" when you have 3.

Fixed time stamps on messages, listings and activity — previously the displayed time was 1–2 hours off from the actual one (e.g. you sent at 03:56 but the chat showed 05:56). The backend was treating dates read back from the database as UTC instead of Warsaw local time.

Fixed claiming a tournament player slot via QR or code — after logging in or signing up you return to the claim page, and the admin immediately sees the player has taken their slot. Previously you landed on the home page and lost the context.

Mark a player as "no-show" (WO) before tournament start — button next to seed in the "Matches" tab. All their matches resolve as walkovers (opponent wins on max), and they land at the bottom of standings. Useful when someone paid the entry fee but cannot make it — they stay on the list with a "WO" tag instead of being removed.

Bottom menu now stays glued exactly to the screen edge on iPhone — simplified to a fixed 75px height with no extra room for the Home indicator zone. No more "detaching".

Bottom menu (Home / Games / Sell / Cart / Profile) now stays glued to the bottom of the screen on iPhone — previously it could slip into the middle of the page above the footer. Now it behaves the same as on Android.

Fixed session persistence on iPhone and iPad — especially in Safari Private Browsing where entering profile/cart right after login would immediately ask you to sign in again. Sessions now hold steady on every device.

The referee tablet sign-in page, the redirect prompt when entering profile without an account, the delete buttons for games and integrations, and the error messages after a failed Facebook login now translate to English. An audit confirmed professional coverage across 1,331 keys — the remaining gaps are now closed.

The login modal, browser tab titles, the maintenance screen, the tournament account-link page and the tournament bracket are now translated to English. Previously a dozen spots stayed in Polish regardless of the selected language.

Login prompts ("to buy / bid / add to cart / message the seller you need to sign in") now appear in the selected language (used to always be Polish). SEO descriptions on seller, category, tournaments and snooker counter pages are also translated correctly.

When the language is switched to English, the category list and the mobile category sheet now show the English names (previously they stayed in Polish).

Referee tablet: distinct error messages (bad PIN / no internet / server offline / no match). The „play!" beep silences when the network drops — no false alarms.

PC and tablet snooker counters now sync in real-time via SignalR. Pot a ball on the PC and points appear instantly on the tablet and vice versa. „Frame OK" commits the result to the tournament match automatically.

Full snooker counter (6-red and 15-red) built into the referee tablet. 7 coloured ball buttons, fouls 4-7, miss 4-7, free ball after snooker, switch player, undo, reset frame. Enforces the rules: red is disabled when none remain; in the final sequence only the next colour is enabled. Automatically tracks each player's highest break.

Tournament highest break recorded per frame (snooker, 14.1). Shown as a gold badge next to game status („BREAK 87 · Jan Kowalski") and in a new „Break" column in standings. „Z kija" (break & run) remains only for 8/9/10-ball.

New „Play now" button on ready-match cards — referee can push a match onto the first free table without waiting for the auto-scheduler. When all tables are busy, a picker lets you displace any scheduled match (matches in progress can't be interrupted).

Saved player rosters — in the new-game form, „Save roster" (after adding 2+ players) and „Load roster" (from your saved list). Limit 20 rosters per account. Weekly tournaments no longer require typing players from scratch.

Smart match ordering in group stage and Round Robin — the system interleaves matches so the same player does not run two (let alone three) in a row. In group tournaments, matches from different groups alternate.

Opening a game now defaults to Bracket (cup formats) or Standings (Round Robin) instead of the match list. Exception: freshly created games stay on „Matches".

New „What's new" page in the footer — a chronological changelog so you don't have to follow commits.

New announcements now default to a 30-day validity (previously 7).

When creating a new listing, the order is now: Announcement (default), Sale, Auction — the simplest flow first.

Phone number visibility is now ENABLED by default on new listings (the number is still protected against bots by a proof-of-work challenge).

On mobile, the offer map now sits BELOW the price card (not above) — buyers reach contact and purchase faster.

New floating help button in the bottom-right corner (WhatsApp-style) — opens the support chat without going through profile. Guests get a sign-in prompt.

The trophy "Games" icon on the mobile bottom bar now opens a menu with 3 options: Games, Join a game, Snooker Counter. Players were not finding the counter.

Terms of Service expanded with §6 — prohibition of scraping, phone harvesting and unauthorized API access. Sanctions: ban + damages + law enforcement (Polish Criminal Code Art. 267–269).

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy are now available in English — bidbil.com shows EN, bidbil.pl shows PL.

Clicking the activation link now activates your account and signs you in immediately (30-day session) — no detour through the login screen.

Trying to sign in to an unactivated account now shows a clear „Account awaiting activation" message with a „Resend link" button — instead of the generic „Invalid login or password".

Marketing pages (home, /about, /games) are now also available in English. Login/registration via Facebook OAuth is now visible in all browsers (experiment).