So I’ve been playing on Titan Poker lately and so far I’ve been extremely happy with the results. I do however have some problems with their poker app.

“Dear Titan Poker-

I can live with the idea that your developers don’t know anything about user interface design. I mean, people spend years upon years in college learning how to do that. I don’t even care that your app isn’t pretty. Graphic artists are hard to come by unless you live in any major city where you will find an ample supply of them preparing to slit their wrists as they work for large engineering companies that have little need for anything more than having someone change the background color on a picture of their products.

I can live with the fact that you didn’t bother to do any multithreaded testing. Multithreaded testing is hard because it opens up the flood gates on a bunch of different scenarios that you don’t want to have to worry about. Just release the first version and wait for users to complain about the obvious failings in the alert capabilities when you have two windows open. Or the fact that 70% of the time the second table will simply never blink, come forward, or make a sound when it’s your turn. You shouldn’t worry yourself with this stuff. What are the chances that someone would play two tables at the same time?

But what I can’t live with the fact that Titan eats away the battery on my computer when I have it open for more than half an hour. It’s called sleep() motherfuckers, look into it. Or better yet, look into event programming. And remove every line of code that looks like this:

int i = 0;
while(i<1000000000)
{
   i++;
}

it’s eating my battery alive and it’s apparently sprinkled throughout your source code. And I don’t even want to think about what kind of memory leaks you likely have.

After you’ve taken care of that nonsense, fix the betting options on the no-limit games. When I click the slider it should go from min-raise to 2xBB, 3x, 4x, etc. it blows that I have to go to type into the text box every time I want to raise to 3x BB. And on top of that, when I’m in the small blind, the options when I click on the slider should still be 2xBB, 3x, etc. It makes no fucking sense to have it be 2xBB + SB. Oh yeah, and if your going to be eating 100% of my CPU, you should at least have the decency to update the bet amount on the bet button.

That’s all for now.
Hugs & kisses,
gus @ the metroplaza”