

There was formerly a black-boxed () section, but it was widely regarded in the site's forums as useless, and has since been shut down.\n", However, the website does almost nothing to use its data on a user's preferences to make personalized recommendations.

General statistics are readily presented on the site, such as an overall ranking of the () or () of user-logged play-counts and ratings. It functions as a user- and administrator-curated database of boardgame data, as a social network for gamers, and as a journal tracking game ratings and comments by users. " Boardgame Geek (BGG) is a huge site with 500 million pageviews and 45 million returning visitors in 2012 (()). "The website associated with this project can be found ().
