Moving online games to the center was a huge improvement.  Thank you.

I have a strong desire to see live chess and notes change places.  That would put both types of games front and center, and put notes off to the side.

I'd like to suggest offering a mechanism for swapping Online and Live, to control which one is at top center.  This would be appropriate even without making the layout change I requested, because I'm fairly certain there must be users who prefer live chess, and make that a higher priority.  Whether they're stacked or side by side, the most important one to that user is the one they would likely prefer to be at top center.

blasphemy.

The biggest thing that is noticeable with the new changes is a decrease of support for a player's focus.

What I mean is that a lot is now "at one's fingertips", a-la Facebook (the site mirrors Facebook in a lot of respects, which I presume is intentional from perspetives like usability, business development, etc.).

The issue here is that while Facebook and other social networking sites are about... well, social networking, gossiping, etc. -- chess is fundamentally about none of those.  Chess is a game of focus, of a noble competition between intellects, of the ability to imagine (and perhaps share) ideas, etc.  That suggests a need for cleaner experience, to support this focus; what I see now instead is a more cluttered experience, especially on the Home Page.  Luckily, I can escape the Home Page fast, which is what I now typically do...

The game pages have retained their clean and focused look-and-feel, and this is great! 

After the general feedback above, here's some specific feedback on things that seem odd and can be easily fixed:

- In the Game Exporer, the fields for "FEN" and "Link to Page" seem unnecessarily narrow, and obstruct the ability to actually see what's there. If the intent is to add in more graphical elements and hence the rest of the space is reserved, though not yet visible to us, then that may be fine.

- Again in the Game Explorer, the sequence of moves used to be above the present move options, which made it easy and natural to go back between one and the other.  Now, with the sequence of moves below the chess board, one  has to constantly move back and forth (both eyes and mouse) left down then right up, in order to coordinate an exploration of options -- which is the core point of Game *Explorer* (also indicated in its name).  So, from a usability perspective, that change seems counterintuitive and one that would benefit from reversing.

Hello Erik

Only things I'd like is the font a little larger and blacker instead of grayish on the text.

On the box where we enter the comments the text looks large but it comes out smaller.

Light green, light grey, light blue colors for the text is not so good on the bluish background that you have on the pages.

As for Bat Girl: Tables weren't really supposed to be used like many people ended up using them to design web pages.

With the new coding they are history in the future. There are better methods usin CSS.

hitting enter in chat box in online chess submits text but takes me out of chat box and I have to click the box again to continue typing 

The ABORT button in the first few moves of the game (specifically Vote Chess) should be BRIGHT RED (preferably different shape and location away from submit button) - not the same color (and shape and proximity) as the SUBMIT button. [with FireFox browser, Windows XP]

wow! When I tested the Beta version I was miffed, but a lot of the fixes have made the new site user friendly.  One thing that I agree with others who have posted:  I like being able to see my opponents stats, also, when I'm playing games I don't like having to go back to the game list to get to the next game -- please put the "next game" button back on the active game

Cool feature -- being able to toggle between seeing current games in board or list form. 

I really don't like the look of these buttons.  The red is too muted, and the orange is just horrible.  These colors scream of old 1970s kitchen appliances.  Gack.

Something more like this makes my eyes much, much happier:

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I have to click TWICE in any comment  box to start entering text - clicking once (just makes the "message" Please be relevant, helpful and nice! disappear) does not allow me to start entering. [with FireFox browser, Windows XP]

seem to be working just fine, only one click. 

When I copy and paste the game explorer stats in vote chess comments, everything looks like crap.

Web surfers spend most of their time looking at content above the fold.  People don't like to scroll (especially to look for something that was right there under the old design) and there were many comments to this effect in the Vote thread.  Making sure that the most important content is visible when a web page is first opened is probably one of the key priorities for most web designers.

My screen resolution is 1024x768, which I guess is quite common, and there is a good inch of white space above the title of a vote chess game.  The title of the game is in quite a large font which I guess compounds the problem pushing the game board off the bottom edge of the screen.  I've tried zooming out with my browser, but there comes a point when the Team Comments text becomes too small to read.  I can get the whole board visible by changing my Account - Online Chess Settings - Board Size to Tiny, but it looks silly to have this small thumbnail of a board underneath a vast sea of empty white space.

If that huge band of white space is necessary for some reason, perhaps you could include a link to a name anchor that would centre the board vertically in the browser window, so people wouldn't have to fiddle with the mouse or arrow keys back and forth trying to get the board visible on the screen.

I cannot post comments in color in Vote chess, but can do so elsewhere. When I type shows the correct colors, but the final posting appears in black. [with FireFox browser, Windows XP]

well every issue I had been fix thanks chess.com for listening

Erik. Don't you think the poster should tell you which BROWSER they are using?

It would help your webmaster.

magnifying glass symbol on search boxes would be nice. maybe I'm retarded but it took me a while to figure out what they were

The font size of quoted posts is too... 

small for my liking.

Yeah, I can zoom in with my browser, but you are designing the website specifically for me, so I thought I'd let you know.

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