I gotta tell ya, I feel like a total idiot asking this, but I love the change you guys made to the "online status" icons, so I want to understand them.  Let's see if I have the definitions right:

New Red "Live" online icon: online playing LIVE chess only.

New Green "Live" online icon: online on chess.com AND playing live chess.  If I am right on this one so far, then what is the difference between the red and the green one?  Because, even for the red icon, even though you are playing live chess, you still have to be logged onto chess.com, so wouldn't that make the new red and the new green live icon the same?  Not sure how those differ.... 

Original green online icon: on the chess.com website, but not on live chess.

Any help that anyone can offer would be appreciated...as long as you are not laughing at me while doing it. 

Haha I don't know if I can help you out, KnightNotHorse, but I did find myself hilarously mildly offended.

Here some of my friends were "LIVE!".

 I was like, what does that make me? An existential crisis ensued... am I not truly living unless I'm playing live chess? Am I a mere shade in hades for playing coorespondence?

And still the chill light beamed at me, it's menacing beacon.

Live!! It said. Live!!... LIVE!!!

I looked upon that red blinking beacon and I knew it's hateful implication.

I'm not fully living, no. Not until I face the full intensity of blitz, yes, then I will be living.

For now, I stare from the sidelines and imagine the fun my living friends are having. 

Rael wrote:

Haha I don't know if I can help you out, KnightNotHorse, but I did find myself hilarously mildly offended.

Here some of my friends were "LIVE!".

 I was like, what does that make me? An existential crisis ensued... am I not truly living unless I'm playing live chess? Am I a mere shade in hades for playing coorespondence?

And still the chill light beamed at me, it's menacing beacon.

Live!! It said. Live!!... LIVE!!!

I looked upon that red blinking beacon and I knew it's hateful implication.

I'm not fully living, no. Not until I face the full intensity of blitz, yes, then I will be living.

For now, I stare from the sidelines and imagine the fun my living friends are having. 

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...great post!

lol. very funny!

KnightNotHorse: you are correct about the icons.

the thing is, if they log in to LIVE then they will be green for ~5-10 minutes at first. but then if they don't visit any Chess.com pages, it will turn to red if the continue in LIVE only.  

The first person I noticed with the live icon was Ray Brooks, I messaged him to see what it meant and asked why he wasn't *undead* as opposed to *live* since he has an avatar of Dracula...

KnightNotHorse wrote:

I gotta tell ya, I feel like a total idiot asking this, but I love the change you guys made to the "online status" icons, so I want to understand them.  Let's see if I have the definitions right:

New Red "Live" online icon: online playing LIVE chess only.

New Green "Live" online icon: online on chess.com AND playing live chess.  If I am right on this one so far, then what is the difference between the red and the green one?  Because, even for the red icon, even though you are playing live chess, you still have to be logged onto chess.com, so wouldn't that make the new red and the new green live icon the same?  Not sure how those differ.... 

Original green online icon: on the chess.com website, but not on live chess.

Any help that anyone can offer would be appreciated...as long as you are not laughing at me while doing it. 

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Merci mille fois and thank ya kindly for posting this explanation.  It was driving me notes. 

We need more avatar subscripts, like, SWM or MWC so even if we don't live we can be KEWL

Well, what if I come to chess.com, highlight PLAY on the top, click on LIVE, ONLY FUNCTION on LIVE for a while, will my thing turn RED?

Yep.  Your thing will turn red.

Not your icon, but your THING.