
CHess Dot Com Destroys the perfect design of the OLD game review Oct18 waited til Nov 22 to revert!
[Edit: Last updated november 23, 2024!]
They brought it back SILENTLY with
the update of november 21-22 !!
They didn't even shout it on the rooftops... sad thing !!! They are like dogs cowering with the tail between their legs! Claim it loud: we made a mistake you deserve respectable compensation! We must be compensated for loss of time and weeks of play = 2 years in a row you do something this horrendous! Last year there were constantly bugs in the players league where we didn't get our points from Live competitive game for the weekly cups! 2 years in a row you made us loose a month to a month and a half of chess WE PAID FOR! I paid for these weeks where it was unusable for reviews ... you think i now will go back to take the screenshots of all the reviews i would have ? That is another thing to be compensated. BUT at least you did the only right thing : you reverted the fiasco!!! Horrible decision aborted!!! Perfect! Finally!
the criticism of the bad ''new design'' must stay online to never let anyone forget this affront we had to endure !!! You snuffed the flame of passion i had for all this time: october 18 to november 22nd! Never do this shameful design destruction ever again, remember this failure!
OLD BLOG POST describing the terrible decision ChessDotCom made with a pathetic game review design. Read this. NEVER FORGET!!!!
[Pre-Scriptum: I will add more evidence until the old review system is back]
To discuss this with the chess.com team when they answer me, see the FORUM thread about this:
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-can-you-remove-the-one-thing-we-need-in-game-reviews-allow-us-disable-this-horizontal-list
OOPS... they censored me and deleted it. Too bad it's illegal for them to delete this current perfectly untouchable blog.
They cannot remove this article. So read on!
How do you list chess moves? Vertically.
How have people listed chess moves to be readable since hundreds of years ? Vertically.
THEN we add comments in paragraphs, horizontally. We don'T review a game horizontally on a 1 centimer or half Cm space at the bottom of an iphone. You just made the iphone review pannel for games worthless.. A tale of my total horror at the events.
Nowadays the look of the thumbnail picture is literally shrunk to this puny little bar, we do not have a book quality / study quality listing of result on mobile for a game review. This is unacceptable! Let's go back to the moment of shock!
Friday night, I log into chess dot com, play a game and see an horrific vision of useless spoace and lsot data... the Game review redesign : it changed now... it was not like this yesterday... How can i revert his? They must cancel this it's total worthless non-presentation of information, you remove everyhthing from our hands... there is not even a line demarking the end of the opening with its name ... this is the one time they messed up the modernization... everything else before almost i was ok with. This is a big no, they MUST allow us to cancel this update for the game review. THIS is what we need :
See that "opening variation" name line? Now we don't have that... it's is compacted and unscreenshotable like this anymore.... how can we keep clean perfectly formated reviews if chessdotcom thinks the PERFECTION they had on their hands was unworthy of being kept around for Diamond paying users?
OCTOBER 2024 updates creates this loss of space :
90% lost space !
look at this !
EVERYTHING else is useless... you REMOVED the space we needed ... i'd have told you make the BOARD smaller for game review to see MORE moves in the list with the opening nmame andvariants
Chess dot com design team :
You did the exact opposite, REMOVING the agency of the player in his review. It's not the coach i wanna see it's the move list ... what are you thinking? Revert this ASAP. this is quite unacceptable : all other options you let us disable it. How could you think this was good? Let me in the BETA tests so i don't let you make any horrendous things to the interface
"What Were they thinking?" -AVGNBUT wait! There's more!
They seriously must revert this. The coach steals 30%more space from the list of moves... and they removed all vertical space for moves.. restricting it to 10% of the screen. WHO asks for that view of a game? Make the BOARD smaller and hide the coach.
AND they removed the "change your moves and see what accuracy you get at the end." Now you cannot go see and get the best moves for all your options by yourself without hints of "best move" auto button, and at the end you get a "new accuracy"... Now that is gone on iphone. Think of people with iOs 15 and older ChessdotCom otherwise i unsuscribe for removal of "ease of use". And "quality of life" lost with your app. How could a company do this? Don't mess with the perfect reviews you had BEFORE october 2024.
Solve this by NEXT sunday (EDIT : it will have been a full week already!)... make the supporters happy, as a paying diamond member you make us lose quality of life by messing with the old perfect game review design! Look at this ridiculous view : who thinks this is better than before ? NOBODY!!!!
I am disabling my auto-renewal if you don'T do something. My (428 day) 435 day playing streak might not matter to chess.com