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whilst looking at this page - https://www.chess.com/article/view/titled-tuesday-what-you-need-to-know i clicked on this link which took me to a player's profile... https://www.chess.com/member/submit_title_proof

This is an ongoing game, so careful not to talk about the play... I've reached this position in my game and naturally am using the analysis feature in the panel on the right hand side. It's a sharp position, so i want to look at several lines... Unfortunately, there is very little space to list the moves of any variations i want to check out before playing my move. There is space only for 4 lines of moves, only 3 if i want to keep the moves already played in view. Space for just 8 moves... Sure, i can resize the panel on the right hand side by resizing the board, but the board is already at a size that is comfortable to me...

I went into v3 today, and up at the top by the bell, it said I have 20 alerts to attend to. I thought this was strange as in v2, I only had one or two. I clicked on the first alert, read through, but the bell still said 20 alerts. I read through a few more with the bell still saying 20, and then suddenly, the number 20 disappeared. I had not read 20 pages yet, so I was quite surprised. When I came back to v2, there was only 1 or 2 alerts similar to when I left. Is the number of unread Alerts displayed by the bell in v3 completely capricious?

v3 has a feature where you can see who voted for which move after you have voted in vote chess game. Unfortunately, there is a bug in the coding such that if you vote for 9...bxc6 capturing with a pawn, you are also listed among those voting for 9...Bxc6 capturing with a bishop.

...just as Titled Tuesday was getting under way. Players included Magnus, Hikaru, MVL... how embarrassing. But this, in the chat box of live chess, is this a joke? "NEW: Adjust and improve your connection on the new Connection Settings tab"

Reading the forums just now from my phone, I see this...

From my home page, i scroll down to view my tracked activity... When i scroll down to the bottom, click on more, scroll down to the bottom, click on more, scroll down to the bottom, click on more, scroll down to the bottom, click on more, i get to the bottom where i can go no further. Of course, anyone will tell you that each scroll is likely to freeze on its way... But, at the bottom post, which in my case right now is just 6 weeks old, how can i view older content?

When you are working on a diagram for example in vote chess, you may have a main line, and a couple of branch lines. As you puzzle over which line is best, you may promote one of the branch lines to the main line. In v2, when you did this, the work you put into the third branch line would get wiped out, and any later branches in your former main line would get pruned as well. v3 seems better in that third branch lines don't get deleted, but the strange thing is that if I try to promote a move further along in one of my branches to be the main move in that branch, instead it promotes the whole branch line to become the main line. I then have to sift through all the lines again, and try to rectify the damage. In v3, wouldn't it be possible to program move promotion so that the place of the promoted line remains where it was originally rather than getting shifted to become a new main line?

i'm trying to find a live tournament that was played a few weeks ago... when i look through the list of completed tournaments, i have to scroll to the bottom only to find that i can advance by just a single page at a time... Seriously?

Way back when v3 was a new thing, ISTR someone saying that the 100 page limit in v3 wouldn't exist. Whilst looking at a player's archive, i see the page numbers count up past 100, but their content is merely a repetition of previous pages, rather than showing what is beyond those 100 pages. I dunno if the 100 page limit was supposed to be lifted, being so long ago i cannot remember who it was that made the claim, but just in case it was supposed to be lifted, i'll mention here. Here are the screen shots, yoy can see the page numbers advancing each time, but their content remains the same...

I know that V3 is too slow for some people. It's a mix of hardware, browser, etc. But that doesn't matter. It's MY fault it's too slow. And we will not shut down V2 until this is fixed! We are currently working on slimming down the JavaScript and using a new library (Vue instead of Angular). So if V3 is slower than V2 for you, then I don't blame you for being mad! I have a really old laptop that I use for testing, and when I have to use V3 on it, it's just too frustrating. So, I hear you on this and I'm sorry! It's our TOP priority. 

I am using the Chrome browser extension for v3, is anyone else using one? (for any browser)

I still use V2 on my computer when I can but since I couldn't switch to v2 on my iPhone, I'm stuck on V3 (and writing that from my phone). Then this started happening when looking at articles, puzzles or even my own correspondence games. It has happened occasionally on my computer V3, but not regularly.

This has been bugging me for a long time, and I am pretty sure I sent a Usersnap or two on this topic, but now I got triggered to complain in public, after joining this very Chess.com V2 club and attempting to take a look at what has been already discussed in the notes. The "More v" control at the bottom of clubs' notes is nothing short of ridiculous - loading five extra notes at a time. Come on -- in active clubs it may take several clicks to get to the notes from the previous day. The Chess.com V2 club's notes count is a bit shy of 500 - so it would take about 100 clicks to see the beginning. It was much easier in V2, even though a "last page" link to load the oldest available page (which is a common and expected feature on just about any GUI that does pagination) was sorely missing in V2. This is how I got to the first notes posted in this club: * click https://www.chess.com/groups/notes/chess-com-v2 * click the number eleven to be taken to https://www.chess.com/groups/notes/chess-com-v2?page=11 * replace the 11 in the URL with 40 (just a wild guess), and go to https://www.chess.com/groups/notes/chess-com-v2?page=40 * since on page 40 the notes are 5 months old, I know I am close to the beginning. Click on 44 * Bingo! I see that page 49 is the last one. Click that one, and I am where I wanted. Took me less time to write this up while doing it (5 clicks and 3 keystrokes), than it would take me to do the equivalent in V3. The same annoying "More v" control was used in earlier V3 versions to navigate game archives. This one got replaced with pagination (which also has the "Last" button to go to the page with the oldest archived games in one click). On the other hand, in the game archives, that control loaded extra 50 games and was useful in other respect: it facilitated downloading all games on the page in one shot. So one could click more 3 times, scroll back to the top of the page, and download them all -- much nicer than having to download 3 separate pages and having to combine them manually later. How about this idea: have BOTH types of control available simultaneously? An also: * In the button that displays "Last", replace that text with the number of the last page * Add an entry to type in the desired page number to go there in one shot (rather than having to hack the URL, which many people might not even think about).

Hello Laki_69.This version of Chess.com (V2) will be shutting down on September 30th. 98% of our members are using the new site and we need to focus on one platform for the future. We hope the new Chess.com (V3) will continue to be your chess home. We appreciate your feedback and have worked hard to address many of the issues you have shared. Please consider taking this short survey to help us solve the remaining issues you may have with the new site. Sincerely, the Chess.com Team

Could only respond to a message today in v2. Great technology, v3...

Tactics Trainer in v2 is great. I pull up a screen and BEFORE I hit the start button I look to see if I am playing white or black and how much is the average time for that puzzle. And I get to watch the time run down as I look at the puzzle. I want ALL those things. Then as soon as the puzzle stops, I can read all the comments right there on that screen. I don't have to go and look for them. That is what I have in v2 and that is what I want. I play about 20-30 TT puzzles almost every day. I have reset my score (and therefore history) a few times, but all told I have probably played 50,000 puzzles in the past four years. I like TT because each puzzle only takes a minute, or a few minutes. I don't have time to play a game and in TT I never have to know that somebody beat me. I want to keep TT just like it is.

a screenshot from my home page... ...in the blank area marked in the screenshot above, notes sent to me by other users were shown. They're not there today, but were when i last logged in on Monday...

Are there any plans yet to change that awful font? How about the restoration of the full game in thematic pgns? I've spent much of the last week trying to save (rescue) a database which got corrupted with these thematic games which have the thematic moves missing...