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I can log in just fine to the regular site. But logging into the beta now warns me about this (Firefox). And yes, my clock is set right (for EST) Technical Details securesupport.chess.com uses an invalid security certificate.The certificate expired on 04/03/2012 7:23 PM. The current time is 04/03/2012 9:40 PM.(Error code: sec_error_expired_certificate)

The tickbox in the "Delete" column isn't there so I have to open messages now to delete them. Not a major problem, but if I am already playing 15 games I'm not going to play any more anyway, so no need for me to read any team games announcement messages.

1: the page is not wide enough. I cannot see the full boards, only part of them. At the top of the page, the different tabs ie: home, play, forums etc, are taking up two columns. Please make it wider. 2: I can't see the different users "points" 3: When I go to write a comment, I have to delete the "Please be Helpful Relevant, and Nice" " 4: As an improvement, If you could try to add the emoticons, fonts and font size, that would be sweet! You have a great start and I can't wait to see what is next. If you find that this is extra helpful, please give me the premium membership. If I find anything else, I will post it.

hello and i hope this has not been covered. i get home log in and my earliest game says 49 min. when i go to the game it's clock said 89 min. i think i have lost games on time when i shouldn't. i think if it is inaccurate in one direction it could be wrong vc. vs.. also would like to see the clock with atleast 15 min. increments over 2 hours. should help and can't hurt. the clock is hard to trust in last minute situations. peace TC

I have to say that I like it. A few comments though: Recent games have a section, but current games do not. If this were added, I think that the other chess specific profile pages could be eliminated Recent Content is crowded -- rows need to expand in height to accommodate text, or text needs to be truncated. I like that you can now see other users' friends. The lack of this ability prior to this very nearly rendered the friend feature useless. The tab view (Activity/About Me) is a nice touch -- should be expanded on to include "Full Stats" and more detailed Online and Live chess pages if these can't (or shouldn't) be accomodated on the main page and maybe even an "Explore my Games" tab. I'm sure I'll have more as I continue to tinker, but all in all I'd say it's an improvement.

The previews on previous Tactics Trainer problems are usually reversed, i.e. there's black on the bottom when the player takes white, and the other way round. http://imgur.com/ETipK This leads to some confusion when trying to find a problem- the problem and the preview are from opposite sides. Note: This happens only for problems where the computer takes the first move. If the first move belongs to the player (rare in problems but happens), then the preview is correct. Examples: Problem 0027873 (computer plays first: preview with black on bottom, problem with white on bottom) Problem 0028698 (computer plays first: preview with white on bottom, problem with black on bottom) Problem 0025157 (player plays first: white on bottom in both preview and problem)

When you roll over a problem ID in Tactics Trainer's "Recent Problems" list, the problem's chess board position is loaded asynchronically via AJAX. There are several problems with that: The results are currently not cached, i.e. if a given position is loaded once, then it doesn't need be loaded from the server next time I roll over the problem- it can just be remembered. Just rolling the mouse over the IDs (be it accidentally or intentionally) causes dozens of parallel HTTP GET requests to be sent at the same time, which bloats the server AND makes the actual response slower for the user Performance-wise, it would be best to transfer all 20 board positions from the problem list (as data), plus one CSS sprite sheet for the mini-board graphics, and assemble that on the client side with Javascript on mouseover. This would also make the UI much snappier. An alternative is just to pre-load the problem images along with the page. That's how it's done ATM with current and recent games in My Online Games. This eats more bandwidth than the above, but is just as snappy, i.e. no "loading".

The daily puzzle opens fine, if I click on solution the pieces move correctly, but I can not drag the pieces.

Just noticed it while reporting another bug. See the screenshot: http://imgur.com/Y39Q2 Chrome 17, Windows 7.

On every page I visit (including the chess.com home page) I can see several Javascript errors and warnings in the JavaScript Console (on Chrome 17): 1. (Reported every mouse move) > event.layerX and event.layerY are broken and deprecated in WebKit. They will be removed from the engine in the near future. 2. (Both reported once) Resource interpreted as Image but transferred with MIME type text/plain: "http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel;r=884483774;a=p-93vmRJG_BQlqo;fpan=0;fpa=P0-476996201-1330113995082;ns=1;ce=1;je=1;sr=1680x1050x32;enc=n;dst=1;et=1330725174463;tzo=-60;ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chess.com%2F;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chess.com%2F;ogl=". Resource interpreted as Image but transferred with MIME type text/plain: "http://b.scorecardresearch.com/b?c1=7&c2=5964888&rn=0.5535223244223744&c7=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chess.com%2Fforum%2Fpost.html%3Fgid%3D12570&c3=2&c4=&c5=&c6=&c10=&c15=&c16=&c8=&c9=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chess.com%2Fforum%2Fpost.html%3Fgid%3D12570&cv=1.8". 3. Reported once http://www.googletagservices.com/tag/js/gpt.jsFailed to load resource

it seems to me that "DRAW PROPOSAL" should be more visible in redesigned version of websight. more then several times i didn't see, on time, that someone offered me a draw. or opposite, when I offered a draw my rival havn't seen it. Have someone same expirience?

Somebody mentioned they saw this yesterday, I just got it myself. I've been using this view and it's been working normally for the last day and a half until I saw it just now. It persisted after a page reaload. FireFox 10.0.2

I'm not sure if that's the right name for the interface element, but the yellow window that shows new games to move, new messages, new forum post activity, etc, doesn't seem to act quite right. For example, I just logged in and had ONE game notification in the yellow window, but had FOUR new games come ready in the time I was away. This has been happening all afternoon I think. Similarly, when I logged in just now, it showed that I had new comments to read, but when I clicked on that link, there was nothing new to read. Very peculiar.

When I tap Home on iPad, but then change my mind and want to stay on the page I'm on, I have a hArd time getting rid of the menu. Doing the usual, ie tapping anywhere on the page, doesn't do it. it just stays open.

For ease of posting, I clipped the page to Evernote: it can be viewed, along with the URL by viewing the note referenced in the publicly shared link below. https://www.evernote.com/shard/s148/sh/498f946b-c42a-4403-9528-156e255f372d/6f2c50ae24af2924625ba22808528e12

When viewing another player's profile, I can see their Friends displayed in icon form on the left side of their page. However, when I click on "Friends" right above the icons it brings me to MY friends, not to THEIR friends. This is inconsistent with the behaviour for Groups, in which I can see their groups but the Groups link on their page brings me to THEIR full group list. Expected behaviour: clicking on Friends in somebody elses profile will show me THEIR friends.

On a very general note, I use this website on two conventional laptop computers with horizontally wide screens (one aspect ratio is close to 2:1, the other is closer to 1.5:1). By chosing a narrow vertical layout for most pages on the site, you are forcing me to waste a good 50% of my screen real estate and I am constantly scrolling up and down to find stuff. While I realize this might be a "cool look" it seems kind of counterproductive from a usability standpoint. Below is typical for my taller screen; it's even worse for the other (2:1) laptop. You can see that the scroll bar indicates that you're only displaying half of the available page, even though my screen is half black. This might be good for one of those new-fangled apple computers with the up-and-down screens but for us who live out in the sticks, so to speak, it ain't so great.

Where it normally it would show how many hours left till my (are) turn is over, it does not show anything. Screen shot will hopefuly clarify.

i'm having a hard time reading light colored text in the "Black" theme...for example the text in the "Theme Name" "Create Date" & "Number of Users" columns in the below image. I use Chrome, if that matters.

I'm using Chrome on an IMac running Lion, and while the cross hairs do show up in the ELO graph, there is some issue with them being able to seek to any place on the graph. They appear to simply be trying to follow the pointer, but it is impossible to accurately select any portion of the graph, and most of the graph is not reachable via the cross hairs. Great idea to have the feature, but not yet ready, at least on my system.