Change Log

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Hi there, Chessians!

We're going to try to keep this thread up to date with our changes. That way, if you have reported a bug and you track this thread, you should see when the bug is fixed. Also, if you are waiting to try out something new, it will be announced here in the evening after it is released to the beta test site.

Changes Sep 3-5:

New releases — alpha state, so expect rough edges!

1. tournaments — list pages and integration with member homepage
2. clubs
3. blogs

Major work:

• images and thumbnails (proper scaling and resolution)
• Daily Chess home page fleshed out and member homepage Daily Chess grid improved

Improved and fixed:

• lots of bug fixes from "oops" pages and the like
• better automated testing improved to avoid regressing on fixed bugs
• some layout issues (board auto-sizing, membership icon indicators)
• chess board diagrams fixes (displaying FENs as images)
• data conflicts with actions taken by opponents on the old site (caching issues)
• time calculations and display improvements (vacation, rounding, last-action bug)
• tactics "next tactic" handling and move-after-done error
• friends-list displays (now selecting actual friends!)

Not yet available, but making progress:

• custom tournament trophies (not quite there!)
• getting closer to supporting personal themes, including new v3 upgrades
• many admin functions throughout the site

Remember to check back whenever we fix or release something you're interested in!

Changes Sep 6-10:

New releases — alpha state, so expect rough edges!

• No new features released

Major work:

• Blogs: main page listing
• Clubs: create/edit controls, access controls, membership lists, forums
• Tournaments: navigation, multi-page lists
• Create new game option added/improved on member home

Improved and fixed:

• Internal security issues
• Comments: many small unrelated bugs, diagrams in posts
• Member homepage: friends lists, clickable ratings
• Tactics stats page
• Time-remaining displays, including vacation updates
• Default image displays, improved scaling, retina-resolution tests

Not yet available, but making progress:

• Themes! New pieces and boards released & available in v2
• Member-to-Member messages
• Some email notifications still offline; most use old emails
• Team matches

Geek stats: 18 contributors  Commits 100   Files changed 247

Changes Sep 11-12

New releases — alpha state, so expect rough edges!

• Themes! Check them out under the "Settings" menu
• Openings Explorer — please use this actively! We need a lot of use to identify remaining bugs.

Major work:

• Play vs Computer (bugfixes, difficulty tweaks)
• Beta-access to all in this group

Improved and fixed:

• Clubs: joining, forum "last viewed"
• Forums: layout errors, some typographical errors
• Tournaments: player summary, live tournament lists
• General display issues: times and time zones

Not yet available, but making progress:

• Live Chess: this is a large project, and is weeks or more away, but major progress was made this week.
• User notes on member pages & member-to-member messages
• Improved switching between beta and the production site (no more missing pages!)
• Videos — list page, sidebar, search
• Chess TV & Events
• General search capabilities

Geek stats: 19 contributors  Commits 63   Files changed 152

Changes Sep 13-16

New releases — alpha state, so expect rough edges!

• URL corrections: now switching between v3 and the old site should not produce any "Missing" pages. If it does, report this as a bug! This also means that old URLs in forums and articles should work in v3, and vice-versa.

Major work:

• Security improvements: staff/mode restrictions on edits; Blogs temporarily deactivated; club membership modifications
• ...and a ton of bug fixes! Based on your feedback we are prioritzing fixing everything before building new things. This doesn't take everyone, so new features will come out, but we want you to know that you are supplying us with great feedback, and we're working hard to address it all!

Improved and fixed:

• Themes: tactics, explorer (board, coordinates display)
• Openings & thematic games: speed and consistency updates
• Find friends: corrections in search and display
• Clubs: custom images, club creation bug fixes, country flag display correction
• Games: data integrity during game-end archiving, analysis triggers, summary image orientation based on player position
• Deactivated pending readiness reviews: many "missing" settings pages; clubs votechess; blogs
• Misc: slow-connection stability ("race conditions"), UI bugs for Open Challenges, some incorrect avatar sizes, general displays of HTML special-character codes

Not yet available, but making progress:

• Much more Live Chess user-interface
• New "Study Plan" format for lessons (changes required a temporary removal of Chess Mentor lesson editing in the old site)

Geek stats: 22 contributors  Commits 75   Files changed 113

Changes Sep 17-19

New releases — alpha state, so expect rough edges!

• Registration process and many pages now viewable as logged-out (but you still need to be logged in to view v3, so you'll need to trust us)

Major work:

• Daily Chess: home, boar position & responsiveness
• Video library display and playback
• Tournaments: proper categorization and display of your personal tournament list; player summary improved

Improved and fixed:

• Forum and comment editing — no more double-posts from edits!
• Board settings (Analysis board), and special treatment for large screens
• UI fixes: image sizing & cropping, vs-computer text, tooltip text, width of stats lists, Daily Chess icon, board/piece defaults
• Permissions-based visibility of create/edit/delete buttons (comments, topics, blogs, etc)

Not yet available, but making progress:

• Disabled: club members page
• More work on full-text search
• Speed optimizations (caching, mostly)
• Custom tournament trophies
• Live Chess: inline settings, move actions, app loading refinement

Geek stats:  28 contributors  Commits 246   Files changed 222