Club Redesign: Five questions to @jdcannon

I thought that. Very hard to see.

Yes, it's here but not super helpful.

Also I tried to setup a daily match and the title wasn't filled in the form automatically, maybe it's if you leave it empty and create the match? Or the update takes time to roll out, I don't know. Or it's beta.

I did a challenge today and it didn’t autofill the title.

Looks that autofill match names is still part of the Beta universe and will need a few more days to be back for everyone.

Frankly, we're talking about very few and tiny steps to bring back what we simply had for years already.

Chess.com's lack of imagination, propositions and action towards minimising long-lasting and detailed described club problems worries me much more ... than the embarrassing low speed for implementing these mini roll-backs which do not create any real progress.

I’d like a better club page. With notes and a decent private description area. And matches shown better like before.

Getting the match scores back is great. However it doesn't show which team they relate to. They are shown in the match order but unless you open the match you don;t know who is winning. Used to have team icon at the side of the scores.

@Kookaburrea: Sure, there is a long list of things, which clubs redesign has destroyed for no known reason.

@Tricky_Dicky: Team icons are now part of the dark background. Very often bad design damages functionality, doesn't it?

Thanks Bernd. Just looked at Team England current matches in both Light and Dark UI. Can't see any indication of which score relates to which team. Windows 10, Chrome browser.

@Tricky_Dicky: Yes, you're right. Enlarged screenshot in comment #1227 shows better that they are part of the dark background.

Perhaps they can improve this within another four weeks ... or four months.

Right now we're only in week 22 of "post development process".

Wonder how they test anything. And decide it’s ok. Or maybe they don’t.

There's many things I thought needed improvement in the old design, and there's many things I appreciate in the new one, but the way score were displayed was just perfect: clear, efficient, both teams were easy to identify, score easy to read, and leading team clearly displayed. With the new one, it's very difficult to identify teams (barely noticeable logo), to know who is winning (just the numbers are coloured, and by the way the red number used to be reserved to timeouts, so it's confusing my brain every time I end up on that page). It's not really more compact either.

Old one, for reference :

I think I remember hearing the updates could take a week to roll out site wide. Many companies will release updates on a Wed so they have time before and after to address things that may come up so it might have just started rolling out yesterday. Beyond speculation I dont know anymore on that topic.

Shown parameters in Multi Club Arenas are still incomplete:

As you can see, players only get the "game type", the time control and they would get the number of scorers, if set.

Players don't get an information, that games are rated, what the pairing logic is and how many games are required to join the Arena.

A few days ago, I've set a Chess960 Arena with "25 minimum games" and created some confusion, because players couldn't understand, why they aren't allowed to join.

Would be great, if all parameters of Arenas would be shown to participants, wouldn't it?

Try clearing your browser cache. It looks fine for me.

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@Martin_Stahl: Yes, you're right. It was a mobile browser issue. I've deleted my previous comment. Closing and re-opening the browser was quite enough ...

How to decline seven unwanted challenges?

There are seven alerts in Chess.com's "toaster". As it is Saturday they most likely are challenges from a weekly spammer. In the past one could ignore incoming nonsense like this, now you have to decline them one by one to avoid them blocking everything.

1. Click on your "toaster": A dysfunctional menu appears (arrow on the left side).
2. Click on "view" to get redirected e.g. to one your outgoing challenges ... and you'll see a new "toaster" version with only one alert:
3. Click on your "toaster" to get the first of seven pending challenges. As the arrow is on the right side now, this one will work:
4. Click on "view" to get access to your first pending challenge:
5. Now you can decline the challenge.
6. If you go to another page now, you'll get a new alert with 6 pending challenges. Clicking on your "toaster" would give you another dysfunctional list of three challenges ...
   If you decide per hasard to refresh the page, to don't need to redo several steps and get directly a single alert.
7. Redo step 3 to get access to challenge #2.
8. Redo step 4 to "view" challenge #2.
9. Decline challenge #2.
10. Refresh the page.
11. Redo step 3 to get access to challenge #3.
12. Redo step 4 to "view" challenge #3.
13. Decline challenge #3.
14. Refresh the page.
15. Redo step 3 to get access to challenge #4.
16. Redo step 4 to "view" challenge #4.
17. Decline challenge #4.
18. Refresh the page.
19. Redo step 3 to get access to challenge #5.
20. Redo step 4 to "view" challenge #5.
21. Decline challenge #5.
22. Refresh the page.
23. Redo step 3 to get access to challenge #6.
24. Redo step 4 to "view" challenge #6.
25. Decline challenge #6.
26. Refresh the page.
27. Redo step 3 to get access to challenge #7.
28. Redo step 4 to "view" challenge #7.
29. Decline challenge #7.
30. Refresh the page.

Sounds a bit strange, doesn't it?

By the way: You can't get access to these pending challenges from your menu with incoming challenges. If there are several pending challenges, you always get redirected e.g. to one of your pending outgoing challenges. You only can get access as described.

OMG! Thank you I hadn't noticed the buttons got reversed.. that's a good observation. This new 'feature' with the pop-up challenges that don't go away is really annoying.. why is Chess com allowing this sort of spam while still (presumably) restricting us from messaging our team members which they treat as spam?

Fun fact: Some months ago I've got immediately muted for having contracted "who are" in a forum comment. Have had some conversation about this with @jdcannon.

In the meantime Chess.com has improved its filter. Instead of getting muted, you now get just a community guideline warning for contracting "who are": https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/your-post-seems-to-not-fit-our-community-guidelines

I was a happy admin once. Now this year has been a shocker. Spoke to GM Haubi here a day or so ago. He seems happy.