clicking on socials also doesn't auto take you to forums now
not a big deal but I'm lazy
Hover over "social" -- I see forums.
yeah but you used to be able to just click the button without hovering over it
(the og social button would take you to forums if you clicked it)
Ahh, I see what you mean.
BTW, has there been an announcement of this on chess.com anywhere? Or, is this one of those software changes that effects everybody immediately that they pushed without bother to tell folks?
BTW, has there been an announcement of this on chess.com anywhere? Or, is this one of those software changes that effects everybody immediately that they pushed without bother to tell folks?
It's just in beta right now, from a member perspective. Which happens in beta 
the route to enter the blogs has disappeared
We're working on it! This being beta, things aren't finalized yet—our apologies for the inconvenience.
It's there now.
BTW, has there been an announcement of this on chess.com anywhere? Or, is this one of those software changes that effects everybody immediately that they pushed without bother to tell folks?
It's just in beta right now, from a member perspective. Which happens in beta
Two things:
1. I apologize for jumping the gun -- I asked a few friends and they saw it too, but I didn't realize they were also beta, and so I assumed it was rolled out for everybody
2. That said, why wasn't there a notice about this in the Beta forum/blog/area? A short article to let us know what was happening (which, I would think, in the long run would result in less work because fewer folks would post asking "what's happening")
Is there an easy way to check if you have new messages from the new interface.
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2. That said, why wasn't there a notice about this in the Beta forum/blog/area? A short article to let us know what was happening (which, I would think, in the long run would result in less work because fewer folks would post asking "what's happening")
I can't say why it wasn't posted about, but a lot of more minor things aren't.
Is there an easy way to check if you have new messages from the new interface.
Just clicking on Home
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2. That said, why wasn't there a notice about this in the Beta forum/blog/area? A short article to let us know what was happening (which, I would think, in the long run would result in less work because fewer folks would post asking "what's happening")
I can't say why it wasn't posted about, but a lot of more minor things aren't.
I hear you. But I don't see it as minor. Everybody uses the Nav bar on the left all the time.
It's certainly very well used, but I'd personally put it in a category less than major
It takes some getting used to but is something that is fairly intuitive to see what's changed and really isn't functionally that different. Most of the changes that get News releases are pretty large changes or completely new features.
Is there an easy way to check if you have new messages from the new interface.
Just clicking on Home
But there’s no way to get updates without clicking on stuff?
clicking on socials also doesn't auto take you to forums now
not a big deal but I'm lazy
Hover over "social" -- I see forums.
yeah but you used to be able to just click the button without hovering over it
(the og social button would take you to forums if you clicked it)