For me, the buttons is pretty near the top:
As for alerts, they should dismis as you click on them. You might want to look at your alerts setting and disable some of the ones you are not finding useful so they don't pile up.
Do you mean in solo chess?
Yes! Sorry for the late reply (just saw it now)... as for the tabs... I see ads above the club banner/map or whatever you want to call it. so rather than having it there... it might be near the bottom of the screen. Also it's worse on the home screen. Maybe it's the difference from diamond membership and free membership XD
So it's a little bit confusing if you want to create a new topic in the forum of a club because you have to click on forum on the side... Would be nice if a button was added by the top of the forum or something.
Notifications are nice but if people let them pile up just like me, you have to scroll to get what you want and it's sometimes not noticeable, especially when there's not some indicator that says "NEW STUFF THAT HASN'T BEEN READ" like a visual aid such as a different shape or color. I know it has the number but that doesn't tell me what I have glanced or not glanced over and deemed not as important and I may never actually read.
In the training mode where you recapture all of your own pieces until there's one left... the instructions are hard to find and not easy to understand for a couple of times.