Suggestion about Custom Game seek.

I think an open custom game seek option can solve a problem. It can look like that of above.

What does this option do? What problem is it supposed to solve?

We have problems finding players for custom games most of the time.

and this option can find players who are interested to the seeks. The private seek need not be excluded.

Public seeks can be shown to online players. Maybe a little more classification on where they can see the seek can be given by the admins.

It need not be directly under the "Watch" tab.

So for a Public Seek you won't need to invite players, correct?

We can do both.. invite them.. as well as let others get into the game.

So you could invite two players, and seek for one more to complete a 4 players board and start the game, correct?

Yes!!!

The bulk of the work would be on the UI that would show the available custom games to players searching for a game. A player should be able to review all options selected, before deciding to join a custom game. Then the rating-range settings of all players should also be considered, because a player should not be allowed to join if his rating was outside the range of a player that has already joined. It's a lot of work to do, but surely would increase massively the popularity of custom games.

@MainframeSupertasker, thank you. We are working on this now, but I don't think we'll use Watch tab for that. Imagine that there are 5 custom games, in this case Top Games won't be visible. But yes, we are going to create a list of public custom games waiting for players (anyone who wants) to join.

Take a look at our test server: https://www.chess.com/4pc-test

Looks very nice!
Maybe the type of game (FFA/Teams) should be more prominent than the time control. Also it would be nice to see the players that have already joined a game.