This was a stupid update

The menu bar used to be better because not only did it prevent accidental clicks that take you to the Home Screen on a touchscreen (now if you click the pawn it’s a home button instead of a menu) but also it’s hard to read how many notifs you have in just a single glance (99+ was better than 9+). Please create a way to get to the old menu without leaving beta. The only good thing is that the icons look updated.

fr man

hover over the button to see how many notifs you have but it only works like half the time

but who has more than 9 notifs at one time?

I do pretty much every session. Anyone in a lot of clubs or really active on the forums likely will

I thought it was bad but I got used to it and you can customize it

I have had 9+ notifs ever since I started using the new UI

I get 9+ notifs from just this club alone because people are talking everyday, but I would agree I wish they changed it back to 99+

Wait -- it can be customized?

Yes. Settings > Customize Sidebar

they changed it yayyy

I just looked at my notifs and saw that now instead of 9+ it said 17. I think chess.com listened to you.

me too