Renaming blitz to rapid? Huh?

Here is news link- https://www.chess.com/amp/news/10-minute-chess-now-rapid-rated-bullet-ratings-increased

I dunno how I feel about this? It's like re- naming jogging and now calling it walking. 

Interesting!  I like 10 minutes myself. 

Lichess has categorized 10i0 games as rapid for as long as I can remember.  I personally rarely play anything less than 10i0.  

I used to enjoy playing 10/0 

..I rarely ever play it these days. I prefer faster time settings.

Cheeky, I am disappointed in you. I thought you were right up with the latest news. You will have to learn to walk the walk..

I'm only 12 days behind. In dog years that's only about a mili-second. Woof, woof! 

So let me get this straight....a G10 game is now rated the same as G90?

That seems to be the case.

G is shorthand for game. For instance G10 would mean both players start with 10 minutes to play the chess game.

Your welcome

This seems to be the case. I just don't understand why? 

I am sure the management has its reasons. 

Seems like there should be a category for longer time control games. I mean there are several G30 tournaments played every day on chess.com. why not then have a rating for games of G30 or longer?

I wish chess.com rated every time mode with its own rating, but I can see why they don't.

Anyways, I preferred my 10 minute and 30 minute games rated differently. Probably because they were my two most played modes, I used 10 minutes when I wanted to speed it up a bit, now I use 30 for when I want to slow down. 

For arcane reasons, the 10 minute Blitz type was probably inflating the Blitz pool ratings. 

Yeah, chess.com should have a 'classical' rating just like (Another Website). Classical could be for all games 60|0 or longer imo.

10 minutes is very long and not blitz. It's rapid.

copying lichess hmm...

Well, also their own statistics make it reasonable.

IIRC the most popular time control is 10 minute, and it's obviously played by a different group (i.e. played by noobs) than 3 minute (which is played by pros).

So it's reasonable to separate them for that reason too.