And now it's being so "smart" that it decides it needs to refresh the whole thing and delete all the comments and lines I've added. It can't just sit and be patient -- it has to be constantly refreshing.
Seriously, developers, stop breaking useful functions so that they'll spew more pseudo-intelligent garbage.
So what online annotation board do I need to start using instead? The lichess board (which is better in many ways) doesn't appear to allow you to add text unless I'm missing something obvious.
https://www.chess.com/board-reports/2025-q4#keyMetrics In the USA amazingly it's claimed that about 15% of the population are members (44M/346M) of chess.com. What % of these members care about annotating chess games?
If you have nothing to contribute to a discussion other than dismissing the OP's issues as a 'it's your problem' thing, you may as well keep your non-value opinions to yourself.
I'm not at all dismissing the issue. I was pointing out with good evidence that cdc dismisses issues like this and will surely continue to do so.
It used to be the chess.com analysis board was a decent place to analyze and annotate your games. But the new updates seem determined to assume we're all imbeciles incapable of fucntioning without virtual help. It's important, when annotating games, to be able to use your own judgment in what moves to assign a "?!" or a "!," and I used to be able to do this. But now the engine insists on overriding anything I do with its own silicon opinions. The "?!" indications I give to moves that, while not objectively wrong, were a step in the wrong direction, get deleted as soon as I've moved on from the move. And the engine insists on marking as dubious moves that really aren't that consequential to what went wrong, and puts these annotations back a second after I delete them. Is there a setting that will turn this infuriating feature off?
Seriously, people, an engine is a tool to help us judge what's an inaccuracy and a wrong plan, etc and why. It's not the final arbiter of the line between a mistake and a blunder, etc. The people who subject us to this nonsense are digging their own grave, because the day nobody cares enough about *figuring out* what was going on in a game so as to be able to annote the game themselves (even with engine assistance) is the day chess dies.