erik, we are frustrated

Funny how someone had the balls to address Erik, when he specifically states on his profile he welcomes praise and suggestions, but is not the complaint department. *snip*

*snip* Tactical Trainer is a great tool for seeing if your opponent is the real deal or a cheater. You can't cheat that thing, *snip*

back to the bots-

a member wrote the f-bomb in a very popular topic (over 10,000 posts). i quoted it to show, once again, how bad the bots are. well, upon quoting i was instantly muted. no red banner warnings, just muted. *snip*

Funny how someone had the balls to address Erik, when he specifically states on his profile he welcomes praise and suggestions, but is not the complaint department. You guys are a bunch of pampered, entitled, spoiled brats. Yeah I have been playing chess online since Yahoo! introduced it and was a member of  the world's largest chess site, until chess.com came out. Chess.com quickly took the role as the number one site for chess on the planet, because they did a LOT of things. One, they had no "watchdog" program (a program installed on your computer as an exe, which cannot be played anywhere, but on your own devices). Two they never stopped innovating new  and brilliant features. Brand "X" never improved over 20 years. Chess.com improves almost daily. one feature I found particularly interesting is the feature about your stats that shows what chess moves (with names, like en passant) you use from the most to the least. Things like the Tactical Trainer is a great tool for seeing if your opponent is the real deal or a cheater. You can't cheat that thing, but it does have a limited library, so if you play it thousands of time you can get pretty good at it. Then you have Puzzle Rush, which is a fast paced exciting test of your ability to asses a situation in time constraints, which also  will give you a fair assessment of another player. There are hundreds of other things I could expound upon, but the bottom line is this site is the best of the best. My advice to you who feel frustrated, is to join another site and get a belly full of appreciation for what you have here.

try reading the whole topic. note that erik mentioned there are good suggestions. 

there is a difference between a$$-kissing, complaining for the sake of complaining, and pointing out where the site fails the members.

no one cares that you were on yahoo. this topic is not about any comparisons to other sites. prior to you being here, erik was quite open to suggestions. as the site has grown, there have been some large bumps in the road, so to speak. the incentive to start this topic is not because i/we hate the site. rather, it is pointing out where it can do better.

Most of us happen to think it's the best chess site. Just that it could be better. 

I don't know how you know you've played on all of them... Over the years I'll google for obscure sites just to try them. I've probably played on dozens. Yes chess.com is very good... "the most user friendly in all aspects" might be pushing the truth a bit  -- when you have so many features you necessarily need more buttons and/or menus... which creates a learning curve (however small it may be).

I’ve played on 25-30 sites, and I assure you that I have not played on all of them. I’ve been playing chess online almost daily since 1998. I’ve spent more time on chess.com than all the other sites combined, barely.

I’m 6-0 on Yahoo, and that is surely one of the worst.

My first one was chesslive, a Spanish site. It was excellent. The CEO is now staff here.

Another frustrating thing is that I keep clicking on the same alert and it remains there on my alert list. I click "X" and it returns when I refresh the page 

This seems to be a new bug that recurs off and on a lot the past week or two.

I am really losing my rag with the site with its constant bugs