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.
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 
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
WELCOME TO LIVE CHESS!
222070 players. 69960 games.
One year ago it was rare to see 100,000 players. Now they're getting 220K on a Tuesday.
As much as I like to take shots at @Erik from time to time, I think we have to admit that the issues aren't due to negligence... at least not solely (I know the site wasn't perfect 3 years ago)... and that no amount of due diligence would have prepared a chess website to handle the wave they've seen.
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
WELCOME TO LIVE CHESS!
222070 players. 69960 games.
One year ago it was rare to see 100,000 players. Now they're getting 220K on a Tuesday.
Its called Titled Tuesday and Untitled Tuesday
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.
In 1998, I started playing on Chess.net.
I had played on a telnet connection once in the late-1980s while visiting my brother, who is a programmer and helped a little with ICC in the early- or mid-1990s.
ICS started in 1992 and was sold and redone as ICC in 1995. I don't know what there was in the 1980s but the telnet protocol has been around what seems like forever. I started playing online in 1996 at ICC where you could play free as a guest. . So I never got to play on ICC. When I started playing, Guis seemed to have just come into common use. I remember people at the time telling me I was lucky to start when I did. I migrated to the newly created FICS. There were various FICS servers around the world. I played a lot on the Danish FICS.
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.
First, comparing Y! to chess.com to seeming set a standard is like comparing a garbage heap to McDonald's to highlight the latter's fine cuisine.
Second, Y! didn't introduce online chess, not even close...they just found a way to make it unappealing.
Third, almost every comment in this thread has been respectfully critical.... yours is one of the exceptions.
Batgirl is turning to be cleverer day by day.
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
WELCOME TO LIVE CHESS!
222070 players. 69960 games.
One year ago it was rare to see 100,000 players. Now they're getting 220K on a Tuesday.
Its called Titled Tuesday and Untitled Tuesday
I thought that was the first Tuesday of every month?
Shows how much I know.
Hey Ilama47, How do you get this much knowledge and wisdom?
You are indeed a wise man. 
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
WELCOME TO LIVE CHESS!
222070 players. 69960 games.
One year ago it was rare to see 100,000 players. Now they're getting 220K on a Tuesday.
Its called Titled Tuesday and Untitled Tuesday
I thought that was the first Tuesday of every month?
Shows how much I know.
No it is every Tuesday
I had internet for the first time in 2013
I had internet for the first time in 2013
I used the public library in 1996, and soon after that had it through work when the department let me use an old computer. As adjunct faculty, I got less support than the tenure-track faculty. In 1998, I was able to use my university account on my home computer. At that time, there were not restrictions on using this internet for personal gratification like playing chess online.
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
WELCOME TO LIVE CHESS!
222070 players. 69960 games.
One year ago it was rare to see 100,000 players. Now they're getting 220K on a Tuesday.
Its called Titled Tuesday and Untitled Tuesday
I thought that was the first Tuesday of every month?
Shows how much I know.
No it is every Tuesday
Wait wait wait...
Both of them? Untitled and Titled are every week now?
Pretty sure it wasn't always like that, or I'm going crazy.
I thought that was the first Tuesday of every month?
Shows how much I know.
No it is every Tuesday
Wait wait wait...
Both of them? Untitled and Titled are every week now?
Pretty sure it wasn't always like that, or I'm going crazy.
Yes every week for a while now
It's still so high...
237695 players. 73897 games.
How many players participate, and how long do the tournament last?
I had internet for the first time in 2013
I used the public library in 1996, and soon after that had it through work when the department let me use an old computer. As adjunct faculty, I got less support than the tenure-track faculty. In 1998, I was able to use my university account on my home computer. At that time, there were not restrictions on using this internet for personal gratification like playing chess online.
In 1983 when it was still ARPANet, you had to know how to route your own Email ...addresses looked like this:
hubhost!middlehost!edgehost!user@uucpgateway.somedomain.example.com
With "!" between each network jump. All the punctuation had names:
! = bang
* = splat
etc.
My Email address at UC Santa Cruz was 2 full lines of text.
My first email address looked a little like user@uucpgateway.somedomain.example.com
But within a year had been reduced to user@wsu.edu
A committee I served on as the graduate student representative in the early 1990s was my first direct exposure to emails in the form of long printouts of short conversations where every remark except the very last one was repeated multiple times. A whole forest was lost to the work of that committee.
My first email address looked a little like user@uucpgateway.somedomain.example.com
But within a year had been reduced to user@wsu.edu
A committee I served on as the graduate student representative in the early 1990s was my first direct exposure to emails in the form of long printouts of short conversations where every remark except the very last one was repeated multiple times. A whole forest was lost to the work of that committee.
Heh, I am responsible for my own share of trees being chopped down...I could not afford a Unix C manual, but all the entries were on the network, so I just went to the /man directory and printed all the files in a batch job, which did not make the people at the print lab happy.
Yes, you are absolutely correct. I have played in all the chess websites that exist today. I checked all of the features of all sites. And I found chess.com has the most attractive and user friendly interfaces in all aspects. Thanks chess.com! Thanks Eric! Thanks all the Staff and Moderators!
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.
In 1998, I started playing on Chess.net.
http://www.chess.net
I had played on a telnet connection once in the late-1980s while visiting my brother, who is a programmer and helped a little with ICC in the early- or mid-1990s.