New Features & Fixes - May 26 2009

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We did a few minor things today:

- New homepage ( http://www.chess.com )! Should be much cleaner and easier on the eyes. Don't forget to check it out when you are not logged in!

- Messages: Some people were upset about old messages being deleted. We're very sorry :( We have now added the ability to "Archive" messages. Just go to any message you want to save and click on ARCHIVE. Everyone can archive 25 messages.

- Added "Daily Columns" to the READ navigation bar. Cool feature! -> http://www.chess.com/daily-columns.html

- removed the points gained by submitting questions to the Endless Quiz (you used to get 10 points for submitting a question - now you get none, people were abusing it)

- added more pages of comments to: http://www.chess.com/tactics/comments.html

- added ability to search by pass % here: http://www.chess.com/tactics/problems.html

That's it :) Small stuff!

Avatar of Mekhami

forums link on the logged-in front page doesn't work... the one in the center of the page? Recent Forum Posts or what not? Broken.

 

also, what news on iPhone? There's a link to it but no info.

Avatar of Mekhami

Also, ironically, for a few minutes during the downtime I had a favicon back, on google chrome 2.0... but it's gone again. Need favicons!

Avatar of erik

favicon is there :) try control+f5.

also, iphone info coming soon!

Avatar of onosson
erik wrote:

also, iphone info coming soon!


Sweet!  I hope I made it into the beta testing...

Avatar of motat

Homepage looks great!!!!

Avatar of Mekhami

favicon not working with google chrome 2.0...

Avatar of wubowen100

awesome main page!

Avatar of wubowen100

one bug, though. i voted for the vote on the homepage and now i am able to vota again, but nothhing happens after i made my choice and submit

Avatar of THEWHITEFOX

cool homepage

Avatar of Wesso

The new home page looks great!  Very functional and sharp.

Avatar of KnightNotHorse

Always appreciate you keeping us in the loop, no matter how large or small the outage/update is.  Laughing

Avatar of infinitum

Wow, I must say, this is a most welcome change. Just beautiful. When the page loaded today, I was really stunned for a bit :)

Yet again great work Erik and Staff :) Thanks for everything

Avatar of brfc

Brilliant Erik, you've done us chess players proud as well

Avatar of oginschile

Bravissimo.... as usual.

Avatar of Nelso_125

The new homepage is awesome!!

Avatar of Nabeal

Homepage effort.............. appreciated Wink.

Avatar of Zhane

Love the new homepage erik thanks

Avatar of gabrielconroy

Looks great. Also, favicons don't work for me either, on the latest Firefox.

Avatar of qixel

I have to tell ya'...that central column on the Homepage where you list Articles, Forum Posts, News, and Blogs isn't wide enough for a lot of the titles, so I can't tell in some cases what the topics are.  Is there any way you can narrow the block to the left to make the center larger?  And can you bring back the names of the posters?  I like to read certain posters and it's convenient to see them on the homepage.

Because now I'm reading titles like:

US Champs and a Tribute to B...

Your Questions Answered by A...

I really would like to know who "A" and "B" are before I click on the title.

 

Amy