Latest feature to be removed by chess.com

Here's are the latest features that chess.com have removed from my games.

You might forgive me for wondering if this is a gradual systematic assault on my membership rights as a Premium Member.

I would be very interested to hear from any other Windows 7 user if they are also experiencing the same gradual withdrawing of chess.com features like me. There must be someone out there in the World still using Windows 7 surely !

Could you be a little more specific about what we’re supposed to be looking for here?

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/bugged-icons

apologies ....its the areas that I have enclosed with a thick red rectangle. These are some of many features that have been greyed out and are no longer either visible or usable on my account.

I am unable to see my opponents game record or Stats as that has been greyed out .

I can no longer abort any game ......nor can I see when my opponent joined chess.com ....

there are many other features that have been removed or blocked.

Martin says its because I am still using Windows 7 but that would not gradually remove various options and features....I firmly believe I am being systematically targeted because I have been critical of chess.com in the past

That's absolutely false.

Windows 7 went end of support in January of 2020. The last version of Chrome supported on Windows 7 is 109, released in 2023. Last version of Firefox is 115, which surprisingly still got security updates (not features) until February of this year.

The site is updating various parts of the site with code that is not supported on older browsers. The minimum supported browser versions are

• Chrome (Chromium) : 119

• Edge : 119

• Firefox : 128

• Safari : 17

Approximately 1.6% of systems on the Internet are using Windows 7. I would imagine that that percentage here is similar or less. Eventually, the site stop supporting old operating systems. That includes Android, iOS, and Windows systems.

Martin ....I have been using Windows 7 without any issues for the past 25 years .

The fact that Windows 7 and Windows 10 have been unsupported by Microsoft since 2022 has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on how it is used on chess.com.....

I was still using Win 7 and opera when I renewed and upgraded my chess.com membership earlier this year ....again with zero issues.

It is chess.com that has decided to exclude members using Windows 7 NOT Microsoft. I currently use it everywhere else on countless forums and website groups with any issues including Litchess.

What chess.com is doing is forcing members to upgrade their Operating system and their Browsers and all of their software programs, some of which are extremely expensive . In my case upgrading my operating system will only cost me a mere 250$ but all of my photo and video editing software could easily add over 1000$ to that.

What really annoys me is that, ..as usual, ... chess.com have at no point warned their membership that they were intending to exclude those using Windows 7 OS and opera browser.

apparently according to AI there are Approximately 6 billion people using the internet globally, representing about 74% of the world's population.

if only a third of those are using Windows 7 that's still a huge amount of users

Commercial companies dont like old stuff

yes I accept that....its all about money and profits but at least chess.com could have warned members earlier this year that they intended to exclude legacy os users .I might have decided not to renew if I knew that I was going to be excluded from playing chess on here a few months later.

I would not count on that

Approximately 1.6% of Internet users are on Windows 7. It's orders of magnitude lower than 1/3rd.

I believe the site does have a pop-up on old browsers, suggesting members update, though I don't know how often that's done, or if it's repeated after being dismissed.

I completely understand about unsupported systems. I have a tablet that's generally usable, but doesn't receive updates from the manufacturer anymore, doesn't support updated apps, and the browsers on it are too old for many sites to work correctly.

That said, eventually, software stops being supported fully, for many different reasons. I don't know the specifics for the updated code that's only supported on the previously listed browser versions, just that more and more things are going to be updated that might not be supported on older versions of the browsers.

It's not just Chess.com stopping support. Chrome, Firefox, and even Microsoft no longer supports the old systems.

Windows 7? I'm surprised that chess.com allows its usage at all. Yes, chess.com should just dump your account, and say get an updated system. Oh, wait, you might complain if they did that instead of the gradual phase out they are currently doing.

No, you haven't. Windows 7 was released in 2009, that's "only" 17 years ago. What you used 25 years ago was probably Windows XP.

I'd be scared to use Windows 7 connected to the internet at this point. It hasn't received security updates for years, opening you up to all kinds of malware and attacks. I think that would be much more concerning than a chess website no longer supporting it.

I used windows vista once in 2020 but not with internet