Upvotes / Downvotes on Chess.com

I gave you a "thumbs up" and voted your post down.  Why?  because i can :-)

Have a Merry Christmas E if i don't see you online before then.

A proactive Merry Christmas to you too!

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chess.com really needs to stop focusing on the social part of it and start focusing on the chess part of it

they should start by not removing live, whos with me

My guess is they'll ditch the emojis. The big difference between the two -- other than aesthetics -- is that the emojis aren't anonymous. That's pretty much required. You can't know who put in a negative vote or things get resentful.

But seriously, if you want a place that doesn't seem overrun, encourage others to indicate how they feel about it without joining the fray. Or maybe see it as a way of replacing the emojis, rather than adding on to them -- which would seem pretty redundant.

Awards...badges...icons....emojis...CAPs score..."brilliant" moves...up votes...down votes...

Rewarding people for doing nothing more than clicking a button.  Welcome to the internet.

I don't really mind the up/down votes but the interface is starting to get a bit cluttered. Perhaps they should hide the arrows until you hover over the message.

Either have reactions or upvotes and downvotes. Not both. This is overkill.

Remove play, not live.

Welcome to the further proliferation of social media mindlessness.  It has less to do with the internet itself than it does with using the internet to manipulate people.  

As long as play works just like live I won’t have a problem with it, but right now it feels too… absent. Like they dumbed down the interface. 

I prefer play. The live one makes the pieces look weird. It looks like it's using some old flash type interface I don't know why it blurs the pieces slightly, regardless of browser.

It scares me that we cater to the lowest common denominator.  But i guess its easier to do that then to make people actually think. 

The site started as a social chess site.

Easier and more profitable.... it's a total win for chess. com.... for the members, it's a draw at best.

imo play just isn't for me

I like live much better

too bad we only have a few more days left until they officially remove live

Have they stated the reason for removing it? Good thing I prefer play. I can't stand how live looks ;/

I have a great idea - They could let us upvote/downvote the reactions... :-)

They're not going to keep two interfaces and update both. New updates and features are only going into the Play interface. Also, I'm pretty sure the site has updates coming that will require the old interface to be retired (or require coding both for those updates and they're not going to double the work and testing).