Important drop down menu in self analysis board no longer functions! - Chess Forums

flashlight002

Jul 19, 2019

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Hi guys.

I am mostly using the site with a Samsung Note 5 using Android 5.1.1 and using Chrome for Android as my web browser.

I mostly play daily games and use the self analysis board extensively.

This morning I noticed immediately that they had changed the daily game board layout to include at the side how much time a player had left to make a move...so I knew that the dev team had been working on the daily games area of the site.

NOW TO THE BUG/CHANGE:

As of this morning I could go into the self analysis board and long press on a move and a drop down menu with a host of VERY VERY USEFUL functions would appear...like "delete move", "promote", insert comment before or after" and many more. This helped me IMMENSELY with my self analyses. I could add annotations, remove a move if I didn't like it there, promote a sub variation, add the symbols ??, !, and a host of other great functions. NOW THEY ARE ALL GONE!! THE DROP DOWN LIST FAILS TO APPEAR NOW WHEN I LONG PRESS ON A MOVE!! I am quite upset about this.

I have attached a screenshot of what the drop down menu looked like. Sometimes it had more or less functions on it depending on the move I had long pressed and its context:

Funny enough if I go into a game analysis and go to the analysis tab and long press a saved self analysis move there (any of the moves in the grey bars) I still get this pop up menu.

Is anyone else using mobile now also experiencing this using Chrome for Android? By removing this functionality the chess.com dev team have removed my ability to annotate moves, delete them, promote a variation, or clean up a self analysis string of moves or variations.

I can't understand why they would just remove such useful functionality!! If any chess.com support staff are reading this please respond so we can sort this out.

flashlight002

Jul 19, 2019

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I just did a test and forced "desktop site" view. In this view if I long press a self analysis move the dropdown appears! But naturally I can't play in "desktop view". Everything is minute!!

flashlight002

Jul 19, 2019

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@PawnstormPossie I couldn't agree with you more. I don't know what chess com's user acceptance testing is or how they debug or beta test new improvements or changes to the site and the page code. Maybe they have a formal change testing, beta and production lifecycle/process. But lately it's like every time a change is made I find a bug that has crept in somewhere somehow. The guys at members support are real super stars at helping to sort matters out and squash these bugs. But it sure is time consuming and frustrating!

I also feel the dev guys don't seem to be testing mobile web view sufficiently. It feels like they test their changes for desktop and release to marketplace. But mobile web access needs to be tested too! I could naturally be completely wrong in my assumptions.

I access chess.com almost exclusively via a mobile web browser. And I am sure there are many like me. The site is a responsive one but when one makes changes strange things can happen (and from experience I know they often do!)