New review presentation is awfull

TossiCheeser · 2024-05-20T17:24:09-07:00

Long story short: I hate it! First: it is bloated. The highlights screen doesn't even fit the screen. Scrolling it or reducing the size of the site feels annoying. Second: once you start a review if you want to see the highlights again you have to exit the review. And on top of that you have to

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immersive_microcosm

Mar 11, 2025

#601

Martin_Stahl wrote:

kliedesys wrote:

A new game review has gotten overwhelmingly negative reception, and even months after its release, people are still expressing their utter dissatisfaction with it, and what chess.com team does - instead of trying to actually make changes based on the feedback, they try to gaslight everyone that the review is actually GOOD and people LIKE IT. This is just absurd.

There's no gaslighting going on. There are those that like the design and those that don't. A lot of changes the site makes have supporters, detractors, and those that don't care either way. Many people don't like change; the same thing happened when the site went to the v3 redesign as well.

There certainly are many members that don't like the Game Review changes, though to say it's overwhelming negative is probably not correct. The site did make somee changes based on feedback and the product is still has active development and modifications.

Most changes will likely be incremental and it's not likely the original format will come back.

I can say I tried to give feedback and engaged in a very long and deliberate and conscientious dialogue mostly off line with chess.com staff but found out that they were deeply philosophically commited to their own ideas of what was good and so it wasn't really much scope for incorporating feedback. They believe in their ideas. It is tough if your philosophy is closer to the old game review. Simple.

But I have to say I still deeply dislike the new game review. It makes me sad everytime I have to use it because it is so disfunctional - from my perspective. And mostly I just don't bother using game review anymore.