trysts wrote
Lol, I when I checked it out I thought I was stuck there too! I was freaking out, it was embarrassing
i haven't looked at alternatives yet, but I will if v3 is the only option. it's nowhere near as good as the current format.
Please chess.com, change V3
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Agreed. V2 is my favourite, and I like change:)
no photos in v3. Big mistake.
Huge mistake! It's not like words can capture everything. Photos are a must;)
No photos?
People have precious photographs that will disappear in the new version.
14 million members were attracted to V2
what do you guys mean - no photos? I just took V3 for a spin, seems a little cramped to me but the picture side is the same from here. Back on V2 by the way.
trysts wrote:
14 million members were attracted to V2
yay
They mean no photo albums.
Also, most people were attracted to the site's features, and I would guess the majority to the chess related ones.
The design has changed at least one other time since I have been here and some features have went away. Some people complained then too and the site kept growing. Very likely it will still grow after v2 goes away.
Martin_Stahl wrote:
I don't play Live a ton but when I have used premove I haven't seen that symptom. What browser are you using?
Hi Martin, I'm using Google Chrome
Is the premium memberships still growing?
i prefer both v2 and v3 equally.i just suggest to add all the advantages of v2 to v3.v3 is very good and beats v2 still now
The only thing I didn't like about v3 is that I couldn't find the resign button. Then I figured out where it was. Now I like v3.
Martin_Stahl wrote:
Because v2 code is a mess, hard to update or fix bugs.
(...)
v2 will go away.
Would you have made this admission while v2 was "latest and greatest"? I guess you wouldn't. Before v3 had arrived, v2 was being presented as "the greatest thing since sliced bread", and now that v3 is around, v2 suddenly "is horrible and must go". This is especially paradoxical given that if v2 has changed over the years, then I guess it was for the better (added features and fixed bugs) rather than for the worse.
Generally speaking, staff replies in this thread tend to remind me a bit of Microsoft staff desperately defending products such as Vista or Windows 8, insisting how everyone and their grandma AND her dog are obviously(?) loving it, while those who are unhappy supposedly represent an irrelevant fringe of the total userbase.
jaaas wrote:
Martin_Stahl wrote:
Because v2 code is a mess, hard to update or fix bugs.
(...)
v2 will go away.
Would you have made this admission while v2 was "latest and greatest"? I guess you wouldn't. Before v3 had arrived, v2 was being presented as "the greatest thing since sliced bread", and now that v3 is around, v2 suddenly "is horrible and must go". This is especially paradoxical given that if v2 has changed over the years, then I guess it was for the better (added features and fixed bugs) rather than for the worse.
Generally speaking, staff replies in this thread tend to remind me a bit of Microsoft staff desperately defending products such as Vista or Windows 8, insisting how everyone and their grandma AND her dog are obviously(?) loving it, while those who are unhappy supposedly represent an irrelevant fringe of the total userbase.
Would I have made that suggestion? No. But then I'm not staff and not aware of how hard it was to work on the code or how hard it was to implement new features within that code.
I just posted a summary of previous posts I have seen on the forums by erik. I do know that work on v3 has been going on for a number of years, at least shortly after the time that the last major update on the visual design was completed. Though I would have to dig into topics to find the first time work on it was mentioned.
The v3 group was opened almost 2 years ago and at that time much of the site was up and working, though with quite a few bugs, so development appeared to have been going on for time prior to that.
Found one early mention. In April of 2015 it was mentioned that v3 work had been going on for the past 2 years at that point.
https://www.chess.com/blog/webmaster/whats-new-at-chesscom
or rather I won't. how can it take so long to implement? it's a great site as it is, and if you change it, it will be rubbish. i've had a look at v3 and once i thought i was stuck there. thank christ I wasn't
Lol, when I checked it out I thought I was stuck there too! I was freaking out, it was embarrassing