Chess.com Month In Review: February 2020
Hey, chess fans! It's that time again! Let's leap back to last month, and review what kept the Chess.com team busy in February 2020...
Puzzles
- Made some behind-the-scenes changes to help when broadcasting Puzzle Battle events.
- Also behind-the-scenes, we continued to work on the technology that we use to create high-quality puzzles based on positions in member games.
- Puzzle themes on the Learning tab are now listed in alphabetical order
- Made Puzzle Rush a little more responsive.
Other Stuff (Web)
- Continued work on new chessboards, including a (brief!) initial run in Beta that definitely shook out some good bugs!
- Spruced up the imagery for some of our Awards.
- Began work on a better-organized, better-looking Lessons index. Stay tuned!
- Updated board sounds (piece movement, draw offer, etc.). No radical changes—just higher-quality sounds!
- Look for "Related Lessons" coming to many of our Videos.
- In Settings, you can now select multiple content languages for viewing Articles, News, etc... and we also added a landing page setting so you can choose where you want to go as soon as you log in!
- Fixed a few bugs and made a few improvements to the site-wide Chat feature.
- Made tweaks and improvements to browser notifications & notification settings.
- Continued efforts on a new & improved Vs Computer feature.
- API work to support cloud-based game analysis via the Android and iOS apps.
- Searching through your games? You can now quickly clear/reset the search form!
- What's more, you will also see a count of the results in your current search...
- When doing Analysis, lines inserted will all include the estimated evaluation score, whether the analysis is cloud-based or local.
- We started logging wrong moves in Lessons so that we can go back and ensure the most "popular" all have specific, thoughtful & instructive commentary.
- Fixed a bug that prevented auto-follow (new comments) from working in Vote Chess.
- Lots of work on Club Chat.
- Added new custom emoji for Chat & Flair.
- Added support for multi-game PGNs in Analysis! You can add many games in a single PGN, and once you've done so, you can select any individual game from a menu that will appear at the top...
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Fair Play and Sportsmanship
- 80,147,320 games reviewed for fair play.
- 3,407,150 accounts reviewed for fair play.
- 8,042 accounts closed for fair play (including 15 titled players).
- 318,427 abuse reports received.
- 20,558 mute actions taken.
- 16,492 individual accounts muted.
- 27,420 accounts closed for abuse.
Member Support
- Average time to first response: 21 hrs, 6 mins
- Total support responses: 17,125.
- Average quality by member rating: 92 / 100.
- Total ratings: 1,962.
That's it! As always, thank you for your attention, your time, your bug reports, and your suggestions. Until next month!...
