Yup. They don't care. They'll stick with this intern made hellish review instead of listening to their PAYING customers. Chess.com is done.
Game review changes are horrible
I deleted my last comment because I now see the problem. The DETAILS tab is missing this week, so I can't enter any info about the game or the players.
Details section is on the main analysis page now. You can click the Edit option to add the same information that was on the previous tab
then you have fifty mods with only one doing all the work
Mods are active in different ways and may focus on different parts of the site at different times. 60%+ mod activity is with things you may never see.
then you hire an army of dEvElOpers to make things worse on a constant and consistent basis instead of once and for all upgrading the servers
The site does upgrade, a lot
It's not 100% negative. Some of the design change is related to additional features coming I believe.
First move to balance some books is charge the freeloading Titled
Having titled players here draws other members to the site.
if you don't pay, you don't play
if you don't pay, you don't comment
enough of the free model
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That's never going to happen
@Martin: This design really does not make sense. How do two out of three tabs look and feel like tabs, and the third one ("Review") gets you to a completely different look-and-feel, which is a flip-screen (effectively for most users that is, even though the visual 'language' suggest a sequence) of two things that used to be accessible at once without switching, from neither of which the other two tabs are directly accessible. I hope this mere act of describing the UI shows how self-contradictory and unaccessible it is.
The community reaction is a direct result of this. Please listen to design principles, and the community, chess.com!
If all you see are the topics here, it certainly can look like 99%. I don't see everything but don't think it's nearly so drastic.
Previous site changes have looked similar in the forums (v2 to v3, Game Report to Game Review, etc)
This all is one hint, one more example of why mankind is doomed.
Money makers do pay a staff that is supposed to produce improvements. In order not to lose their jobs, that staff will keep proposing changes, that are supposed to be improvements, even if it'll ruin a perfect thing. Then, the deciders also need to prove their usefulness so they'll keep their jobs, hence will approve every now and then, changes that are no improvements at all. Cos it'll hide their uselessness once the product is so good it barely needs any changes.
And all that population of employees and workers care not about what it does to us, it cares only about keeping their jobs and maybe get promoted.
And so, the people that should hear our complaints, because they are those who could do something about it, have our complaints never reach their ears, cos well, them staff, under various excuses, won't let these complaints reach the ears of them deciders...
Them deciders could try yo see if something's wrong somewhere, but won't do so as long the flow of income is satisfying enough.
It's a system that does not have for a priority our content nor our satisfaction. Or only so in case it's directly linked to the flow of income.
I deleted my last comment because I now see the problem. The DETAILS tab is missing this week, so I can't enter any info about the game or the players.