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brabo_hf

https://www.davidsmerdon.com/?p=2133

https://schaken-brabo.blogspot.com/2024/07/de-sterktelijst-deel-3.html

The chess.com viewer suddenly stopped working on external blogs with the embedded code. I hope it can be fixed as I am using this service a lot.

justbefair
brabo_hf wrote:

https://www.davidsmerdon.com/?p=2133

https://schaken-brabo.blogspot.com/2024/07/de-sterktelijst-deel-3.html

The chess.com viewer suddenly stopped working on external blogs with the embedded code. I hope it can be fixed as I am using this service a lot.

You should use the bug reporting tool to let the developers know.

brabo_hf

Thanks I've reported it yesterday via the tool. I hope it is just a maintenance update and not something permanent so waiting for their feedback.

brabo_hf

Back online, thanks !

brabo_hf

The viewer is again offline for some days. It would be nice if somebody can share what is going on.

brabo_hf

The viewer is not giving a proper display of the board. That is ongoing for several days already.

That is the third time in one month that visitors can't for several days/ week read my blogarticles.

I am considering to move more than 1000 games to another viewer despite it will be a time-consuming and painstaking process. Anyway thanks for the work as it is afterall a free service.

justbefair
brabo_hf wrote:

The viewer is not giving a proper display of the board. That is ongoing for several days already.

That is the third time in one month that visitors can't for several days/ week read my blogarticles.

I am considering to move more than 1000 games to another viewer despite it will be a time-consuming and painstaking process. Anyway thanks for the work as it is afterall a free service.

Do they display properly if you use a Chess.com blog?

I am just curious if some change made by chess.com broke lots of blogs hosted by Chess.com.

brabo_hf
justbefair schreef:
brabo_hf wrote:

The viewer is not giving a proper display of the board. That is ongoing for several days already.

That is the third time in one month that visitors can't for several days/ week read my blogarticles.

I am considering to move more than 1000 games to another viewer despite it will be a time-consuming and painstaking process. Anyway thanks for the work as it is afterall a free service.

Do they display properly if you use a Chess.com blog?

I am just curious if some change made by chess.com broke lots of blogs hosted by Chess.com.

Yes using the chess.com blog is working fine. So it could be that the decision was made to stop supporting non chess.com blogs. This hasn't been announced anywhere but such negative messages are not always publicly done as it generates bad publicity.

brabo_hf

No change, still not working in an acceptable format. Chessbase, Chesstempo, Lichess have a working alternative. Which one is best and do you know others?

brabo_hf

The viewer was 1,5 months working fine but now already 2 weeks broken again. This time moves and annotations disappear. I guess very few people use this great tool as such regular long failures would otherwise be much quicker noticed.