Hmm. Maybe because the devices work differently.
Settings are not carried across devices
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tilted_horse wrote:
After spending sometime customizing many settings on my PC, for my surprise none of that is carried to another device. Went to iPad and everything was set to default. Same if you try to use it in another computer. What's the point of having settings per device?
PCs have different capabilities and features than mobile devices and visual and game play settings on one may not be the best on the other.
However, settings across computers are all the same, with exceptions of ones that are cookie based.
justbefair wrote:
Hmm. Maybe because the devices work differently.
Same thing even on 2 different Logins on the same computer. I think they save the settings in the browser in the frontend or something like that. I have 2 windows login in the same computer and every time I change something in one login I have to do the same in the other login.
Martin_Stahl wrote:
tilted_horse wrote:
After spending sometime customizing many settings on my PC, for my surprise none of that is carried to another device. Went to iPad and everything was set to default. Same if you try to use it in another computer. What's the point of having settings per device?
PCs have different capabilities and features than mobile devices and visual and game play settings on one may not be the best on the other.
However, settings across computers are all the same, with exceptions of ones that are cookie based.
Even with basic settings, like pieces and board color. Even that is not consistent on multiple computers/devices. It looks more like a system limitation or bug then anything else.
tilted_horse wrote:
Same thing even on 2 different Logins on the same computer. I think they save the settings in the browser in the frontend or something like that. I have 2 windows login in the same computer and every time I change something in one login I have to do the same in the other login.
On a browser, the settings are going to be account bound, with the exception of cookie based ones. So things like background, piece and board set will be the same on every web browser and device. The only other exception is if there's a problem reading the settings from the database.
tilted_horse wrote:
Martin_Stahl wrote:
tilted_horse wrote:
After spending sometime customizing many settings on my PC, for my surprise none of that is carried to another device. Went to iPad and everything was set to default. Same if you try to use it in another computer. What's the point of having settings per device?
PCs have different capabilities and features than mobile devices and visual and game play settings on one may not be the best on the other.
However, settings across computers are all the same, with exceptions of ones that are cookie based.
Even with basic settings, like pieces and board color. Even that is not consistent on multiple computers/devices. It looks more like a system limitation or bug then anything else.
They are the same. I work across multiple browsers and devices with no issues seeing the same settings.
Martin_Stahl wrote:
tilted_horse wrote:
Same thing even on 2 different Logins on the same computer. I think they save the settings in the browser in the frontend or something like that. I have 2 windows login in the same computer and every time I change something in one login I have to do the same in the other login.
On a browser, the settings are going to be account bound, with the exception of cookie based ones. So things like background, piece and board set will be the same on every web browser and device. The only other exception is if there's a problem reading the settings from the database.
On my iPad I see green board, on windows account 1 I see white/black board, on windows account 2 I see blue/white board. All different.
If you log into the same account on the website on each devices they will be the same unless one of your devices has issues loading the settings and it will load the site default. I use multiple devices and the settings are the same in each
Martin_Stahl wrote:
If you log into the same account on the website on each devices they will be the same unless one of your devices has issues loading the settings and it will load the site default. I use multiple devices and the settings are the same in each
I have just one chess.com account and it's the one I'm using to login into 3 different sources: Google Chrome on windows 1, Google Chrome on windows 2 and iPad.
If I open the website on incognito mode it loads correctly, if not it loads an old setup. Chess.com is clearly using something from the browser cache instead of using what is in the database. Since the settings was updated from another computer it thinks what it has on cache is the latest one which is not. A clear bug for me.
You can do the test your self. If you change the setting in just one computer, everyone will get it write. But if you change the settings on 3 different computers, all 3 will have it's own settings and it will ignore the latest change in the database.
After spending sometime customizing many settings on my PC, for my surprise none of that is carried to another device. Went to iPad and everything was set to default. Same if you try to use it in another computer. What's the point of having settings per device?