@mwmiller said
Is there a plan to update the FAQ section? I have found one thing that should be changed.

I recently recruited a new member for RHP, and explained to him that he needed to take a little time to think about what he wanted as a username, as it cannot be changed. He could change his email or password if he needed to, but the username could not be changed.

And then just ...[text shortened]... be updated by new users once within first 30 days. Subscribers can also update once every 365 days.

I've made a few quick edits to correct obviously incorrect information (such as account name changes) and added processes. (archiving games).

I've also added direct links to relevant settings pages. No idea why this was not always the case!

A full review is definitely required though.

@divegeester said

- Pages move side to side when dragged by my finger rather than being static within the screen. Actually game page in original does move but the forum thread listing page is fixed. I like the “fixed” feel, it is more substantive somehow. I hope this makes sense I’m probably using incorrect terms.

Can you re-review this please?

New update to the beta :

- Live chess play is available from the beta. (Some new code pushed to the RHP production site too, to enable this.)

-Browsing and searching live games is now available, similar in function to current production, but with infinite scroll instead.

-iOS specific rubber-band scrolling when page dragged prevented. So, on iPhones/iPad, the page should be locked to the screen size horizontally, without any further scrolling if dragged about once the page is fully loaded.

-Styling change - lists of label/values pairs changed from bolded labels to bolded values.

- DM's on mobile. Choosing a chat now closes the inbox/outbox list automatically.

@congruent

This was the case. All certs were very recently renewed before some time off - live chess never got the new cert. Apologies for the outage.

It was an expired certificate - my error, as the new cert wasn't pushed to live chess too. Now fixed! Sorry guys!

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Thanks again everyone who has had input so far.

The original intention was to close the beta for next week as no development will be taking place, but it appears relatively stable right now, so I will keep it up unless a serious issue occurs.

Outstanding raised issues have not been forgotten.

So do keep posting feedback here, but response time will be slower and issues will not be patched for at least a week.

For the future, once development resumes and remaining issues have been closed out, then a short open beta will commence prior to the full release.

@Ponderable said
I seem to be unable ot find the "send reminder" icon...

Automated reminders go out to non-moving players anyway, so this was dropped for this release.

The automated email are as follows :

"Don't lose on time! Time is nearly up in your game against John Doe"

"The clock is ticking....and you are about to lose on time!
Only 10 hours and 30 minutes remaining when this email was sent!"

This now has a fix, so the "My Performance" is even better than the current production implementation. Players with a large number of games will experience some slowness though - this is the most complex page by far for query performance.

@shannon

Fixed for everywhere this notice style appears.

@shannon said
One other thing I noticed missing is the little number indicator that appears on the browser tab(s) when someone's made a move. Super useful.!

This has now been reintroduced.

@moonbus said
4. The FEN generator allows only legal positions. Can you get it to allow illegal positions? This is sometimes useful for teaching purposes and puzzle solving.

Colored check marks now indicate legal / illegal.

@mwmiller said
Also, on the 'My Games' page, the 'All Games' main folder does not bring up a list of all games played by you. It just shows the games from your 'Inbox' sub-folder. (already posted this one a few days ago, so a reminder)

Thanks, I missed that. If no folder has been previously chosen, the default will be All Games now.

@mwmiller said
I just noticed on the beta that the 'game history' button is no longer there on the game board display page. Is that a bug, or intentional?

Both the missing My Games button and Game history buttons have been reintroduced. The game play board UI is getting a revisited at a later date (when the new board code is introduced) so whatever is chosen now will still be relatively temporary anyway.

@shannon said
This is the most nitpicky thing ever but...

On profiles where it lists User Id, Joined, Last Daily Move, Last Live Game, Vacation Remaining ... if the user has never played a live game the spacing between Last Live Game and Vacation is shorter than the spacing between the other items.

Actually caused by a missing value for when no move was made, so still relevant. Fixed.

@shannon removed their quoted post

This was a common problem elsewhere too with text overflowing when long messages sent.

Now fixed.