@moonbus said
Yes, and yes please.

An "Abdridged" option has been added on "My Games". I'm open to better name suggestions for the reduced "card" view.

@mwmiller

Now fixed. I may adopt the blue /gray colors of the direct messages for over the board messages at later date.

@mwmiller said
I'm still using a laptop running win7.
I don't usually care for 'dark mode' but decided today to try it in the beta.
In one of my games, my opponent sent an 'in game' text message, and in dark mode I way barely able to read it.
I composed a reply and it was fine as I put it together, but when I finished the message and made and sent it with my next move, my reply was also ...[text shortened]... re in the chat log.

So is this just a problem with the beta, or does it need further attention?

I'll take a look at that, and get a fix up.

Dark mode in general definitely needs some refining, but not enough to hold up the update.

Thanks for all the feedback so far. Many issues have been addressed since this process started.

Next week, once further testing of the clan code is complete, this beta will become an Open beta which I would encourage everyone to take a look at. (A post will go into Site announcements & General forum to promote this.)

Last minute Friday fix : FENs and PGNs reintroduced to chat messages again.

Another update (including some from yesterday)

The following have been fixed (edited from lead post)

- More button ('...' ) options sometimes not completely visible (e.g. My Home, Urgent games)
- Home page text contrast poor in dark mode.
- Board defaults too large causing layout issues (off screen, requiring a scroll.)
- Close buttons not visible in dark mode ('X' ).

I've been making some changes to tablet sized formatting (specifically when landscape) so iPad rendering should be a quite a bit better now.

@shannon said
I notice that in the 'Analyze Game' window the 'Reset All' button is missing in beta. I use this constantly so would be nice to have!

Fixed and will be uploaded within next couple of hours.

@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.