Scheduled outage 2014-06-30

A scheduled outage will be taking place early GMT on the 2014-06-30.

The exact length of this outage cannot be determined right now, but anticipate anything up to four hours.

The timing of this outage means the majority of users will be unaffected, but a timeout suspension will be introduced for 24 hours as precaution.

Although not a feature update, a new release will be made that provides:

- Better support for languages other than English (UI remains only in English though).
- Slightly modified game analysis page, improving the UI.
- Other minor tweaks.

A new Android app (0.2.2c) will be available on the same day, again, to provide better support for languages other than English and minor bug fixes.

This work completed successfully.

A timeout suspension will remains in place for at least 24hours.

Android app update will hit the play store later today.

Thanks Russ, the improvements keep impressing me!

But about the "slightly modified game analysis page", I do have some difficulties with it. Not sure if I should post them here so feel free to move it.

1. navigating back and forward between moves does not seem very intuitive anymore. Yes, you can see the moves now listed but pieces are not indicated . Also castling is displayed very odd (was already not perfect in the old UI).

2. more troublesome, the "reset" button reloads the whole page, with some delay at times. Since I use that button a lot, this is not an improvement.

Hope at least #2 can be fixed!

I have had some other feedback regarding similar issues too. As the game analysis page was not the primary reason for this update, it didn't get a beta period like I originally intended. I'll be addressing concerns now it is live though, so don't consider it "as is" forever more.

What are the times for the suspension? I have one opponent who is listed as timing out but I cannot take a win. Does the extension not stop the timeout feature completely?

Ah, it's now drag and drop, not click to move. Got it.

Originally posted by sbacat
Ah, it's now drag and drop, not click to move. Got it.

Click to move should still function on game analysis.

Originally posted by Russ
Click to move should still function on game analysis.

Nail on the head there. This is the cause of my issues. It is now drag and drop. Click and move no longer functions.

Timeouts now reinstated.

Originally posted by Sicilian Sausage
Nail on the head there. This is the cause of my issues. It is now drag and drop. Click and move no longer functions.

The cause has been identified. With move sounds off, this issue occurs. A fix will be incoming shortly.

This is now fixed, follow up comments in the help forum please where a thread exists for this issue too.