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Great additions

The ability to see the moves, scroll through them and rotate the board during the game are great additions to the interface.

These options are something that I wanted see since I joined the site but never made any post about them so I just wanted to thank the developers now.

It's great to see Lichess constantly developing and at the same time amazing to see that this is so free and accessible. To me it's amazing that something like this exists.
Being able to see the moves is great stuff indeed. Thanks
Agree - love the new move list - sometimes during a game I wonder how I missed a move, so like to scroll back right then so this is a great addition.
On that note, it is nice to stumble upon these new features, but is there a feature/release list that is being updated anywhere?
Quite useful when a game is in progress is observed. Thank you
Thanks guys! :)

As far as I'm concerned, the site is now almost perfect - the only feature I'm still really missing here is an easy-to-see record of highest rating ever achieved for the various time controls and variants. In most sites, the highest rating is supplied right next to the current rating, and it's very helpful in assessing your opponent's actual strength. :)
@Clarkey - have you considered a public trello board for dev? Much like trello themselves do it (trello.com/b/nC8QJJoZ/trello-development ) so the lichess team gets to add cards, but the community can upvote/add comments).

It is a nice public way of showing what is being worked on, getting feedback.... and all free (I use it for anything I am working on).

I mention this partly because I have some feature suggestions - they may already be in the works, they may have been suggested previously (and accepted/rejected). It would be nice to have a "feature suggestion" (or ideas as they call it) list on the board where lichess adds any ideas from the forum it likes, then the community can give feedback... hopefully which clarifies the idea until lichess either decides it is worth doing or not.

Not sure you would need to have separate lists for releases like they do, but the standard lists (ideas, bugs/issues, someday, working on, done) might work (also might even help the team coordinate in a kanban way... although if it is sensitive info, possibly best to take to a private board. For instance, has an API, so you could have a cheat checking board, where players are automatically added to "to be checked" list, then checked, "human follow up required" etc...)

Also can be linked directly to github (zapier.com/zapbook/github/trello/ ) which might be useful (your public trello board then tracks github changes)
I had a pretty long explanation as to why we wouldn't use something such as Trello. But I'll summarise and say:

Lichess is REALLY small. 1 core dev and a couple of dudes who ramble on about the future, optimisations, and occasionally get some real work done. ;)

If you want to join in the conversation, just hang around on the freenode irc channel #lichess.

I think you're alluding to an automated cheat detector. We've got one of those; pretty nifty one that Thibault and I worked on. Suffice to say it does what you mention.

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