Lichess v2 is here

Although I understand the idea behind new look, there is a big issue with new font weights. Clearly no design advice you had doing new version. Looks more like a developer choice.

You said previous fonts was tiny, but now, event when they are bigger, because of thiner font weight people with eyes disabilities (or basically any older person), have a lot of troubles using the new site.

For me, using current version for more than 15-20 minutes results in head pain, so I need to leave. This is big issue for me :( I need to focus really hard to keep with a clocks and reading other content on the site :/

Sad.

Apart from this, it's really good change.

Poll here:
www.strawpoll.me/17940872/r

So far:

@dstark I did try to let others notice it before you even saw it 😉 "back to the future"
page 9, #89

A complete rewrite of code is a ton of work, thumbs up for that.

I personally have no problems with v2 because I understand the concept of zooming (everything looks almost the same as v1 on 80%). But I also understand that looking at the new site is confusing at first because the default zoom is now adjusted for mobiles (which most people don't use Lichess from I guess).

Give it a few days and the outcry will likely fade.

@ people with that poll: The poll is useless because it's non-representative. Don't get worked up too much about it.

V1 is history, V2 is here tostay.... it may take some time to adjust, but it looks promising. Let's make it better together 👌

This is ridicilous, no pieces on the board. Get real LIchess!

Hi lichess,

I like the new design and I don't understand people complaining about the size. I'm mainly playing on a large screen and after resizing the website to 80% and increasing the chessboard a bit it just looks like V1 (but better!).

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@thechessguy2_0
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Precisely because a huge number of potential players from India, Brazil, China and other developing countries could have been attracted by the old version, I supported the survey. Or is this a new version to raise sales of "new devices" and gadgets? The entire Internet in recent years has suffered from "improvements." Hipster designers break any site. Everything is done to entertain people better, not paying attention if they get new knowledge from it or not. I understand when this happens on the part of megacorporations - Google can unilaterally change any of its services, Tumblr himself suddenly decides that your own photos are “erotic”, Twitter does not ban for calls for murder, but ban for gender expressions, etc. In recent months, Github has been cleared of many open source projects. It happens everywhere and everywhere - in order to sell you more gadgets, then applications, then updates, then you will be hacked or a malware will come ...
All this is done by children who want large screens and pretentious fonts. Do you think in developing countries so many people want the latest Win 10 with a minimum of 32 GB per system? Or the last Chrome requiring 2..3 ... 6..8 GB of RAM? Social blogs are dead, left messengers and androids so you can post only "Uh" and "Ups". I use android only as a book reader…
I know that everything will end one day. I believe that the developers will gradually find a balance. But the old version suited absolutely everyone.
Find information about bughousetest.com and if enough people want to support him again. The creator of the project simply could not support alone. There was everything on the old lichess and the best and fastest implementation Bughouse chess.

The old version didn't suit everyone. I couldn't play on mobile browser. Most people couldn't play on that. A lot of people use mobile phones now a days more so than computers.