If you wanted to prevent people making multiple accounts , you could have disabled followers feature after a limited no. Of followers, say 50 or 100 followers. But i dont think it was necessary to totally remove that feature. Lichess was best in its earlier days, but now it is getting worse after such updates. For eg, It is getting slower, removal of some features, ping is always high, etc
@Bad_bisop123 said in #81:
> If you wanted to prevent people making multiple accounts , you could have disabled followers feature after a limited no. Of followers, say 50 or 100 followers. But i dont think it was necessary to totally remove that feature. Lichess was best in its earlier days, but now it is getting worse after such updates. For eg, It is getting slower, removal of some features, ping is always high, etc
I agree
I really loved to see so many following me
> If you wanted to prevent people making multiple accounts , you could have disabled followers feature after a limited no. Of followers, say 50 or 100 followers. But i dont think it was necessary to totally remove that feature. Lichess was best in its earlier days, but now it is getting worse after such updates. For eg, It is getting slower, removal of some features, ping is always high, etc
I agree
I really loved to see so many following me
i hate this update.
The fundamental assumption here is that "followers count" is not as good an indicator of "social reputation" as "glicko rating" is for "chess strength".
Otherwise, the same philosophy can be applied to visible ratings, and there should be no leaderboards, no need to display other user's rating and so on. But people do follow other players based on their ratings in order to watch their games and learn from it, or even make social connections to improve together.
In any case, it makes sense to hide followers count and not the ratings because lichess is mainly for chess, not for building a fanbase.
Otherwise, the same philosophy can be applied to visible ratings, and there should be no leaderboards, no need to display other user's rating and so on. But people do follow other players based on their ratings in order to watch their games and learn from it, or even make social connections to improve together.
In any case, it makes sense to hide followers count and not the ratings because lichess is mainly for chess, not for building a fanbase.
I 100% support the idea to remove followers count numbers, however we need an option to disable timeline notifications from people we follow, someone i follow has been spamming my timeline with endless blog posts, i could solve the issue by unfollowing them but that means i wont see them online to view their games
@Bad_bisop123 said in #78:
> How can i see who is following me?? If some of my friends are new to lichess and they started following me, i should know that they also have started playing chess.
You can see it through your activity but if you don't after a week of active playing or posting it goes forever and you would never know if he followed you unless he tells you that.
> How can i see who is following me?? If some of my friends are new to lichess and they started following me, i should know that they also have started playing chess.
You can see it through your activity but if you don't after a week of active playing or posting it goes forever and you would never know if he followed you unless he tells you that.
Well of course there's a bifurcation in every issue (that's a 2 dollar word I got for 50 cents).
But anyway there were some good features in the old system in that I acquired some good friends because of it.i generally (not always) reserved my follows for people I honestly liked because of their intelligence, humanity or just their sense of humor and the fact that I found them interesting.In other words when I followed someone it was a compliment.
Unfortunately it somehow turned into collecting followers for the sake of collecting followers and honestly was not (lmho) not what it was intended to be.So overall I can understand the rationale behind the decision but I still kinda miss it
But anyway there were some good features in the old system in that I acquired some good friends because of it.i generally (not always) reserved my follows for people I honestly liked because of their intelligence, humanity or just their sense of humor and the fact that I found them interesting.In other words when I followed someone it was a compliment.
Unfortunately it somehow turned into collecting followers for the sake of collecting followers and honestly was not (lmho) not what it was intended to be.So overall I can understand the rationale behind the decision but I still kinda miss it
Dear @thibault, I heartily support any policy measures taken to prevent a nice site like this from turning into just another Facebook ...
Yet still, I wonder ...
For instance, are you at liberty to mention any research orgs who are consumers of Lichess' data products ?
Yet still, I wonder ...
For instance, are you at liberty to mention any research orgs who are consumers of Lichess' data products ?
Still, I feel like we should see the followers we have. Not for every players in here, just for my/his/her self.
I agree with you, about the problem with visual followers though.
In conclusion, it would be nice if we can see our followers, just him/her self. NOT EVERYONE.
I agree with you, about the problem with visual followers though.
In conclusion, it would be nice if we can see our followers, just him/her self. NOT EVERYONE.
Back please, subscribers Lichess :(
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