please rollback the rating range change!

@Toadofsky Regardless of the final result, thank you for your willingness to help!

I have to admit I did not consider that "ease of maintaining the codebase" could be involved. If it turned out that Lichess cannot give us back our possibility to choose our opponents freely because it lacks the volunteer capacity to maintain the codebase then... well, it would be a strange situation. I think that we could reasonably expect at least an official Lichess blog post explaining what happened and why it had to happen, am I right?

#AbC

That sounds like an odd reason to me. Previously there was a minimum and a maximum threshold. After the change there is err... a minimum and maximum threshold, just one which chooses the options for you. :D

CHANGE IT BACK ALREADY!!!!

Who suggests these changes and who approves them?! What is wrong with these people?!

Lichess should be a place where players can play who they want to play. If two players want to play each other, why would lichess stop them? It's not in the spirit of lichess. Please change it back.

LIBRE chess (remember that part of lichess, please).

I'm in too. There is an endless list of reasonable arguments why this is not good (in casual games!!!!!), but please just undo that.

change: ok, sry I first thought it was +/- 50 but it is 500, so not that bad for me.

I have to take that back, although no restrictions would be still better since every play can choose freely.

Today I was in a lecture and I wanted to play a nice slow game of chess against an easy opponent to keep me focused. The chess game would help me stay awake and paying attention to the lecture, but I didn't want to spend too much brainpower on it because obviously I wanted to spend most of my attention taking notes and paying attention to the class. But I couldn't set the slider to challenge a lower rated opponent because it had disappeared, which made me very sad :(