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Zen-mode has changed

Please return to zen mode as it was before!
After the game, I want to know who I played with and the rating change!
Press z on your keyboard to see the info, then press z again to turn zen mode back on
Honestly I think this way is much better. I don't need to worry about rating change after the game either. I can just move on to playing a new game.
FWIW I too find it better this way. Just impossible to please everybody at once.. but pressing z twice at the end of the game is tolerable I think
It really was better before. Not only do I like to see the rating once it's over without having to press a button, but when I start a new game under a new time control it's not zen by default so not only do I have to press the button again to get back in zen mode, but I have a chance at seeing my opponent's rating.
I play only classical time controls. Sometimes when I have achieved a clearly winning position I am left wondering if my opponent is doggedly searching for a very clever move, or has just walked away leaving me to wait for time to run out.

A minor advantage to the old way is that it makes a bigger change in the screen when the opponent resigns, getting my attention if I am looking at other stuff while I wait.

Not a big deal.
I can cope.
Thank you for your support. :)
It's clearly better as it is now since you now have the choice. Before, it wasn't possible if you didn't ever want to see anything. Now, that's the default, and if you still want to see it, you can just quickly press z two times. Since some people evidently prefer it as it is now, this is the only way to please everybody as much as possible.

And if you really want to get it back to how it was before, there's always the option to write a user-script to do this.
I hate it. Before was just the right amount of information post-game. The z trick is fine but it's not the same. And maybe a little warning, lichess? I had to try it in a few browsers before I realized it wasn't a glitch.
@jmmayer
It was mentioned in the changelog:
lichess.org/changelog

Perhaps you can scan that changelog and describe exactly how that level of work could be presented to the users in a way which is both easy to understand and doesn't require developers to spend time writing boring documentation.
Well, I didn't know about the change log... so maybe making its existence known. Otherwise that seems fine.

I still don't like the change: it's not sufficiently clear when an opponent has resigned.

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