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Lichess Public announcement (feature request)

Where are the Official Lichess public announcement.
Every time Lichess makes a new adjustment to their site, people will find out by themselves. No announcement, no explanation, no nothing.

This link was closed, without an answer, because the question was asked so many times:
lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/follower-list
Why close a thread, claiming that there are multiple threads regarding the same topic?
Why not simultaneously copy/paste an official answer and then close it?

Does Lichess aspects people to read through 10 pages of topics, just to see if the question have already been asked and answered?
@NaturalBornTraveller i am with you. I am really angry cause i am not able to use emojis anymore. And the worst: NO explanation. Or where?? This is a freedom site. But things which make lichess a worse place for some people are hidden and not explained. Why
@matabichos26 said in #2:
> @NaturalBornTraveller i am with you. I am really angry cause i am not able to use emojis anymore. And the worst: NO explanation. Or where?? This is a freedom site. But things which make lichess a worse place for some people are hidden and not explained. Why

It’s still better than you-know-what.com.
The difficulty is knowing how broadly to announce something, how often and what to announce. Neither of which is obvious. For example, there might be daily commits too github.com/ornicar/lila/commits/master while daily announcement certainly sounds like too much.

Most of those commits are probably not worth announcing in a broad way either. For example "New Crowdin updates (#9847)" is a great update, but also maybe not that interesting for most users. It does get mention on the changelog thru lichess.org/changelog

Another factor is that sometimes things get a "soft" release. Like the new blog feature. Then over the next few days (or maybe weeks) the feature get's tweaked based on feedback. It might then be misleading or even worse, wrong, to have an announcement when something about the feature changes later. Sometimes, things even get completely reverted (github.com/ornicar/lila/pull/9825 )

Ultimately, the current way things are announced is approximately something like once a month, with the changelog update and Lichess forum post. (Often (always?) a tweet about it too. For some, this is not enough, and they are welcome to look at github commits, and chat in discord or the Lichess forum.

PS : To make it clear, you still do have a point thru. It's certainty unfortunate when a change is misunderstood and perhaps results in un-needed arguments. For example, Lichess removed the number of followers on profile pages and a commen interpretation seemed to be that followers got completely removed (or would be removed). While in practice, there was little functional change.

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