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Regression of various features

Why does Lichess destroys its own features? For example:

1) Playing against players outside +- 500 rating range

2) Seeing on the analysis board the opening at every move - without clicking at the book

3) Solving puzzles in TOR browser

4) Playing ultra bullet against bots

5) Being able to resize the board anywhere, and not been forced to click the moving orange circles away

6) Seing on "current match score" the time control. It's also not possible anymore to see the time control at lichess.org/games
Number 2 is a great change. This I don't mind. Number 1 is being heavily debated right now and I'm mixed about it. Detractors have a point about the change and I'm not completely sold on it. Number 4 is a great new addition. I didn't know you could do this with bots so thanks for informing me about this one. I have no problems with number 5 and I like that ability. I'm confused about number six because I can still see the time control in the games.
@Curious1 you seem to misunderstand #1. This is the list if features which have been ruined by updates. Eg, it is not possible any more to resize the board anywhere.
I'm noticing your point about number one. Why did they make this change? I want the ability to change the board size and they take this away?!

Wait. I can't change the board size on the iPhone but I can still change the size of the board on my iPad. That's fine with me. I can deal. The iPhone is small enough to begin with so I'm okay with it on my iPhone 10xmax.
Nah it was just an example. The way your message #4 is phrased you seem to believe items numbered in post #1 are new features. Whilst it's the opposite: they used to be features, but they have been destroyed by recent updates.
According to this post the +/-500 range can be hacked by modifying directly the HTML lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/whose-stupid-idea-was-the-game-creation-and-selection-rating-change#10

Also since the new update a few players got to 3000+ in bitz and bullet in just a few games and I wouldn't be surprised they used the same teick to change theit rating deviation. Which seems to me a major yet elementary safety issue. So I am starting to question whether some dev got crazy and is sabotaging Lichess on purpose?
@tourdivoire I experimented with this loophole and it works to an extent, but not exactly right. Namely, these are the three games which I got after setting the range as -2000 to -750 (or maybe -550 in some cases, I don't remember):



Anyway, we shouldn't be forced to play around with HTML elements in order to get (sometimes) an opponent we seek, should we?
@tourdivoire yes, the ultra bullet icon should have stayed like it was. Though, that the bullet icon is actually a bullet and not a lightning (German: Blitz) is good.

@Curious1 When you see the match score of players, you see there the result. When you mouse over it you see the end of the match and: The result. Wow. Before, you would have seen there the time control, which makes more sense.

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