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Welcome 2Lichess V2!

*thumbs up* super happy with the new puzzles interface. Makes me want to practice more.
The new Puzzles are good, but there is one thing that annoys me. In order to see the next puzzle, I always have to judge about the last puzzle with a 'thumb up' or 'thump down' button. I don't like that, because most of the Puzzles are neither especially interesting nor especially boring.
If it's fine then upvote it, it's an "it's fine" button not a "this was amazing" button. Similarly if you think a puzzle is wrong or bad or computerish, downvote.
URL must change with the puzzle so it is persistent as it was on the old version. The site became unusable to me. It really caters to people quickly solving puzzles (often though dumb memorization) in a puzzle rush style.

If I want to pick harder puzzles and spend time solving them, then a page refresh will give me a new puzzle. Now I have to click on the permanent link for every puzzle. And if you were in the middle of a good puzzle and the page refreshed, oh well, it is lost.

Plus I used to solve them on the computer and on the mobile at the same time. Now it is impossible, since I get different puzzles on two platforms.
Thanks to the developers for the new features and to the entire community for the games from which they extract the puzzles !
I can't say enough about how much I LOVE lichess and how wonderful I think that the site is. So please take this in the spirit of constructive criticism of the Puzzles V2. I've been tracking my individual progress on a spreadsheet for almost 2,000 puzzles so I have a small database of how the previous version of Puzzles was feeding me puzzles which also allows for some comparison. A couple of quick thoughts.

1) I would appreciate a third option in between the thumbs up or down, maybe a "shrug" option: often the puzzle isn't really a "good" or "bad" puzzle, it just is, it's part of the learning process.
2) Generally the puzzles seem easier and the ratings of the puzzles seem higher than the old system;
3) I like being able to see the score at the bottom, it's partly how I track my own data, the V2 puzzles only have a green or red box indicating success or failure without showing the points won/lost: any chance of bringing back the points?
4) Seeing the points won or lost on a given puzzle is also helpful for tracking. That score disappears, though, if you spend some time on the board looking at the different options and using Stockfish to understand it. Could the points won/lost continue to show until you move to the next puzzle?

Thanks again for the great site!!
Also, with the ability to essentially pick puzzles you like, does not it mean an infinite possibility to grind the rating up?

Puzzle rating is meaningless in this case.

Puzzle rating for the new puzzles is indeed all wrong, but hopefully this will change as more of them getting solved by more people. In the mean time - easy rating points. The problem is, I'm not going for the rating points, so yes, with this change it completely screwed up the tracking of the progress.
This new puzzle thing is so cool!
Keep up the good work :D
I really like the new puzzle feature! Thank's for the good work!

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