Feature request

I have a chess clock and there is this epic option for play; each player gets a minute and while one player is thinking the time that he takes is added to his opponents clock. (so each player starts with one minute, but after every move the time taken to think is added to opponents time) So you win when time is 2 min/ 0 min or after checkmate/draw/resign. It might need to be tweaked so that auto move still takes time... In any case, it's incredibly fun to play over a real board.

Hi condor, that's a good one, please take a look at http://en.lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/lichess-todo-popularity-bracket

How's the dev of the bracket going?

Clarkey, I have done all the preparations, I now only need more well-described suggestions of how lichess can be improved. I'll share the link to the bracket when we have 64 suggestions (with a +5 score) at lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/lichess-todo-popularity-bracket

Is it possible for users to publically submit suggestions to the bracket that you are making? If that's the case, I'd recommend you open the system earlier so users can submit ideas.

(the reason that there mightn't be many well described ideas is because there aren't many avenues to adequately describe them O.o )

Yes, everyone can publically submit suggestions to the bracket by getting +5 at lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/lichess-todo-popularity-bracket (I've explained it all there, if something isn't clear, please send me a private message).

I'll add the suggestions to the bracket myself and I'll share the link when we have enough suggestions to start voting on them. We might get too many bad ideas (I can only have 64 suggestions in the bracket, so that would leave some good ideas out of the bracket) if I add every idea to the bracket (without getting +5).

Hopefully more people will start describing suggestions (feature requests) and giving +1 to ideas they like at the above mentioned link.

I think that you'll be waiting a very long time to get +5 on 64 suggestions. That's like 320 votes, and I don't see a lot of activity in your forum post. It's not your fault that forum posts don't get a lot of attention, it's simply because lichess isn't particularly conducive to having long forum topics that last extended amounts of time that gain a significant amount of public attention where popular posts float to the top to gain public attention - this isn't reddit.

It would be better if you opened up a bracket where anyone could submit any idea and have other people easily vote on their suggestions without too much moderation (similar to facebook's voting polls where anyone can submit an option to be voted upon). Then other users could easily vote on ideas that they like, and good/popular ideas will quickly float to the top.

Clarkey, 320 votes sounds like much, but if 5 players vote on 64 suggestions then you also have 320 votes. A poll might be a better option than a bracket (it certainly is faster), but I'm trying to achieve quality decision making as a group so Thibault will know that the results of the bracket actually mean something (it's easy to choose your favorite color in a poll, but people will probably have difficulty comparing many extensive feature requests at the same time).

Just allow users to vote on multiple options. If there's lots of good ideas, there's no reason for a single user to put one option above the rest if they don't want to. Once everyone has voted, there'll still have to be a first second and third place.

They can vote on as many options as they want at lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/lichess-todo-popularity-bracket

The bracket helps to prioritize; there are many features many of us want, but which ones are most important to us?