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Hello,
I have been using the site for maybe a year or so now and I have been really enjoying my time on the site although I have recently began to become slightly frustrated at one aspect in particular. I have found that while playing a game socialising is possible using the chat window but it is tedious to scroll down to the chat window each time you wish to look at what other players may be saying. Obviously this sounds like a very lazy problem on my part and it is but I do believe it gives the chance to think about certain aspects of personalisation within a website which is one of the reasons why people flock to certain sites more than others. If you think that a site offers you a way to open itself up to making it look the way you in-vision it to look then it automatically becomes more appealing.

I feel that if this site offered its members to personalise certain aspects it would become even more successful than it already is. Maybe a simple way of moving objects around within a window? For example to have the chat box directly beside the map, or even possibly a way to give yourself an avatar for games instead of just a rank.

Many of you may not agree with me but I felt I may as well give an input.

Yeah, for those of us with large wide monitors it certainly would be nice to be able to move everything on the bottom over to the right of the map.

We do take your suggestion seriously but you must know that we have a long to do list and we would rather spend our time adding other features first.

I will add this to the list but because the owners can't yet afford a full time programmer (Buy Premium!) it will be quite awhile before any work on it is done.

just regarding chat. now that we have cool notification system. it would be cool to send maybe a preset 'hi' type of notification to someone you see very recent online, with maybe a reply "hi" to click on. Sometimes I wanna say just hi. Friendly social stuff. I can see where it would be useful when you play with regular pairs partners. where you might want to get their attention, and discuss tactics as you are taking your (long term) turn, while they might briefly be on..or just wanna be friendly and greet them without having to visit their game and chatting there or start up a create a private message.

Like a facebook poke? That leaves notifications open for spamming (of course, we can disable it in the settings).

If I had a vote I'd vote no to that suggestion. Unless it comes with the option to be disabled, and comes disabled as default.

If it comes, it will not be disabled by default. Maybe enabled friends only by default, but not full off.

Not sure if it comes though.

Enabled only for friends by default would work too. Just so that you can't be spammed with poke notifications.

Though it still doesn't sound to me like a feature that's needed.

Hi.

I agree with Netrot regarding the chatbox.