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Re:Why teens are suddenly obsessed with chess by stavros on Monday May 01, 2023 @04:53AM (#35770471)
Lichess is amazing, I play there exclusively. However, I am plagued by a terrible bug: the Android app has half a second of lag when opening any screen for some reason.

It doesn't matter what connection I'm on, and the website is always instant, but the Android app always takes half a second to load any screen. It's infuriating when you want to view the analysis, or just navigate around the app.

Re:Why teens are suddenly obsessed with chess by prollings on Monday May 01, 2023 @05:07AM (#35770534)
I've taken to "installing" the webapp version on my phone. It's only a little bit different, but doesn't come with the frustrating issues the android app does.
Re:Why teens are suddenly obsessed with chess by stavros on Monday May 01, 2023 @05:08AM (#35770538)
I've tried, but the analysis UI is different enough to be a bit more frustrating :(
Re:Why teens are suddenly obsessed with chess by stefncb on Monday May 01, 2023 @05:24AM (#35770642)
Weird, it's always worked perfectly for me. Now that I think about it I haven't updated in a long time, and after this I probably won't.
Re:Why teens are suddenly obsessed with chess by stavros on Monday May 01, 2023 @05:37AM (#35770702)
I think it may be something about my phone, but who knows. Everything else works fine.
Re:Why teens are suddenly obsessed with chess by ByThyGrace on Monday May 01, 2023 @10:14AM (#35773046)
I have a similar delay bug with the website itself. I've not reported it because I don't use my lichess account to play actual games, only puzzles. The lichess boards will only let you post a new thread if you have games on your history, and I refuse to comply as I've played thousands of puzzles and I should have clearance, and yes that's petty, anyway...

My bug is about Puzzle Storm. When you run out of time, the GUI shows you the post game screen and it takes a fraction of a second before it pops in a "daily record" banner. This fraction of a second is slow enough for me to drag my mouse cursor over the "Failed puzzles" filter, but fast enough for me to accidentally click "Play again" as it has been pushed down the page (by the daily record div) without me perceiving it yet. Once clicked, that button resets the page to start another puzzle storm and by then I've lost the failed puzzle history, so I can't go over it anymore.

It has happened already in the hundreds of times. I can't help it, hopefully the dev one day figures it out.

Re:Why teens are suddenly obsessed with chess by TechBro8615 on Monday May 01, 2023 @12:19PM (#35775016)
Have you tried disabling content blockers (including PiHole if you're in the app)? I'm not on Android, and haven't seen this but in Lichess, but when I see similar bugs on iOS, disabling content blockers often fixes them.
Re:Why teens are suddenly obsessed with chess by stavros on Monday May 01, 2023 @12:30PM (#35775193)
I don't have any enabled :( I'll see if I have some weird DNS setting or something, thank you.