Can you please explain what it means? I have been using HN for years and only seeing this for the first time. Seems like some mod action but searching on google didn't return anything.

I’ve seen dang do something similar before to clean up a thread of off topic comments.

Yes, very strange and I was wondering why my comment which is on topic was added here…

There are other comments which are clearly on-topic, e.g. direct feedback about the app, which have been relegated to this weird sub-thread.

If this is a new feature, I’m not a fan of it. We have downvotes for off-topicness.

great app, I like the adaptive style, but one piece of feedback is that, sometimes it is not clear what the goal is. For example, the language "Brilliant queen win ahead!" tells me, right, I am going to checkmate for the win with the queen in this game. But, actually the puzzle is to instead win the queen piece. "win" in chess to me always means checkmate.

Overall great app.

I will change the confusing wording like this but for now I can tell you this, if it mentions a piece by name then the puzzle is about winning that piece and not the game. Thank you for trying the app out.

Wait, are you saying that you have puzzles where the "winning" moves aren't the best moves? If so, that is not good.

Subtext is that the solution is always the best possible move sequence. OP’s comment is clarifying that sometimes after executing the best move sequence, the puzzle ends with a capture, and sometimes ends with a checkmate (“winning”).

No, the winning moves are always the best moves.

The goal is always the best move. You shouldn't think of "what is my goal?", you should be finding the best move. This is something I struggled with as a beginner. There is always a best move, find it. Don't search for "the goal".

Love the app! Would love it twice as much if you allowed me to turn off the sounds (it turns off any existing podcasts or music).

Thanks for the review, will add a toggle in the next update.

Have pushed the update, should be visible in a few days on app store.

Solo developer, no ads, no subscription. Take my money! And thanks for writing decent software.

Thank you for your kind words.

Can you tell us about the tech stack you used and why?

This is cool! Is there a chess board library that you used or did you have to built it from scratch?

I built the board from scratch but used the awesome chess.js library by Jeff Hlywa for move validation.

Thank you and God bless you my friend :)

Very cool!