Good summary! One thing I'd like to note, thought it's not what your article was mainly about:
>people I meet on- or offline tell me that lichess is to big for them, too many menus, too many possibilities
i don't think the amount of features or menus, are the problem. features are lovely, and the menus are pretty well organised with everything in its proper place.
i think the main page just really needs a visual overhaul. lots of fat to trim there. there's a bunch of redundancy:
... and a bunch of elements that are taking up much more space than they have any business to, or may not be relevant to a whole lot of people. Something like a toggle (show/hide element) option for individual elements would be great. Maybe with a bunch of features hidden by default to de-clutter the main page. Like so:
>people I meet on- or offline tell me that lichess is to big for them, too many menus, too many possibilities
i don't think the amount of features or menus, are the problem. features are lovely, and the menus are pretty well organised with everything in its proper place.
i think the main page just really needs a visual overhaul. lots of fat to trim there. there's a bunch of redundancy:
... and a bunch of elements that are taking up much more space than they have any business to, or may not be relevant to a whole lot of people. Something like a toggle (show/hide element) option for individual elements would be great. Maybe with a bunch of features hidden by default to de-clutter the main page. Like so:
