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Some suggestions (from a new member)

Hello, new member here. I am really impressed with the site. The competitors, commercial (!) or not, are miles behind. The interface is a masterpiece and when I discovered Chess Insights I almost passed out from excitement.

Here are a few suggestions that would make the site reach complete perfection to my eyes:

1. Add the ability to promote/remove variations, both in analysis board and in studies. I feel this is really important to have.

The rest are minor details:

2. Include the openings training under the "LEARN" menu, instead of hiding it in 'Chess basics'. It's such an awesome feature!
3. I really like the "Good move. But you can do better" message in tactics training. I'd like to see it more, for example when missing a mate in one and going for a mate in two instead.
4. Make the move times graph more accurate. I assume the move times are recorded correctly, but the graph can depict move times only up to 60 seconds, which makes it rather useless for classical 25+10, as an example.

Apologies if these have been suggested before. Thanks for this awesome site!
1. This is possible by rightclicking on the varation. Unfortunately, you can only remove or promote to main line, not promote to the subvariation the variation was in.
2. This was the case before, I don't know why it was changed.
3. Tactics are being redone, so don't worry too much about them.
4. They are inaccurate due to storage space on the lichess database servers.

Hope this helped.
I could not right-click the variations and I've figured out the reason: I'm using Firefox with an add-on called FireGestures, which I've set to work with holding right-click (you hold right-click and make a gesture with the mouse to close tabs etc). While right-clicking on the board worked fine (drawing arrows), right-clicking on variations got completely bugged.

Hopefully I can figure out a workaround as well :)
#4 thanks for the suggestion, I eventually solved the issue by replacing FireGestures with another add-on (called Mouse Gestures Suite, in case anyone else stumbles on this problem).

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