This should be turned off by default.
This feature is not useful but is extremely annoying and a big distraction to anyone who already knows how chess pieces work- which would be 99.999% of your site visitors. Aesthetically, it makes the board look like it has some kind of contagious disease :P
True, you can turn this off in your account settings, but for those times you wish to play without being logged in (for myself when I"m feeling tired and like I'll loose) there doesn't seem to be any way to turn it off as anonymous. This is probably even costing you new users because first impressions count, and if the first impression is one of a chess site with annoying and unsightly features that there is no apparent way to disable they might not stick around long enough to create an account and realize that when you have an account you can disable it.
This is an awesome chess site, in my opinion the best, and I want to see it grow and get even better and that's why I'm providing this constructive feedback, thanks.
This feature is not useful but is extremely annoying and a big distraction to anyone who already knows how chess pieces work- which would be 99.999% of your site visitors. Aesthetically, it makes the board look like it has some kind of contagious disease :P
True, you can turn this off in your account settings, but for those times you wish to play without being logged in (for myself when I"m feeling tired and like I'll loose) there doesn't seem to be any way to turn it off as anonymous. This is probably even costing you new users because first impressions count, and if the first impression is one of a chess site with annoying and unsightly features that there is no apparent way to disable they might not stick around long enough to create an account and realize that when you have an account you can disable it.
This is an awesome chess site, in my opinion the best, and I want to see it grow and get even better and that's why I'm providing this constructive feedback, thanks.