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Study[beta] feedbacks

I. username on variation comment
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When a contributor or host of the study make or entered a text comment of the position, the username of the one that makes a comment is shown in the interface, and that is good.

However when a user only entered a move variation line or a move, the username will not appear. As a result it is difficult to know who suggested the variation or move.

I would suggest to also show in the interface the username for variation comment.

II. PGN export suggestions
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Example when pgn is exported or downloaded.

A. When user does not make a text comment and only make a variation comment.
1. e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 (2...Nf6 3.Nxe5 $14 {>>Duropo}) 3.Bb5 a6 ...

B. When user does make a text comment and a variation comment.
1. e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 (2...Nf6 3.Nxe5 {White is a little bit aggressive here. >>Duropo}) 3.Bb5 a6 ...

C. When user only makes a text comment.
1. e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 {This is a fine defense to Nf3. >>Duropo} 3.Bb5 a6 ...

D. Two users, text comment and variation comment.
1. e4 e5 {Don't like that, I like sicilian. >>Kasp} 2.Nf3 Nc6 (2...Nf6 3.Nxe5 {>>Duropo}) 3.Bb5 a6 ...

When you create a new chapter using EDIT tab - "Start from custom position" you cannot setup an on-hand piece that is when variant is crazyhouse.
When creating or editing chapters, some texts also appear in the chat room. I would like to suggest to disable such behavior as the chat room is for chatting.
Unless I'm mistaken there is no "promote variation" possibility, only promote to main line. When I'm analysing many sub-variations it'd be nice to have a promote one level button in order to keep things neat and tidy. Other than that, great stuff.
#4 I have the same problem, the solution is to promote to main the sub-variation that you want to be first and then promote to main the move that have played at the game. The same logic as chessbase.
Study has been extremely useful for me so far! I’ll list below some adjustments I think would be helpful. I apologize if any of these are already implemented and I simply didn’t realize.

1. There doesn't seem to be an option to share a link to a specific chapter of a study. This would be helpful for me in a variety of use cases. For example, if I want to discuss a specific game with an opponent from my study that analyzes my games. Or if I want to discuss a specific opening line with someone from an opening repertoire.

2. A “visible to anyone with link” privacy option would also be useful—similar to the privacy options for dropbox. It would also be useful if this worked on both a study and chapter level. One potential use case would be to publicly post a specific chapter of my study so that others can learn from it. In this way, I don’t have to change any visibility settings but I can keep the rest of the chapters private.

3. It would also be helpful to allow others to comment on your study but not edit the lines. If I share analysis of one of my games somewhere, then other users could provide feedback to me like this. In another scenario, someone could share analysis with a number of people and those people could ask questions in the comments.

4. There doesn't seem to be a way to flip the orientation of a chapter once it's created. Multiple times I forgot to choose the correct orientation when creating a chapter and had to delete and recreate the chapter as a result.
One last suggestion that I thought might be interesting is that when viewing the analysis board for a game, there could be a list of public study chapters where the game has been imported and analyzed. This would make it less difficult for to locate the analysis of specific games. It would also be interesting when viewing master games to see how others analyzed a game. This feature could be implemented as another tab in the computer analysis/move times/etc window.
The study feature looks amazing for chess coaches and their existing students. I'd love to see it also support live public studies led strong contributors that can communicate with their guests. Something like the following scenario:

A Lichess-approved Contributor hosts a public study session linked on the homepage. Some uninvited guests join. The main Contributor could add a few trusted friends as contributors to help moderate. The Contributor publicly goes through a commented game, opening, endgame technique etc. The Contributor has 3 chat settings to toggle between at any time:
(1) Invite-only - This existing study chat setting. Only invited members and contributors can comment though uninvited guests can read the comments.
(2) Hidden - Non-anonymous guests can comment but only the contributors can read their comments. This allows guests to ask or answer questions without seeing the other answers or cluttering the chat for other observers.
(3) Public - All non-Anonymous guests can comment. This might be chaotic if the session is large, but contributors can switch the chat to Hidden or Invite-only at any time and ban guests if they are disruptive.

These extra chat toggles would let the Contributor explain something, briefly open the chat up to guests for questions, then shut if back off to post answers and run through explanations on the board without a cluttered chat window.
Provide an easy way to copy the fen of the current board position. This would allow quick chapter creation via fen method.
When exporting pgn, add result header.

[Result "*"]

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