First of all, thank you for this new feature! I help run a chess school that primarily uses Lichess, and tested out Puzzle Racer with some students today. They loved it! This seems like it could be an incredibly useful and fun feature.
However, the system is a bit rough around the edges (as one would expect in Beta) for use with groups of kids. Not all kids are technologically proficient enough to copy paste links, for example. Further, asking a young student to click a link and NOT instantly click the blue "join" button (putting every other student on a 10 second timer to do the same) is asking a lot. Even more so if there are 5+ of them that all need to do this.
In other words, this feature would be an even better teaching tool if two issues were solved:
1) Make inviting players possible solely through the Lichess website. Either making it possible to highlight these on your team page or to invite players by username would both solve this.
2) Make it possible for the host to choose when the game starts (like in a simul) OR to set a specific time for the game to start (though with how short these are this would be a bit clunky).
I'm sure there are many other solutions to these two issues that I have not thought of as well.
I hope Lichess considers these additions!
Regardless, this is already a wonderful feature and I'm extremely thankful to see it added. Thank you!
However, the system is a bit rough around the edges (as one would expect in Beta) for use with groups of kids. Not all kids are technologically proficient enough to copy paste links, for example. Further, asking a young student to click a link and NOT instantly click the blue "join" button (putting every other student on a 10 second timer to do the same) is asking a lot. Even more so if there are 5+ of them that all need to do this.
In other words, this feature would be an even better teaching tool if two issues were solved:
1) Make inviting players possible solely through the Lichess website. Either making it possible to highlight these on your team page or to invite players by username would both solve this.
2) Make it possible for the host to choose when the game starts (like in a simul) OR to set a specific time for the game to start (though with how short these are this would be a bit clunky).
I'm sure there are many other solutions to these two issues that I have not thought of as well.
I hope Lichess considers these additions!
Regardless, this is already a wonderful feature and I'm extremely thankful to see it added. Thank you!