New Lichess features Lishogi could adopt

Since the creation of Lishogi in 2020, Lichess has been implementing new good features that weren't introduced to Lishogi yet. Some of them are:

-Hide rating:
This is the best one, I think. Rating visibility adds nothing to the game experience, and it is an anxiety-inducing factor for many players.

-Coordinate training:

Lichess trainer has had some improvements recently. The most notable is untimed mode. Learning the coordinates with Japanese notation and only 30 seconds on the clock is hard.
Take a look at lichess.org/training/coordinate to see how good it works now.

Clear notifications:

It may be the least useful, but... is it useful to have notifications from almost a year ago?

-Allow users to delete their own forum posts:

You can't edit your post anymore after an unknown amount of time, but you can delete the original and rewrite it.

-Highlight original poster name in forum threads:

For people who find it hard to remember who's the OP.

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About hiding rating, there is zen mode on lishogi.

As for the other changes, it would take more time to implement (and there seem to be higher priority tasks) but they would be nice.

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I know about zen mode, but I find it problematic and incomplete because: 1) It hides the chat and your opponent doesn't know you're using it. 2) Rating points are everywhere (list of games on profiles, studies, TV, lobby, etc.). Those aren't affected by zen mode.

I feel this ubiquitous presence of the rating system can make users feel points are too important. That's why I prefer Lichess' new feature instead of zen mode.
I see begginers and weak players generally prefer casual matches vs AI and casual matches vs humans while strong players play mostly rated vs humans.

If what I'm saying is true, then:
1) Weak players are less likely to pick rated games from the lobby.
2) Weak players are less likely to participate in arenas.

The result is fewer human vs human games (on a website with a daily peak of 140 users and <70 games).

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In general... if your goal is discussion, by all means raise many topics in one forum post, but if your goal is for something to change then have a focused topic.

Incidentally I too would like to see an option to "hide ratings" although the implementation sounds nontrivial, I might be crazy enough to implement it. As long as Lishogi remains in "beta" I don't care about most of the "nice to have" suggestions mentioned (and even think allowing users to delete forum posts might be an anti-feature; Lichess players asked for it but they also ask for bughouse).

I don't actually know what "Highlight original poster name in forum threads" is.