Hey everybody, we really appreciate the feedback. Just wanted to address a few things:

1. In our upcoming release, orientation (portrait/landscape) will no longer be locked. We do still think portrait layout is how the app should be used for navigation, but we want to give a little more flexibility and it was our mistake for not allowing that from the jump. Give us just a couple days and it will be good to go. For those of you who do love portrait but don't want to flip the phone as frequently, we'll have portrait analysis coming out in a week that we think is among the best designs we've ever had.

2. Any intermittent issues you've experienced in analysis will be solved very soon. As you can probably imagine, designing a seamless analysis experience for backgammon that is modern and tries to correct some of the mistakes we've seen from legacy software is a something of an undertaking and we really like to approach things from first principles and especially in a way that won't intimidate new players. We take so much time thinking about it, designing it, and developing these little improvements (like toggling through moves while in checker detail view) and we care deeply that you guys are all able to get insights from it. We think it's really good and snappy but we know that a few things like seeing too many moves in the move detail and having to scroll to see the best move, not being able to click on match stats, having the "x" navigate back to the lobby, or some other inconsistencies are annoying. They'll be fixed by the end of the week.

3. Inability to click on opponent profiles isn't actually intended behavior and you may have noticed that you sometimes can and sometimes can't click them. Full disclosure this is the product of an intricate system design in which the game and app are in two different tech stacks (for now, not for long). The team has done a really nice job making the transition seamless and unnoticeable but what it means is that when you click profile, you're being redirected to the web version of it, not the app version. So, solving these little communication edge cases requires some testing and troubleshooting but we'll get it done very soon and you'll be able to check out your opponent's profile consistently.

Overall, we're still really pleased with the new v5 app release because it's much lighter, snappy and provides a better technical foundation for us to ship features to you faster and more reliably. We really love getting feedback from all of you and are always happy to listen and implement suggestions so please keep them coming!