Option to turn off new arrows

Lichess Developers you are the sunshine of my chess life. I love everything about the website, the design, the speed, reliability, community, blog posts, the starting page. when you added the new puzzle features some time ago i was finally doing more puzzles because it was motivating (i should do that again, my chess is suffering from playing to much bullet).
analyzing my games is already sad enough :D:D please make it possible to go back to the old arrow design that would be really nice of you. I am sorry i did not yet get a patreon account.

I like the new arrows which I find useful in studies to see variations I have covered, however it would be good to have an option to toggle them off for the reasons outlined in this thread, namely because it affects other functionalities in analysis mode eg. hovering mousing over the moves in opening explorer without clicking them showing an arrow on the board to indicate moves

@JKino1 said in #22:
> I like the new arrows which I find useful in studies to see variations I have covered, however it would be good to have an option to toggle them off

"Show variation arrows" setting will be coming soon:

github.com/lichess-org/lila/pull/13485

Part of what's confusing about the explanation of the new arrows is calling the game that was played the "Main Line."

Doesn't the "main line" typically refer to an established book line. Here, though, the main line appears to refer to what was actually played.

This makes it especially weird when you see that the main line is annotated with a blunder symbol (??) before the move is played, and then again is annotated with the blunder symbol again after it is played.

@gusbologna said in #16:
> It's now showing these arrows in my interactive lessons in studies when I get an answer wrong. It defeats the purpose of the study because it tells me the answer when I get it wrong instead of letting me try again.

I totally agree with gusbologna - interactive studies loose value because after the first wrong answer the purple arrow shows the correct answer and the educational value is limited.
An on/off option for the arrows would solve this problem and still allow the arrows where they are considered useful.

Not just the values, but these evaluations with !? and ??. It's awful, for people who take chess seriously. When I look for I blunder, I know I just have to look for drop in evaluation. These markings make it very distracting, and are quite out of style if you use dark theme. Not only this, but they are subjective. For some people 1.5 evaluation drop is a blunder, for other 0.7 e.t.c. It really depends on the level of play. Missing these evaluations was the thing that I like the most better than the other site. I am already tired of people on reddit with 900 rating who ask why taking a hanging piece is a "brilliant move". It's bullshit, that doesn't help improving in chess. I understand that it might appeal to some average players and visits for the site, but please, at least make an option to disable it, so that people can study chess seriously. I need numbered evaluations, not some labels tailored to make me feel better and judging average moves as blunder, brilliancy or whatever. Please, make it stop.

Option for turning them off would appear to be a necessary feature, but a nice feature would be also to add an opacity slider. Maybe they would be useful to have if they were reeeeally faint.

I like the arrows in general, but they really spoil the interactive lesson mode, so there definitely should be an option to turn them off, and they should be disabled by default in interactive lessons.

@dagmac said in #24:
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mainline. holy grail. Mainline is an illusion. it could just be the topmost variation, if we started being conscious about branch out ordering.. (which comes handy while thinking.. just remember to push down the garbage moves).

vertical dimension of the user tree is not the default until n (branching number) hits n>2. which is why if only one garbage move, and a blunder it would be on same line...

people have adapted to machine mind funneling so much that they think a parenthesis is how trees look in more than one dimension, like for example in a web page (that is 2D, right?).

I like being aware of branching points while flying by a top variation (if mainline, then that is the top one).

Mainline while playing does not make sense past the current position. Yes mainline is also tradition for opening decision tracking... when the historical first one was most played.. maybe and had few branching points.

now each time a new variation appears among the glorious ones, what becomes of the mainline? why would the historical sergment, still keep mainline.. historical line perhaps.. but at each branch points there go the mainline concept.. unless in opening "theory" there is an ordering of odds at such branch points.. all branches are worthy of glorious status of repertoire, no?

Here is a recent video from a popular Youtube channel "Hanging Pawns" where he apologizes for the arrows every time they show up (many times throughout the video).
youtu.be/VAI8VIs85Cg?si=MpaDaayyEWXUGv05
So even when this blunder is fixed, it is forever immortalized on Youtube.