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Idea for "Rating Range"-Change

Dear Lichess Communitiy

Introduction: I often switch from bullet to classic and then to blitz and then I repeat this behavior.

Problem: The "problem" is, that I have to adjust everytime the pool of players I wanna play against, since my rating varies between each time mode. And the adjustment process is on this page a little bit laborious in my opinion. (The proof for this statement is, that this very post you're reading right now actually exists)

Solving Suggestion: I present to you: 3 buttons, only one of em can be clicked.
1st Button: Play against worse and better opponents
2nd Button: Play against better opponents
3rd Button: Play against worse opponents
--> after clicking, a magical bar arises and lets You set up on how better or worse (or both) your opponents Rating can be.

Thank You all for reading this thing and thanks for considerations
Mat
There's an even easier solution. Instead of setting an absolute rating level, use a relative range. So the bar indicates how high or how low you are willing to play above/below your current rating. The nice thing is this also compensates for downswings and upswings in rating as well.
Does anybody know how to actually make this happen?
Like:
-is it possible to make this change by agreement with the lichess community?
--> would a poll or something equvalent be neccessary?
-who can program this little bird?

Who can provide answers?
Alright guys, got an update from the poll:http://www.strawpoll.me/11401030/r

-Out of 16 voters it happend ZERO times that somebody doesn't want a change
-It's fair to say, that the ones who want a change won with a landslide against the "don't care" party. Thats what I call historic right there.

Does somebody with some mad program sklizzz voluenteer to change it? I think there is a lot of honour and social acceptance up for grabs ;)

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