"Study" user interface / commenting

First, let me say I really appreciate all the effort the developers are putting into Lichess and love all the fun and useful things that you are adding. It was always amazing how good Lichess is and that you never ask for subscriptions or host advertisements, but now with all these new features.. it's just mind blowing.

So here's a little suggestion on where it could be improved further. When adding comments when doing a 'study' I'm forced to:
1. Change my focus off the board and visually locate the current move in the move list on the right.
2. Bring the pointer over to that spot and Right click on it.
3. After another pop up, locate and click on the icon for adding comments.

With other programs(such as Chessbase) one can simply press an easy keyboard shortcut and you're already in the edit field for your comment. It would be just grand if you could put in a keyboard shortcut for adding comments, and I would think from a programming standpoint it would be very easy to do.

Also, while on the subject, the comment edit box is located below the board and when typing in it the screen is automatically scrolled down hiding the board. I often find myself having to scroll up and down to take another look at the board to remember or check on something while writing a comment. It would be so much better if the comment edit box could just appear to the side so that this whole problem is avoided.

Again, thanks on all your good work and look forward to seeing where you take Lichess in the future.

What screen resolution are you using? Or maybe make a fullscreen screenshot, which covers zooms are such.. here's mine

I have highlighted the comment button right below the board, it should be visible on most screens and is quite easy to reach.

However I made a userscript that binds the a button to open it, click the question mark if you don't know how to install it. (you can edit it after installing to change the key to something else.
greasyfork.org/en/scripts/21946-lichess-study-comment-keybind/code

Using scripts to extend the web to your own liking with your own keys is the freedom ever, and I highly recommend you learn some of it. It should not be a requirement of course, but if you are interested www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming

Some minor testing suggests that it should work with just 680 pixels high screen resolution without scrolling down (or more with lots of comments ofc), so I'm interested in what you have.

Screen resolution- 1280x768 Browser- Chrome. Screenshots: http://oi67.tinypic.com/11abz9f.jpg , http://oi68.tinypic.com/o0tgky.jpg

On the comment edit box location issue... Of course I could zoom out to the point where the board was small enough that the comment edit field below is visible with the board but for obvious reasons I don't want to do that (much nicer to work with a large board, especially for those working with large or small screens or those who want to make it easier on our eyes).

As for the shortcut key request... you have been nice enough to go to the trouble of coming up with a decent workaround for me but I still think it would be much better for the keyboard shortcut to be built into Lichess itself, such as is done with some of the other(really helpful) keyboard shortcuts. For one thing, sometimes I have to work on other people's computers and people are often wary about giving permission to install scripts on their computer which they might not have the savvy to understand. Also, I'm going to try to get some people that I'm collaborating with to use Lichess as our platform and hence the same concern as above. But in the broader context wouldn't it make a lot more sense to have the shortcut built in rather than asking every contributor to Lichess studies who wants to have an efficient user interface to have to seek out and install third party software(as cool as greasemonkey is ) ?

Btw, thanks for the reminder about that. I've been thinking about learning greasemonkey in the back of my mind for a while. I'm kind of a scriptmonkey myself with Autohotkey. But of course AHK is more clunky and inefficient for web applications. For example, if you hadn't given me this script, and Lichess won't add the keyboard shortcut I probably would have come up with a script in AHK to search for a snippet of the image of the comment button then, once located, sent a mouseclick. Your way is so much more elegant. Of course the best would be for Lichess to just put in the little shortcut key heh.

(a bit offtopic, but i want to recommend this amazing FFaddon which also exists for chrome: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimfx enables me to use the whole browser with the keyboard only, just in case you haven't heard about it ;) )

New keyboard shortcuts lichess.org/study/vCV8kZWo#keyboard

en.lichess.org/study/vCV8kZWo#keyboard

Thibault... When I try the C keyboard shortcut on my PC, it works : )

But then exits me to what I believe is one of your studies ? (link)

@thibault
{mindblown x2}
That the site has gotten as big as it has(nothing compared to where it will go in the future I think though) and it's still the case that I can ask for a change to the website and within one day the creators get it done... just wow!
Thanks thibault. \m/ >_< \m/