I'm quite impressed...

Press coverage is beneficial. Just a picture of the main page of lichess is enough for chess players who favour aesthetics to join.

Also, I have a lichess Wikipedia article in the works. When lichess meets NWEB (notability guideline for websites), it can be moved to article space.

twitter.com/lichessorg - the lichess twitter

I think the website could get more audience through social netork plateform.

- On every game page, there could be a "share" buttons to easily post the URL link on facebook, twitter, etc.

- Users could also connect their lichess profile to their facebook/twitter/whatever accounts and then Lichess could "invite a friend" by posting a private message directly to this person.

- Bloggers could be interested by a simple way to embed a lichess board on their blog ?

Maybe these ideas have been tried or they already exists .... This is just my 2 cents..

I know Thibault is not keen at all to have those share buttons on lichess, I believe for privacy reasons as lichess respects privacy.

Is it a privacy issue? Lichess could have an unobtrusive "share" button on games - when clicked shows facebook, twitter, etc.. and if any of those is chosen, it just creates the initial text of the tweet (or whatever). So the user does not need to share this information with lichess or go with the default text given.

Youtube does this:
Go to a video and click on the share link - all of the different types are exposed - then you edit and submit.
e.g. for twitter it gives me this text:
The Best Of - Radiohead (Full Album): http://youtu.be/om8invGWkeo via @YouTube
which I can easily edit.

Lichess could do the same ("Check out this game - {X} {beat} {Y} in a {blitz} game {game URL} via @lichessorg")

I am not a big fan of social media (hate facebook), but many/most people use it - so why not make sharing easy?

Wow...I'm glad this thread became so active. Indeed, there's a ton of potential for growth here, even if one adhered to stringent non profit guidelines.

The fact of the matter is that lichess highlights why a site like chess.com charging up to $14 monthly is just obscene. He has effectively proved his point that a company that size doesn't *need* to charge their customers in order to provide all of the features the community wants. In fact, lichess offers players more than the entirety of a diamond subscription over on chess.com does.

Keep up the great work but let's also keep the ideas flowing on how to direct more attention over here. That's really all it's going to take in most cases. I was on the site less than 60 seconds before I registered an account. This site is solid gold.

I think the share buttons feed some information to facebook about the user, or something? I'm not technically minded, so you'll need someone like thib or Clarkey. Just repeating what I suspect.

The share widgets contain JavaScript functionality that enable the social networks in particular to track your activity across the web, unless your browser sends the Do Not Track flag with page requests. These widgets do not require you to use them or click them for them to accomplish that task. Thibault believes - as do I - that this is a needless affront on your privacy, and so has intentionally chosen *not* to incorporate official widgets. There is, however, nothing at all to stop you from manually sharing links to your games on Twitter, Facebook and such.

I would like the ability to be able to embed games in other pages, though.

Google analytics is also a violation of privacy, and yet...

@AdmiralA - ok - was unaware they track you just by being there.

Manual sharing is of course doable - but naturally the easier you make something the more it will be done (e.g. I like a game I played, a click later it is on twitter, vs get the game link, write a message, go to twitter, post)

I am a big fan of privacy though.... so I can see the other side. Maybe something to be said for a share button that only generates/displays the text that can be copied? At least gets you half way to a twitter/facebook post without needing their javascript.