Github link:
github.com/ornicar/lila/pull/7890The original proposal was to implement two new lanes with Horde / RK and 3+ / 960 being featured every other hour bsesides the already exisiting Antichess / Atomic rotation. Instead, the code was edited to merge the four new variants into a three-hourly cycle. It's not perfect - ZH has privileges somewhat beyond what their current statistics would justify in my opinion - and a bit unfortunate for the anti and atomic fanatics, but allowing 7/8 variants to have their hourly tournaments is a huge improvement for all our respective communities.
...except King of the Hill, because screw King of the Hill apparently :-/
#8 was talking about the popularity of variants. If you want to check out the amount of players / week, you can go to
lichess.org/stat/rating/distribution/crazyhouse and select any variant that you'd like to see. For total amount of games played / month, see
database.lichess.org/#variant_games and search for your respective variant. Interesting statistics include that Antichess & Atomic are more actively played than both ZH and 960 by a fairly clear margin despite having slightly less players. Where RK once used to be far less popular than any other variant, it can now compete in terms of player numbers and has already passed KotH (in last place) and Horde when it comes to the total amount of games / month.
