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How to View User created tournaments? Also, why are there no more Crazyhouse tournaments anymore?

#1
Due to the fact lichess pulled my favorite feature - Crazyhouse 1 0 or faster tournaments - I decided to create my own. I did , but I do not see it show any where, and no one is joining. How can I see which user create tournaments are out there?

Also, is it possible to use a 3rd party interface like THIEF? I really liked the audio countdown feature where it would count aloud 10..9..8..7...etc.. once your time hit whatever parameter you specified. It was very helpful in speed chess. Please let me know if I can use Thief here, or if no, if there is a way for Lichess to code an audio countdown feature?

Thank You.
#4
@DonkeyHoagie

About the question with Crazyhouse tournaments - it has been asked before, but no coherent answer ever have been provided by lichess team.

This is from 4 months ago, when was the first time hourly crazyhouse arenas were cut down to 1 ever 2 hours:

lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/tournaments-26#8

This is from a month ago when again the not-so-hourly zh tournametns became 1 every 3 hours:

lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/why-are-there-less-crazyhouse-arenas-yet-again

Above thread, resulted in a github issue: github.com/ornicar/lila/issues/8925#issuecomment-842274274

However above thread was also closed without any explanation. I can only guess it was by @Toadofsky as his is the last message there. No idea.

Then next day another thread was started:
lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/too-few-crazyhouse-arenas

At the moment zh community is working on organizing tournaments every hour. You can read about the progress in that last thread or join this team: lichess.org/team/crazyhouse-curator

By joining that team you will receive messages where announcements will be made when those community drive tournaments will take off - hopefully soon - and how you can find them and join.

My personal opinion however remains that it would be much better if lichess re-thinks its current direction of removing hourly zh tournaments and makes steps to restore the situation as it was 4+ months ago when we had a zh tournament every hour, organized and promoted on lichess front page and not via community messages.
#5
#4 If you want the Lichess team to hear your opinion, please express it on the GitHub issue or they won't see it.
#6
#5

I am honestly confused. I accept my tone and communication skills might not be stellar, however I maintain, mine is not the only fault of lack of constructive progress in this communication, nor the fault can solely be found in the rest of the members of the zh community that expressed their "feedback"

First:
- What is the purpose of the Feedback forum?
Wouldn't you agree it misleads people into thinking the provided feedback in a forum called "Feedback" would be heard by lichess team, if you call a forum "Lichess Feedback".

Second:
There already is a github issue.

Third:
Writing good issues/bug reports is not an innate human skill.

Fourth:
I suspected that specific github issue might not express the situation perfectly, so i also wrote in the #general-programming channel on discord the same day or the next, where indeed already was some discussion on the topic that had the wrong idea, where I tried to explain what is the more general problem and that it is not just about specific time controls.
There was no demonstration that what I expressed was understood, but seems to have been read.
#8
I forgot this thread, but @DonkeyHoagie if you are still interested, we actually started community organized tournaments to replace the ones that lichess removed. They are always running, although not always with many participants and are exactly in the timeslots that no longer have crazyhouse tournaments. Check out this team for more info what time controls at what times of the day are currently running: lichess.org/team/underground-crazyhouse-hourly-arenas

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