"Blame bad luck; lichess can do no wrong but when it does cannot be expected to remedy it." What a cop-out.
All games wrecked by a server issue should be aborted by the server, with no negative consequences for either player. (No rating changes, no reduction in game completion rate.) This ought to be detectable via an algorithm and be essentially automated.
Until recently this was a rare enough occurrence that maybe it was no big deal. Lately it seems to happen almost daily, so it demands a solution.
How are you supposed to abort games in an unscheduled crash? When the servers go down without warning, how are you going to be able to abort all ongoing games?
I believe that games are aborted during scheduled downtime.
@TCF_Namelecc
Upon startup, the server should know when it was last operating normally. It should retroactively change all games that were ongoing at that time to "no result" as part of its normal crash recovery process.
This would not be so difficult to implement, either.
With scheduled downtime, this would be even easier. It could abort the games in progress immediately, complete with in-game notification that the game was aborted procedurally prior to server maintenance.
It's easier to make excuses than to find solutions. That does not mean solutions don't exist.
Lichess literally is like tesla, except free. Thank God for lichess and the hard work dedicated nerds put into it so that lazy asses like myself get to play at a better than money can buy chess experience
"Lichess literally is like Tesla..." doesn't even make sense. In what regard is it "like Tesla?" Rehashing a 100-year-old idea and pretending they've invented something new? (Until the mid-1920s, there were more electric cars than gasoline-powered, and had the same or BETTER range on a single charge than today's electric cars.)
My point is that we're dealing with a known issue. I appreciate new features like Puzzle Storm, I truly do, but perhaps it's better to resolve known issues with the site's primary purpose -- playing online chess -- before adding new features that are only secondary to the site's main reason for existence.
Cue the sycophantic thumbs down from fanboy-types...
In the way that it has no real competition, but it's free. It makes other websites very slow by comparison.
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