23000!

Congratulations
I used to be a chess.com user but as soon as I met lichess I came running.

I do not know how you could see the statistics (maybe someone can see it) but to the rhythm we go, in a year or two it will have surpassed chess.com

for me is almost impossible for 2 reasons;
1) money
2) name of domain

lichess is better, but chesscom is more powerful and easier to reach

but i am sure that lichess will be very close to chesscom

28.594 players
8.159 games in play
(now)

where the hell do all the players come from? :-D

I can confirm the new record, it is on my chart:

serversideapps.github.io/images/newrecord.png

My app recorded

28.697

players today at 19:45 GMT, this is a new record.

@scrimplington

i have seen 28000
and think i might have ever so briefly even seen 29000 once

Alexa ranking is also at all time high ( 2.069 ):

serversideapps.github.io/images/alexa.png

im thinking "wow! 23000? Who has a rating THAT high?"

Lichess has moved into the top 2000 most popular web sites for the first time:

www.alexa.com/siteinfo/lichess.org

29,016 players
8,415 games in play
(now)