Just want to say that this is a really nice website and having all the code on github is awesome.
Thanks ! Lichess the best !
It is indeed. I took a 6 month break here to try out everything on chess.com, I ́ve now closed my account there, I couldn ́t stand it any more and am well pleased to be back :)
@Wasted_Youth said in #3:
> It is indeed. I took a 6 month break here to try out everything on chess.com, I ́ve now closed my account there, I couldn ́t stand it any more and am well pleased to be back :)
Or in other words:
> It is indeed. I took a 6 month break from life to try out everything in prison, I ́ve now served my sentence there, I couldn ́t stand it any more and am well pleased to be back :)
> It is indeed. I took a 6 month break here to try out everything on chess.com, I ́ve now closed my account there, I couldn ́t stand it any more and am well pleased to be back :)
Or in other words:
> It is indeed. I took a 6 month break from life to try out everything in prison, I ́ve now served my sentence there, I couldn ́t stand it any more and am well pleased to be back :)
@Wasted_Youth said in #3:
> It is indeed. I took a 6 month break here to try out everything on chess.com, I ́ve now closed my account there, I couldn ́t stand it any more and am well pleased to be back :)
If you tried everything in chess.com, you wasted, not only your Youth, but also your (pressumably hard-earned) cash
> It is indeed. I took a 6 month break here to try out everything on chess.com, I ́ve now closed my account there, I couldn ́t stand it any more and am well pleased to be back :)
If you tried everything in chess.com, you wasted, not only your Youth, but also your (pressumably hard-earned) cash
My main criticism of the site would be that through its manifold rewarding mechanisms (awards etc), it creates immense pressure on its members to improve continually. If you get an award for every 100 rating points more, for the number of won tournaments etc., the incentive to cheat rises considerably, and the site is rife with cheaters. Like: really, really rife.
Then there ́s the fact that c dot c ́s interface and style make it very attractive to schoolkids who are still struggling with understanding such terms as forum netiquette, trolling, pointless boasting etc ... the Forum there is intolerable, 90% garbage. Add to that the fact that all the active teams seem to be controlled by egomaniacal 16 year olds with 20 similar Admins to help them, each of whom has his own team with the same guys as Admins, and all of whom want nothing more than to increase the size of their teams (awards!!!) ... no, no, no!
Conclusion: Lichess is about playing chess for the love of the game; chess.com is a huge commercial enterprise which directs all its efforts into making even more money by every means possible. Not for me.
Then there ́s the fact that c dot c ́s interface and style make it very attractive to schoolkids who are still struggling with understanding such terms as forum netiquette, trolling, pointless boasting etc ... the Forum there is intolerable, 90% garbage. Add to that the fact that all the active teams seem to be controlled by egomaniacal 16 year olds with 20 similar Admins to help them, each of whom has his own team with the same guys as Admins, and all of whom want nothing more than to increase the size of their teams (awards!!!) ... no, no, no!
Conclusion: Lichess is about playing chess for the love of the game; chess.com is a huge commercial enterprise which directs all its efforts into making even more money by every means possible. Not for me.
> My main criticism of the site would be that through its manifold rewarding mechanisms (awards etc), it creates immense pressure on its members to improve continually.
this is why i quit a lot of websites (like duolingo and chess.com) and games (like halo: infinite). I am there to either learn or have fun, and everything got in the way. I understand that a company with funding like chess.com has funding which can do a lot (like fund tournamnets), but jesus it is so bad.
I can't do anything on chess.com, it takes me 5 minutes just to challenge someone, and there are secret pathways to options. On lichess, everything is 2 clicks away. i feel like an advertisement lol, but lichess is free god bless.
this is why i quit a lot of websites (like duolingo and chess.com) and games (like halo: infinite). I am there to either learn or have fun, and everything got in the way. I understand that a company with funding like chess.com has funding which can do a lot (like fund tournamnets), but jesus it is so bad.
I can't do anything on chess.com, it takes me 5 minutes just to challenge someone, and there are secret pathways to options. On lichess, everything is 2 clicks away. i feel like an advertisement lol, but lichess is free god bless.
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