Chapter limit in studies

Just now I ran into a post by lichess.org on Facebook, suggesting we can all upload our OTB games and store them on the lichess server for free, with annotation and such. But last I checked, lichess had this annoying limit of 64 chapters per study.

Is lichess ever going to fix this bad design choice? Or is it going to insist that everyone should just deal with this shortcoming?

(And I really cannot see any good reason not to allow more chapters that cannot be dealt with in any other way than with this chapter limit.)

They may have put chapter limit to save some overcharge their database.

As I said, sure you can come up with reasons to have a chapter limit, but none is convincing and in the long run it's just annoying for users.

I asked for that some time ago, and it was denied with the reason that there would be a need for additional UI features.
lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/please-remove-the-64-chapter-limit-from-studies

I don't see *why* that would be necessary. Just allowing more chapters without any further changes would be fine already.

Agreed.
Btw. broadcasts can have 128 games.

if I uploaded my multi-thousand game database of personal games, I believe the UI features needed would be searchability. Otherwise, I'd have to scroll for days looking for the games I wanted to review/use. You're talking about a full-on database.
However, I did see that Facebook post as well, and that was my first question... I had hoped to use the Study feature to store my Chess Team's games year-by-year, but each player plays about 40 competition games each season, and with 10-12 players on the team... I'd literally have to have each player set up their own study for each season. That's a lot of links to manage. So much easier to use my ChessBase. If at some point LiChess does include a free online database feature... It would be an amazing feature. THAT would be worth paying for. Oh wait, I already subscribe because LiChess is great. Maybe I'd up my monthly pledge.

@fuxia I previously opened a topic about this too, but both your topic and mine have already been archived. In any case, with the Facebook post I thought maybe lichess might want to reconsider now.

@CzTeacherMan Agreed - there are currently better game database management tools out there, with no limits on the size and easy searchability. If lichess chooses not to update the studies section then they should not pretend it can also be used for database management, and they should not post such misleading Facebook messages.

All this aside, I'm very happy with lichess and have been a faithful patron for some time now, but there's always room for improvement and the studies section is definitely one of those areas.

I'm honestly trying to understand what's so problematic about creating a new study for the 65th game.

#6 is an interesting use case I'll have to think more about in terms of management & searching.

It's probably due to this limit that we are unable to see the lower board games of the Olympiad broadcast. @Toadofsky

I see, the Olympiad Open section has up to 368 games per round, however our broadcast is coded to relay at most 128.