I don't know what to do anymore.

I mostly play when the network traffic is low, like late night.

@GettingMuchStronger said in #30:

What country, wlan or cable, potatoe or high-end machine and so on?

Indonesia, cabled internet (single 10Mbps ISP shared with 3 families), machine built around 200ge cpu.

@SnekNOTSnake48 said in #32:

Indonesia, cabled internet (single 10Mbps ISP shared with 3 families), machine built around 200ge cpu.
Ok, Indonesia is certainly not the best place for online chess, cabled is good, not much to do there.
But maybe you can look for impediments that could slow down your machine and operating system (Windows?).
Chrome used to be good for lichess, the devellopers had a crush on it, I don't know if Chrome browser is still better than my Firefox, fpr example. Maybe you can try it.
Also have a look at running tasks and tabs and close everything that is not necessary at the moment.
Windows updates can still be a big slowdown, try to find out how you can get some influence there, at least you can choose the time when it makes the updates, so that they don't interfere with your playing more than necessary.
Reaction times on a machine can also depend on the activated visual effects, at least on slow computers, try to find out, how you can switch off all the unnecessary blinking.
Mouse settings are also important, I am actually playing with a bad mouse, right now, but I know that a good mouse and good settings can give a totally different experience.
Maybe you can improve your performance despite the larger than minimal ping, good luck!

9 times out of 10 when I'm playing with someone from Asian countries including India they're at one bar and they're usually the only ones I experience timeouts with.

I don't know why that is. Has to be a country Internet infrastructure thing or a lichess server thing.

I imagine if you can afford Starlink you could use it and it would probably resolve the problem. If it really is a lichess throttling certain countries due to users (If I play at 1 AM in the states the online users ALWAYS goes up significantly) then VPN would be another option.

@superstituous said in #34:

If it really is a lichess throttling certain countries due to users ...
Yea, that must be it, how could we miss that all the time.
I am sure now that they are also throtteling the billions of players from a rich country like Argentinia who also suffer from lag when they play me. Like always the solution is actually very easy, thanks!

@GettingMuchStronger said in #35:

Yea, that must be it, how could we miss that all the time.
I am sure now that they are also throtteling the billions of players from a rich country like Argentinia who also suffer from lag when they play me. Like always the solution is actually very easy, thanks!

Well it's a possibility, complete speculation... I didn't say it was definitely the problem.
And now that I look at it there's like 80K users on right now so maybe I was wrong about many users at night... Hmm I'm a new user forgive my overconfidence..

@superstituous said in #36:

Hmm I'm a new user forgive my overconfidence..
Of course.
But you should do some research about lichess and its, well, let's use a big word, "philosophy".
The idea that they throttle countries is just absurd. I mean, they are really trying hard to get it right, and more than that.

Yeah I like lichess I'm not here to make waves. Apologies again.

why did someone play so terrible as white and post his game? I feel that the white d4 move is missing. Maybe it was just playing on time instead of positional play.