I just read a write-up of some chess drama (https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/f9uv4d/chess_sp... ) and one of the plot points was that lichess doesn't accept electronic boards in their ranking system - you had to use their online client.

Now that's untrue. The timing is surprising/odd to me - I feel like there's some connection or twist waiting to be revealed here.