ornicar

Thank you so much for all the support, thoughts, and advice.

I just published an update on the blog post: https://lichess.org/@/thibault/blog/lichess-on-scala3-help-n...

These are just the most recent. ATM there are 10,722 active patron accounts.

You can request server analysis for your own games, up to 40 per day. They use fishnet.

Indeed. Lichess also does autopairing, so when someone else creates a 10+10 game, you'll get paired without anyone needing to scan the seek list.

To quote happy0: "the plan is to avoid business!"

For more info, see http://lichess.org/blog/U4skkUQAAEAAhIGz/why-is-lichess-free

Also note that we suck at marketing, but it doesn't matter, since we don't do it at all.

Well it's open source (https://github.com/ornicar/lila), and all features are for free, forever, without any ads. That certainly puts it apart form other chess services I know.

According to Alexa, it is. And by far. http://chess-links.org/

Haha I remember that one! A very, very nasty mistake from me. Lichess was comparing your token to black token, and if it didn't match, it was just assuming that you were the white player. How silly :D

I must mention that it was fixed, indeed, years ago.

"The only site I ever visit while I work." -- edw519

That's the best testimonial I ever read about lichess. Permission to quote requested.

Have you actually read the article? It's all explained http://en.lichess.org/blog/U4mtoEQAAEEAgZRL/strongest-chess-...

lichess opens only one websocket connection, on a port between 9021 to 9029. That port range prevents a weird behavior on firefox when the connection is interrupted.

thanks for the feedback, I will apply the suggested change soon.

lichess.org is a game server, and supports real-time playing. The ping is a critical information when you play fast games, it helps to diagnose lagging when it happens.