alt Hacker NewsHuge respect to Lichess. Open source, no ads, super clean interface and super functional website. Chess.com is a pain to use compared to it.
All their finances are also public: https://lichess.org/costs
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elAhmo • today at 5:22 PM
Quite amazing to see that "French social security / pension contrib" are almost the same as their total server costs, and there is loads of them.
With just a few employees, it is quite interesting to compare how much do some of these contributions cost, effectively affecting only a person or two, compared to a service like Lichess which is used by 5-10 million of users each month.
DEDLINE • today at 5:45 PM
100%. Beautiful property. Thank you, Lichess, for everything you do.
It's truly phenomenal.
Even my diamond platinum extreme chess.com subscription (or however the third-best tier of a dozen or so is called) has much less functionality than Lichess's only tier.