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Lucah873268

Lichess will win the war with Chess.com

SPARIMI

Thanks for making it free Lichess

snowcheetah

Free Lichess!

jjupiter6

"Lichess will win the war with chess.com"??
Come on - this isn't high school.
One of the many things I like about Lichess is the fact they focus on chess and not on silly manufactured drama in meaningless manufactured tournaments. They don't treat chess as a streaming product for fleeting entertainment of people with short attention spans.
There is no war. Leave that to the children and their endless clubs on other sites.

"Lichess will win the war with chess.com"?? Come on - this isn't high school. One of the many things I like about Lichess is the fact they focus on chess and not on silly manufactured drama in meaningless manufactured tournaments. They don't treat chess as a streaming product for fleeting entertainment of people with short attention spans. There is no war. Leave that to the children and their endless clubs on other sites.

shriyans24

is Lichess 10 🔟 year's old or 11?

CheckingTruth

Why chess.com will never be free.
Most websites subsist by selling ads or selling user data. Others do it by putting all their content behind paywalls. Chess.com does all of this and always will. Almost 6 years ago, chess.com founder Daniel Rensch explained why chess.com costs money - and what that means. A lot can change in 6 years but this is one thing that hasn't and never will.

This is our unbreakable promise to you, our users:

chess.com will always have ads.

chess.com will always sell our user’s data.

chess.com will never be free of charge.

Why Ads?

There is absolutely nothing negative about advertisements on websites from the perspective of their users. They never take up valuable screen space and bandwidth for something that nobody wants to see. They never manipulate and misinform. They have never been the source of security vulnerabilities.

So why are there ads our website? There is only one purpose they serve: to make Danny Rensch a bunch of fat stacks. We need all the money in the world, and running a site the size of chess.com is also quite expensive. We’ve gone more than a decade safely paying our bills with money from ads and there's no reason to think that won’t continue. Some may think that being free should be the end goal of every website and they are free to run their website that way if they wish, we prefer to do things differently.

Why does it cost money?

Chess.com is a profit-oriented association in the USA with the registered objective "Pour faire beaucoup d'argent à Daniel Rensch." or "To make Daniel Rensch a lot of money.". This is because we are driven by profit, and it is a goal for chess.com to make money.

What does this mean? Well, as well as the obvious aspect of having to pay to use chess.com, it means we're free to do what we think will make us a lot of money, rather than always pressured to "make everything free". Just like having adverts, we also have no incentive to make our features free, or to not sell your user data - chess.com exists to use you, not to be used BY you.

Why not Open-Source?

Would you eat a meal if the restaurant refused to let you pay? Would you drive a car if you weren’t allowed to pay for it? It would be pretty suspicious, right? It’s not really natural for people to want to know how a website they pay for works. You'll just have to take our word for it that chess.com works in a certain way, and mind your own damn business.

In conclusion, the answer to the question "why does chess.com cost money?" is very simple. Why wouldn’t it? Our only goal is to have the most profitable website possible. To that end, adding ads, paywalls, and trackers makes all the sense in the world.

Why chess.com will never be free. Most websites subsist by selling ads or selling user data. Others do it by putting all their content behind paywalls. Chess.com does all of this and always will. Almost 6 years ago, chess.com founder Daniel Rensch explained why chess.com costs money - and what that means. A lot can change in 6 years but this is one thing that hasn't and never will. This is our unbreakable promise to you, our users: chess.com will always have ads. chess.com will always sell our user’s data. chess.com will never be free of charge. Why Ads? There is absolutely nothing negative about advertisements on websites from the perspective of their users. They never take up valuable screen space and bandwidth for something that nobody wants to see. They never manipulate and misinform. They have never been the source of security vulnerabilities. So why are there ads our website? There is only one purpose they serve: to make Danny Rensch a bunch of fat stacks. We need all the money in the world, and running a site the size of chess.com is also quite expensive. We’ve gone more than a decade safely paying our bills with money from ads and there's no reason to think that won’t continue. Some may think that being free should be the end goal of every website and they are free to run their website that way if they wish, we prefer to do things differently. Why does it cost money? Chess.com is a profit-oriented association in the USA with the registered objective "Pour faire beaucoup d'argent à Daniel Rensch." or "To make Daniel Rensch a lot of money.". This is because we are driven by profit, and it is a goal for chess.com to make money. What does this mean? Well, as well as the obvious aspect of having to pay to use chess.com, it means we're free to do what we think will make us a lot of money, rather than always pressured to "make everything free". Just like having adverts, we also have no incentive to make our features free, or to not sell your user data - chess.com exists to use you, not to be used BY you. Why not Open-Source? Would you eat a meal if the restaurant refused to let you pay? Would you drive a car if you weren’t allowed to pay for it? It would be pretty suspicious, right? It’s not really natural for people to want to know how a website they pay for works. You'll just have to take our word for it that chess.com works in a certain way, and mind your own damn business. In conclusion, the answer to the question "why does chess.com cost money?" is very simple. Why wouldn’t it? Our only goal is to have the most profitable website possible. To that end, adding ads, paywalls, and trackers makes all the sense in the world.

jpw1

Lichess is the best page !! It is no discussion. All other websites you must pay money to make puzzles and games. THANKS LICHES!!!

leozhao911

Copy that

Dipta2020

so this forum was about a blog of why Lichess will always be free and what ended up happening was this massive discussion where everybody started comparing chess.com and lichess when everybody knows the answer lol