I started Lichess, Ask Me Anything

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Chess.com

A signature feature of Lichess is its premoves: a system where you can make only one premove at a time, but you don't lose any time when a premove is played. Compare this to chess.com, where you can make many premoves (I think 8, someone fact-check me) but you lose 0.1 seconds per premove. This might not seem like a lot, but consider it from this perspective: if you have 1 second left in a game with no increment, you can only make 10 more moves before you automatically lose. This becomes relevant in fast time controls like bullet, hyperbullet, and ultrabullet.

#Chess #Games #Online Games 11425 social mentions

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Lichess

My questions are as follows: 1) In the analysis section, some of the moves are marked as mistakes, inaccuracies and blunders by their respective symbols. Could there be a depiction of views which are good, great and brilliancy moves? 2) Apart from the chess server work, what other hobbies do you have? 3) What is your vision of lichess.org in the next coming years?

#Chess #Games #Online Games 893 social mentions

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Exercise.com

In short: Erik Allebest hired me to work on exercise.com, after I had started working on Lichess. I never had access to any code or intel from chess.com. I left exercise.com to work for startups unrelated to chess for 6 years, before Lichess hired me as full-time dev.

#Health And Fitness #Appointments and Scheduling #Business & Commerce 4 social mentions

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Plausible.io

Nandemo asked about geolocation tracking for lichess, maybe you could try https://plausible.io or matamo? Both libre/open source and non-tracking (althought default plausible instance is cloudflare hosted I think).

#Web Analytics #Analytics #Privacy 187 social mentions

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Prismic

Yes, I was working for various startups, the last one and also my favourite one being https://prismic.io.

#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 34 social mentions