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Chess.com mentions (11425)

• The Power of Community

  The advent of the internet led to the creation of online communities, which has evolved into various forms such as gaming communities (like EASports Online), football communities (like Footyaddicts), chess communities (like chess.com), and programming communities (like Laravel and Rails community, Google Developer groups, forloop Africa). - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• How I hacked chess.com with a rookie exploit

  Clearly chess.com was using something like "starts with" to process the re-upload. Basically don't re-upload if it starts with https://chess.com, but filter out if it starts with https://chess.com/registration-invite Typically same origin policies are relaxed for things like images by default [0]. So they came up with a trampoline, they created a chess.com.theirDomain.tld to get past the re-upload filter, which in... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Chess.com now has a „prediction booth“ after Firouzja complained about the CCT predictions being made in front of the players

  I haven't been staying current, chess.com commentators were analyzing games in earshot of players? Source: 5 months ago

• is chessbotX cheating?

  Do people know about this tool, its really making me wonder if cheating with these bots is super prevalent on chess.com and lichess. Source: 5 months ago

• Chess.com terrible coverage

  I for one found chess.com's coverage good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdgbmdsZEMs. Source: 5 months ago

Archive of Our Own mentions (627)

• I want to create IMDB for Open source projects

  I'm not sure how much value making something "not fugly" really matters. Design should be based on functionality, not anti-fugliness. In my experience, design considerations should come after building a successful growth "feedback loop." (Or whatever you want to call it.) At that point, you may decide making your website look "polished" isn't even necessary. IMDB was certainly quite ugly for a long time.... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• For a few times I’ve seen comments that this fanbase is small. How/why?

  On Archive Of Our Own , the theme for International Fanworks Day 2021 was fandoms/relationships that aren't well represented on the site. Based on an idea I'd had going back to 1992, I picked Mariah Carey and wrote this story. There are only 11 stories/works) about or involving Mariah on the site. Hell, she's been around 33 years and her first name still gets the red squiggle under it, meaning her name... Source: 5 months ago

• Larian romance stats vs AO3 stats

  It's the top-10 romantic relationships written about BG3 characters on AO3, the largest fanfiction website on the internet. Source: 6 months ago

• Larian romance stats vs AO3 stats

  For those not in the know, AO3 (the ArchiveOfOurOwn) is the largest (I think?) fanfiction website on the internet. Its interests are pretty different! ;). Source: 6 months ago

• Best Spuffy long fics?

  Elysian Fields is the place for Spuffy fanfic! I recommend doing an Advanced Search - you can search for and sort by word count, likes, etc. (similar to Archive of Our Own, also a place with Spuffy fics but not quite as user-friendly as EF). Source: 6 months ago