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• TheRoque
  Huge 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
• cjpearson
  The linked post on Take Take Take is interesting. Magnus Carlsen created a chess.com competitor and eventually sold it to chess.com and became a sponsor. While working as a sponsor he then created a new chess.com competitor.I'm a Lichess patron and happy to see them get support, but I do feel a bit bad for chess.com in this case. Magnus is such a big figure in chess that organizations like FIDE and chess.com feel they have no choice but to accommodate his whims, but that doesn't come with any guarantees. I hope Lichess does not find themselves in a poor position if Magnus decides to "alter the deal".
• yewenjie
  I love Lichess more than anything, and I hope this brings a lot of donation to them that they can use independently, and that the Lichess brand does not get subsumed by Take Take Take and their corporate money.
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  sheiyei
  Lichess is incredibly well optimized [0] (and an amazing public service). I'm sure that this is very cost effective for TTT, so a win-win.[0] https://lichess.org/@/revoof/blog/optimizing-the-tablebase-s...
• k2xl
  Lichess has been absolutely fantastic platform. AS a chess enthusiast as an engineer of a chess website me and some others are building (shameless plug, https://chess67.com), they are the only platform I have worked with where so much is so easily accessible in terms of their APIs.Their Oauth requires to special app registration nor any oauth secrets - only platform I have seen that does that.I do wonder how this opens up ability for people to integrate Lichess’ player pool to their own apps.
• tartoran
  Big fan of Lichess here. Such a great and underrated service.
• TheSilva
  This is huge, congrats to the lichess team.
• ddp26
  The free open source model does have its competitive advantages!
• ForHackernews
  As it happens "Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement" is also OpenAI's modus operandi when it comes to the publishing industry.