chess.com's popularity is derived from their SEO and twitch. They have a deal with nearly all chess twitch streamers which forces them to only play on chess.com

chess.com's popularity is derived from their SEO and twitch. They have a deal with nearly all chess twitch streamers which forces them to only play on chess.com and prohibits them from saying anything negative about the platform. Combine that with their competitor being a non-profit organization which has created numerous open source[1] chess tools like engines, icons and boards and I would call them pretty harmful. https://github.com/lichess-org https://github.com/lichess-org