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I know it's not a fair comparison but I'm truly impressed by the quality of engineering shown by the Lichess team, when their main competitor was for example bo

I know it's not a fair comparison but I'm truly impressed by the quality of engineering shown by the Lichess team, when their main competitor was for example boasting about a migration to GCP and yet suffering from repeated outages due to fairly organic growth in popularity. While I believe they employ 100x more people. Lichess' mobile app was a weak spot, however the v2 rewrite in Flutter is already pretty good while still in beta. And keep in mind Thibault pays himself less than 60k/year.

peter_retief 2y ago
Lichess is a great service to casual chess players like myself to get a quick game against another human. Never much of a wait. What I do want to know is how does one pronounce Lichess? Lie chess, Le chess?, League chess?
- hocuspocus 2y ago
  /li:/ as in libre.
- jffry 2y ago
  According to https://lichess.org/faq#name https://lichess.org/faq#name: "Lichess is a combination of live/light/libre and chess. It is pronounced lee-chess" They also link this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRpPqcrdE-o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRpPqcrdE-o
  - tecleandor 2y ago
    I guess it's because of the lychee fruit?
  - peter_retief 2y ago
    Thanks.
- ycombinete 2y ago
  I’m team lie-chess.
sgt 2y ago
I don't think he needs to feel bad about increasing his salary. Make it 200k/yr and make his life easier, which can only be good for the project long term.
- hocuspocus 2y ago
  I don't know him personally but from the talks he's given, he seems to be ideological about Lichess and his own lifestyle, in a way that would be considered fairly anti-capitalistic by most of the HN crowd :)
  - treyd 2y ago
    Do you have links to any of these talks you could recommend?
    - heap_perms 2y ago
      Not OP but I can recommend this talk by Thibault (the founder): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZgyVadkgmI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZgyVadkgmI
- epidemian 2y ago
  IDK about France (where Thibault is from, and IDK if he lives there), but where i'm from, you would have a very comfortable life earning 5k every month, so his self-imposed 60k/yr salary doesn't seem unreasonable at all. At some point, more money yields diminishing returns.
  - diggan 2y ago
    > but where i'm from, you would have a very comfortable life earning 5k every month, so his self-imposed 60k/yr salary doesn't seem unreasonable at all. (Some) HN commentators seems weirdly out of touch when it comes to salary outside of IT-heavy cities in the US. The other day someone claimed $125k/year for an employee wasn't "big money" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40927175 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40927175), so I'd take any comments saying some salary is high/low with a box filled with sand.
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epolanski 2y ago
I think you're highly overestimating how many devs Chess.com has
- hocuspocus 2y ago
  I am not, that's why I said employees not devs.
Sesse__ 2y ago
Lichess is a great example of how efficient Wikipedia should have been (both on the code and organization level). :-)

peter_retief 2y ago

Lichess is a great service to casual chess players like myself to get a quick game against another human. Never much of a wait. What I do want to know is how does one pronounce Lichess? Lie chess, Le chess?, League chess?

hocuspocus 2y ago
/li:/ as in libre.
jffry 2y ago
According to https://lichess.org/faq#name https://lichess.org/faq#name: "Lichess is a combination of live/light/libre and chess. It is pronounced lee-chess" They also link this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRpPqcrdE-o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRpPqcrdE-o
- tecleandor 2y ago
  I guess it's because of the lychee fruit?
- peter_retief 2y ago
  Thanks.
ycombinete 2y ago
I’m team lie-chess.

sgt 2y ago

I don't think he needs to feel bad about increasing his salary. Make it 200k/yr and make his life easier, which can only be good for the project long term.

hocuspocus 2y ago
I don't know him personally but from the talks he's given, he seems to be ideological about Lichess and his own lifestyle, in a way that would be considered fairly anti-capitalistic by most of the HN crowd :)
- treyd 2y ago
  Do you have links to any of these talks you could recommend?
  - heap_perms 2y ago
    Not OP but I can recommend this talk by Thibault (the founder): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZgyVadkgmI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZgyVadkgmI
epidemian 2y ago
IDK about France (where Thibault is from, and IDK if he lives there), but where i'm from, you would have a very comfortable life earning 5k every month, so his self-imposed 60k/yr salary doesn't seem unreasonable at all. At some point, more money yields diminishing returns.
- diggan 2y ago
  > but where i'm from, you would have a very comfortable life earning 5k every month, so his self-imposed 60k/yr salary doesn't seem unreasonable at all. (Some) HN commentators seems weirdly out of touch when it comes to salary outside of IT-heavy cities in the US. The other day someone claimed $125k/year for an employee wasn't "big money" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40927175 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40927175), so I'd take any comments saying some salary is high/low with a box filled with sand.

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epolanski 2y ago

I think you're highly overestimating how many devs Chess.com has

hocuspocus 2y ago
I am not, that's why I said employees not devs.

Sesse__ 2y ago

Lichess is a great example of how efficient Wikipedia should have been (both on the code and organization level). :-)