@chessenthusiasts1990
Well if you put it that way, then I definitely advocate that they make that option available for you so that you can practice with it and get used to it for your local OTB tournaments.
With that said, the logistics are nasty in terms of splitting the memberbase.
If they made both options available and 1/2 went with it and 1/2 stayed with increments...then we'd all have x2 wait times in queue.
It's probably not the biggest deal at the lower ratings brackets, but after 2000 it can already take a minute depending on the time of day and on the luck.
But truth be told, there are nearly as many standard games being played weekly, as there were rapid games a year ago.
The growth is phenomenal and there are no signs of slowing down.
So I think I'd actually be OK with it as long as everyone is doing what they can to make sure that people are immediately addicted to the community and want to play and stay here for life.
With that said, if the split was closer to 25:75 to one side or the other...then 10s of 1000s of people would be put out with x4 wait times.
If I was an efficiency expert and in charge of Lichess maintenance, I'd need to have some rock solid numbers, objective numbers, in order to write policy on the matter.
Well if you put it that way, then I definitely advocate that they make that option available for you so that you can practice with it and get used to it for your local OTB tournaments.
With that said, the logistics are nasty in terms of splitting the memberbase.
If they made both options available and 1/2 went with it and 1/2 stayed with increments...then we'd all have x2 wait times in queue.
It's probably not the biggest deal at the lower ratings brackets, but after 2000 it can already take a minute depending on the time of day and on the luck.
But truth be told, there are nearly as many standard games being played weekly, as there were rapid games a year ago.
The growth is phenomenal and there are no signs of slowing down.
So I think I'd actually be OK with it as long as everyone is doing what they can to make sure that people are immediately addicted to the community and want to play and stay here for life.
With that said, if the split was closer to 25:75 to one side or the other...then 10s of 1000s of people would be put out with x4 wait times.
If I was an efficiency expert and in charge of Lichess maintenance, I'd need to have some rock solid numbers, objective numbers, in order to write policy on the matter.