Swiss tournaments

I'm sorry for probably raising this topic for the 100th time (I couldn't get the lichess search option to work properly), but could someone tell me why lichess still does not have tournaments with a fixed number of rounds, e.g. using a swiss pairing system?

I understand the initial motivation and innovation of the arenas and sure, those tournaments should definitely stay. But with things like Lichess Teams, where chess clubs can now resume playing online during times of quarantine, I believe there is quite a big demand for the option of swiss pairings, with a fixed number of rounds.

From personal experience I know quite a few chess clubs have switched to the-site-which-shall-not-be-named as that site does offer chess clubs and internal swiss tournaments, as opposed to lichess. At the same time I believe many of those would be happy to switch to the open, free lichess if it supported this as well. (And no, many of them are not looking to play e.g. 10-20 player rapid tournaments in the arena format.)

Anyway: I understand that initially there was no need to implement this alternative format, but maybe it's time to reconsider?

completely agree, for longer time formats it just makes more sense.

Sumasang ayon ako sa iyo masmaganda nga kapag may swiss pairing kase wala naman time para gawin naman iyon

I'd strongly agree at least some standard formats (robin, swiss etc) should be implemented in lichess custom tournaments; I don't think the software implementation is too tough for the lichess developers.

+1 at least explain to us why this isn't something that can/ will be implemented, if that is indeed the case

lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/round-robin-tournament?page=5#45

Also applies to Swiss System tournaments!

we do indeed need a swiss system here

I agree. As the weeks progress, we experience more and more difficulties to keep our club members. Some of them don't want to participate anymore because of the big rating differences and weird pairings that come with rapid play and not enough people (less than 25). How much I'd like to stay here, the pressure is rising to move to chessdotcom with their Swiss tournaments... They even made that feature free for the next months, making it harder for me to come up with reasons to keep doing arena stuff at Lichess.

Then sit down and program it yourself!

The sitting down part is going fine, but besides a little bit of knowledge from HTML/CSS/PHP/Javascript to run the local chess club site I won't get far. Before I have learned programming in Scala ánd figured out the structure of Lichess in my spare time, we're talking more than a few months. So for now I just keep donating every month and do a bit of brainstorming. If I can test something out, I'd be more than happy to do so. But thank you for the suggestion @odoaker2015 .