@C4LWangA I hope but I doubt that. There are 4.66B internet users total, so 1/4 to 1/5 of the users have to make a lichess account. Not to mention some accounts aren't even used.
@C4LWangA Let's be careful what we wish for. I don't know the tech side of things, 1B users sounds insanely expensive. Do the number of servers required scale linearly with the number of users? I would tend to think not.
I imagine there has to be some point where it's very difficult to maintain a donation-only model. Unless maybe we can get Bill Gates to be lichess' secret Santa and get him to donate a whole bunch of servers (and a small solar farm to provide free electricity to power them all!)
Edit: I just remembered that France has nuclear power and exports a lot of energy to Spain and the surrounding countries. Electricity costs are probably pretty cheap over there, so we might not need to worry about power costs nearly as much.
I imagine there has to be some point where it's very difficult to maintain a donation-only model. Unless maybe we can get Bill Gates to be lichess' secret Santa and get him to donate a whole bunch of servers (and a small solar farm to provide free electricity to power them all!)
Edit: I just remembered that France has nuclear power and exports a lot of energy to Spain and the surrounding countries. Electricity costs are probably pretty cheap over there, so we might not need to worry about power costs nearly as much.
That is great news 😀
Merci pour ce message Thibault, même si j'ai peu de moyens je tiens à faire un petit don, pour continuer à faire vivre le site et les belles valeurs que tu promeus !
Thank you for this message Thibault, even if I have few means I want to make a small donation, to continue to keep the site and the great values that you promote alive!
Thank you for this message Thibault, even if I have few means I want to make a small donation, to continue to keep the site and the great values that you promote alive!
Big thanks to everyone running this site and all the supporters!
Thanks for everything lichess, they are the best!😊
Thank you so much Lichess,you're always my favourite site and i always recommend all of my friends to play here
I meant 100M @chummer
Lichess i promise to you that whenever i will get a job i swear i will become a patron and will keep on supporting this site currently i am a student and i dont have money to donate but i swear as soon as i gets a job i will become a lichess patron and will always support this site sending loads of love to you Lichess i love you a lot Lichess sending you loads of love from India :)
big thanks to everyone making this possible! the cost to run this totally free are huge!! but we as a community can make it happen!
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