[ycombinete]

> I have subscriptions to both

I'm not sure how you have a subscription to Lichess when it's a free site. Do you donate?

> My Elo rank on lichess is a full 500 points higher on lichess than chess.com

The ratings difference on lichess is arbitrary. Everyone starts higher (1500 vs 1200), so the average is higher.

> For me games are far easier and quicker to setup with chess.com

Unless I've missed something on chess.com this makes no sense at all.

_To create a game on Chess.com:_

1. load site

2. hover over Play in the sidebar

3. click either New Game or Play (which one?)

4. Select time-control from a matrix (if you click on New Game it defaults to 10 minutes time control; if you click on Play it defaults to 1 minute).

5. click on Play to initiate search

_To create a game on Lichess:_

1. Load site

2. Select time-control from a matrix. search initiates immiediately

[matsemann]

> > I have subscriptions to both

> I'm not sure how you have a subscription to Lichess when it's a free site. Do you donate?

It's a sign they have actually not used Lichess, and just writing FUD.

[bananamerica]

The setup is not that relevant, what is relevant is how long it takes to get a match. And chess.com is much quicker at that.

[ycombinete]

I disagree, the time it takes to start searching for a match is part of how long it takes to get a match.

I’m assuming that you’re either very high or very low rated, because in the middle of the bell curve I find matches almost instantly on Lichess.

[bananamerica]

I do have a very low rating. When I create my account I started way up there, though.

[HWR_14]

I think when you click "Play", Chess.com starts a new game with the previous game parameters. So, if you always play the same game, it's faster.

[Closi]

> I'm not sure how you have a subscription to Lichess when it's a free site

A subscription can just be an account - it doesn’t necessarily have to be a paid subscription.

[ycombinete]

That's weird, I've only ever used "subscription" as per this definition[0]:

"A subscription is an amount of money that you pay regularly in order to belong to an organization, to help a charity or campaign, or to receive copies of a magazine or newspaper."

[0] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/subscri...

[f1refly]

I get what you mean and I think the other guy was indeed misleading about this, but there really are lots of contexts where subscriptions are free. In the classic postal sense newsletters are mostly free (and yes, mostly spam), when a program "subscribes" for events from another program there isn't cost involved; and most importantly youtube channel subscriptions exist.

I also had the impression he implied paying for lichess, but technically the word subscription doesn't necessarily have that meaning in our current time any more.

[ycombinete]

Understood. I must be using it more pedantically than most. I think I use "sign-up/register/account" in those newer contexts.

[kzrdude]

Youtube has a subscribe button, and there is no money involved.

[9935c101ab17a66]

The most commonly used meaning of “subscription” is literally “the action of making or agreeing to make an advance payment in order to receive or participate in something.” And if the original commenter didn’t mean to be misleading and meant they had free accounts on both services, why mention having a “subscription” at all? It’s completely irrelevant.

[ylyn]

No, then you would just say you have an account.

If you subscribe to a YT channel, you would just say you subscribe to the channel or you are a subscriber. You wouldn't say you have a "subscription" with the channel. That makes no sense.

[0xFF0123]

This is way beyond the original point being made, but in the YT app, the button to view channels that a user has subscribed to is indeed labelled "subscriptions".

I agree that in this context, the natural interpretation of the word is that money has been invested.