[iliekcomputers]

I'm not sure I completely understand. They say that the only thing that was affected was the tournament because its events needed to be processed synchronously, but I remember the entire site being unavailable for people. Was that unrelated?

On a side note, huge props to Lichess, the fact that they can compete with chess.com which has so many resources behind it is very impressive. Everyone who plays chess should consider becoming a patron.

[Santosh83]

During the first crash immediately after the initial start of the tournament, the entire site did indeed go offline for a few minutes. Even address resolution failed. Then things went smoothly for about an hour after which the 2nd crash came. This one just seemed to affect the particular tournament (participants couldn't get fresh pairings) while the rest of the site was still working, as the article mentions.

[iliekcomputers]

Ah I see. That makes sense.

Would be interesting to know what caused the entire site to go down in the beginning. Wonder if it was just too much traffic.