My issue on chess.com is that I have frequent disconnects, which don't occur when I'm playing on lichess or playing online videogames.
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18 days ago
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#23
ChesscalatedQuickly wrote:
My issue on chess.com is that I have frequent disconnects, which don't occur when I'm playing on lichess or playing online videogames.
Other sites and games handle disconnects differently. One may allow longer to reconnect if it happens so it's less noticeable and another may have buffering to mitigate issues.
What it means is that the quality of the chess.com server is poor, otherwise I would also have frequent disconnects on lichess or when playing online video games.
17 days ago
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#25
ChesscalatedQuickly wrote:
What it means is that the quality of the chess.com server is poor, otherwise I would also have frequent disconnects on lichess or when playing online video games.
That's not actually accurate. Location of the datacenters/servers matter too. Only a small portion of the path your traffic takes from one site to another is shared and the traffic goes through different equipment on the way.
You're likely hitting regionally more local servers in the case of Lichess and the games you play. For here, you're connecting to the primary datacenter in the US.
FelixN2022 wrote:
There are so many problems on chess.com. This first post is just an introduction to this topic. I also want as many people to respond to this post. Also if chess.com locks this post then [removed -- MS] chess.com up. As I said this is just an introduction so I will end it here for now. Bye
How will chess.com pay their employees then?
Martin_Stahl wrote:
ChesscalatedQuickly wrote:
What it means is that the quality of the chess.com server is poor, otherwise I would also have frequent disconnects on lichess or when playing online video games.
That's not actually accurate. Location of the datacenters/servers matter too. Only a small portion of the path your traffic takes from one site to another is shared and the traffic goes through different equipment on the way.
You're likely hitting regionally more local servers in the case of Lichess and the games you play. For here, you're connecting to the primary datacenter in the US.
Well then chess.com should use more than one live server in US in order to improve server quality.
17 days ago
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#28
ChesscalatedQuickly wrote:
Well then chess.com should use more than one live server in US in order to improve server quality.
It's not the number of servers, it's the path the traffic takes.
The site is working in a more distributed server infrastructure so players will connect to one closer geographically, which should improve lag for most members. Over 50% of games are already being played on that network and in the near future all games should be.
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