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When FICS was presented with this situation they use to have a "Mirror" where when someone told in channel 1, it would bounce or relay the message to the sister server. It was pretty interesting. When the sister server stopped getting logins the mirror disappeared. It was too bad that had to happen because I thought it was cool having both servers. More than likely the only way the servers would see each other is if there was packets shared between the two and the forums linked up. But considering the fact you probably won't have a big following, I am almost afraid it won't last long. You're fighting an up hill battle. I appreciate the idea and would probably log in.. But history has a indicator of this kind of issue. And history wasn't nice to EICS.

Good luck!

It is more logical and better for the community to help make v2 better with constructive criticism, or even help with the code by submitting pull requests, than trying to fork.

Issues with v2 aren't going to be resolved in a couple days. It may take weeks. Have some patience and help lichess website itself instead of looking to splinter it.

A fork is rarely a good idea, as I've witnessed in most of open source over the last 25 years. Always better to contribute.

A fork is usually a good idea if the software license changes from open source to some closed source or fake open source license. That isn't the case here.

All the complaints, feedback, and issues are known to the lichess team. Give it some time. Try to focus on the good things.

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@urbanski
Hi dude)). I have a question for you, you have developed a lot of free things for people)))? You are not even the patron of lichess.org/patron). You, as a developer, should understand that Thibault works for you = for free, it makes things that it considers beautiful and comfortable for yourself. He believes that 90 percent of this should be normal, 10% will leave the site, but the site is created for the future. New people will come who have not seen V1 and will love v2 as their own)).If you know what I mean. and if you want any changes, write thibault + attach $ 2,000 or more or less, I think it will be ready to compromise, correct and change what you would like. read here how much thibault works for us, you as a programmer should believe it. I am far from programming, but I understand that writing such a site is not a simple matter lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/donate-to-say-thanks-to-the-lichess-team#2 if you really want to help the site) you do it) and criticize - you don’t need a lot of mind)

#24 not a programmer and using so much nested parentheses ? You should give it a try :)

@Aprikose I understand both that this site is free, and that he does a lot of great work. As I said in the first post of this thread: I appreciate his work.

Still I do have right to my own opinion no matter how hard he works. And If new site is so good (which I believe so), It won't be hurt by having v1 elsewhere.

If it's so good. It will die soon (v1). So don't worry.

@urbanski There are many moderators on the site. I think their opinion is taken into account when creating a V2. Write what you want to help financially + prove that you are a good programmer and you can be accepted into the team, and you can change something in the future. But something seems to me that you are such a programmer - like I am a tankman) hahahaha

@Aprikose Well, man. All I want is to bring v1 for all of the people that have trouble using v2. Nothing else. No matter how good programmer I am, no matter how many lines of code I have written in my life or how many lines of code I have reviewed, there is no way I can "change something", that will result in bringing v1 for these people.

This is the whole point. I do not need to be a part of "the team", nor do I want. All I want is to give people (at least temporary), ability to use what they like.

Nothing else, nothing more.

And nice from you, that you care about my skills, but unfortunately for you, I do not need to prove you anything.

Cheers :)

Wish you luck.

I don't think you fully understand what you're getting into.

It is easy to talk about it on forums, much harder to do the work. I'd guess your hosted v1 never happens and if it does it will be dead within a couple of weeks due to lack of understanding of the work and time involved.

Is it an emotional decision you're making? It seems so a bit. Not logical at all, but if you want to be a big shot, have at it. We're waiting...

Actually that is the beauty of open source. There is always a room for improvement.
Look at Firefox and it is clones, vim and neovim, webmake and webpack an so on.
Here is how webpack came into being. github.com/medikoo/modules-webmake/issues/7
It is completely okay to clone an open source project.

In fact cloning or having an entirely new open source chess website is not a bad idea. But not sure, if it would be an easy task or successful.
Take look this:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CGgu-7aNxlZkjLl9l-OlL00fch06xp0Q7eCVDDakYEE/preview
Will people play on the new website ? I am not sure.
Here is a lichess clone for lidraughts.org/.

I personally don't have lots of problem with v2. It works better on my mobile. Although I dislike that the color white(#fff) is used with color #edebe9, which is too bright for my eyes. I prefer #eee .
But other than that it works okay.

If you do clone it. Make sure you share the source code. Good luck.