Lichess: is it really that nonprofit?

The OP is either 5-years-old, drunk, high, or retarded. (Occam's Razor.)

Danny Rensch? Is that you?

TBH I couldnt care less if @thibault pays himself 300K per day.

As long as lichess runs how it should he can be the next Bill Gates for all I care.

You r crazy if you think the head of any NPO doesn't get a salary.

How would NPOs succeed if not only were they a non for profit org but also anyone who ran them did so purely out of the goodness of their heart. One does have to eat and take care of their own.

Churches are NPOs. Ever seen a preachers car? Lel.

I think the author of this topic is Erik (CEO of chess.com) : he is jealous that Thibault can make an almost equally good site than his with so little money :p

@startstek he made a BETTER site than his with so little money.

Reading this again and again I have only one picture in mind, SCNR.

http://lustich.de/bilder/cartoons/es-gibt-immer-ein-arschloch/

(Translation: No matter where you are, there's always an a...! )

As long as everything is free and website get money only via donations, it's non profit. PERIOD!

I discovered this website only some weeks ago and decided to donate, because it was fast, stable and with a lot of features. I hope it will become even better in the future. Great job!

P.S.
This captcha variation is cool! Love it!

Yes. As per your founding minutes. Access the link to read in full. lichess.org/about

Interesting business idea though: move yourself to a holiday-destination where the sun shines all day and marihuana is cheap. Create a site. Find some fans (or please the international anti-commerce community and hope that the community is not busy ruining private property during some demo against whatever..) and shout out: We are completely free. But feel free to donate. Your donations back our fight vs. commerce (and pay our pina-coladas in Thailand). If you do not like that the owner pays his pina-coladas through your donated money, you should consider that in the commercial world he could make 5 times the money (but of course we reject commerce and by the way: who wants to get up at 7 a. m. every morning? according to his twitter profile-pic, Thibault for sure not..)

At the end of the day it's the same story like on any commercial chess site: we need your money to run the site and make a nice living. The only difference: the donation-appoach is more sophisticated. Always a good sell among leftists.

by the way: who is responsible for the ugly naming? Lichess sounds like the official web site of the north korean central chess committee.

No, no, no.

With a commercial I site I have no option to use every feature free and ad free.

This is a real difference.

Not to mention this site is better than existing commercial sites.

Light weight and simple, a beauty in programming terms.