Is it better to Chess.com or Lichess.org?

The reason I prefer chess.com is that the graphics in the app are far superior. With lichess there's like a delay on every move, and the sound is unrealistic. JMO.

Nope, I wouldn't ... I'm just sharing my own experience.  In fact, you always can find answers like yours on both chess platforms. After playing thousands of games on Lichess and much less here, that's what I think. Regards.

Yes, you're right, sometimes there's a problem with the lag for both sides (Europe vs Australia, for instance). In that case, the game is unplayable for both. The matter is that I've got a 1Gb symmetric Internet and sometimes, playing with high lag users, is a clear disadvantage. Regards.

been trying to find this gif since forever but anyways still a pretty cool one

#b4dalock

I'm at the Lichess database page every day, and also at the Lichess Elite database page every day, but it's probably been a few months since I've actually been to Lichess itself. FWIW, their GUI is significantly improved with the Prettier Lichess Chrome extension.

I mean what were you banned for lol

Pros and cons I've seen from other people's discussions about this(not necessarily my opinions though.) I hope this is somewhat unbiased.

Chess.com:

Pros:

Better support team

Better forums

More users, so you can match up quicker.

And if you like variants, I believe chess.com has more variants than lichess.

Cons:

Paywalls

Ads

Limited puzzles/analysis/many other features

Lichess:

Pros:

Is free

No ads

Unlimited puzzles/many other features

Stockfish and other features such as studies.

Cons:

Said to have a slow/non-acting and somewhat toxic support team (I believe one user mentioned thibault messaging them something rude after they contacted support, though I don't remember what)

Worse forums

Less users.

TLDR: chess.com has paywalls, but a better support team, forums, and more users, and lichess is free, with plenty of features chess.com doesn't have, with a worse, sometimes toxic and slow support team, worse forums and less users.

Essentially, it boils down to if you prefer a better community or better chess tools. And of course it depends on what you think about the whole paywall/no paywalls aspect.

I like lichess for all the free resources and I enjoy doing puzzles on there but because of the high elo rating starts, you don't really get paired with people in your level. I do like to play games on chess com, I'm at least playing with the same lower rating as me lmao. 

It's basically the same. The ratings at Lichess are inflated. I see what you mean, though. When you first get there you have to start at 1500, which is maybe 1200 on chesscom. It takes about fifteen games to level off. From my own experience, ~700 on chesscom is ~1000 on Lichess.

Chess analysis is more efficient and graphic lighter in liches imo.

My rating is way higher on chess.com so chess.com is better

Chess.com does not pruport the idea that the moon is 51km wide and its surface a phospherized aether of krypton. Hmmm! 

This is a never-ending question.  Both are ok, I've got accounts on the two servers. Lichess ratings are a couple of hundred points higher, but chess.com uses Glicko and lichess.org Glicko 2. But that point is useless, I mean, both are fake points in a fake rating, just for internal use. It doesn't matter if you've got 1700 / 1900 or whatever. 

The real issue is the act of cheating. Both servers are fully occupied by laggers, sandbaggers, switch laggers, and cheaters. It's pretty annoying and very disappointing. Regards.

Both are fine, Lichess is better for your own analysis, because it's free and better, easier to go by. Also Lichess database is pure gold. But for me, personally, chess.com is prettier to play on. 

I do not have an opinion on this.

Chess.com 👍

It depends when you were playing those websites.

I personally prefer Greg from down the street's chess board