Rise and fall of chess.com

I thought we had more time.!

thats just the way life is....

you live and sleep and play a few chess games and suddenly a our galaxies are colliding into each other; combining nebulas are created a burst of toxic radiation

and you don't even get the miserly 4 billion lifeaspan of ones very own star.

life sucks too bad to think about chess.com right now.

I'm going to go put for a millenia.  let me know if anything better than these dull trolls decide to post....

Actually, the account as a whole has been disabled: that guy opens a new account, posts extensive and abusive user notes on other people's profiles accusing them of cheating and much worse, closes the account and then moves on to the next one. For all his disaffection with Chess.com, he seems curiously unable to stop himself from coming back here to play, lose, and accuse his opponents of cheating. His content and any accounts he leaves open get deleted on sight.

On a slightly separate note, Chess.com does have its own internal reports covering similar ground as in that Alexa report, and we're actually very pleased with the reinvigoration of the site that V3 has ushered in; it's probably not just V3, but initiatives like the PRO Chess League and the Chess.com Speed Championship, but it's certainly been encouraging.

<Kingofshedinjas> #22 - well yes, it's definitely for the better!

I don't take those statistics as a sign that Rome is burning.  Although I don't have access to Alexa.com's upgraded statistics, I was not able to see any freebie data on what percentage of users are accessing the site through mobile apps versus laptops and desktops.  To me, the statistics that you are seeing as negative simply reflect the growth of the accessibility of chess.com.  As more and more people across the globe are able to log on for a couple minutes here and there (say, to play a quick 3/0 on their phone in between classes or on a lunch break) I would expect those trends to continue.  Right now, chess.com would be the 66th most populous country in the world.  (17,304,300 members at the time of this writing.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_(United_Nations))  It's tough for me to see the site declining in the short-to-medium term.

@David

I just wander (not so much about the collision of a galaxy...)

but whether Chess.com see's more promise in chat /blogs/ articles....

I notice ChessTV is a happening place-- and there are generally more people posing on that chat then here.  so 

do you Think in the future you guys will extend ChessTV programming to a 24/7 thing ?  perhaps highlighting the pro-games.

ofc, the future. its hard to predict.

Sounds like the typical live chess player.

You all are wasting time speculating about galaxies colliding.

Earth is flat, galaxies are smaller than the Moon and they are all fixed in the firmament or floating in the outer space.

There are plenty of evidencies and proofs of flat Earth.

One evidence: the chess board: IT IS FLAT AS EARTH. If Earth was round, chess was created in a round board.

This is what you play --> related to flat Earth:

THIS IS WHAT YOU DO NOT PLAY ---> because Earth is NOT ROUND ---> evidence.

Going back to the theme of this topic:

Chess.com should go public and make an IPO in Nasdaq.

This is the reason:

http://www.worthofweb.com/website-value/www.chess.com/

COME ON ERIK, MAKE THE CHESS.COM IPO IN NASDAQ!!!