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Chess.com has been overloaded

they should delete accounts that havent been touched for a certain amount of time...
That doesn't really have any impact on anything. Plus, any accounts with games or content can't really be removed.

they should delete accounts that havent been touched for a certain amount of time...
It's the active users causing server overloads, not the inactive ones

they should delete accounts that havent been touched for a certain amount of time...
It's the active users causing server overloads, not the inactive ones
It's not usually that either.

they should delete accounts that havent been touched for a certain amount of time...
It's the active users causing server overloads, not the inactive ones
It's not usually that either.
what is then? Explain (I am a web programmer)

It's my understanding the site really isn't made for so many users at once. They need many millions more to fix it. Maybe this is also why lots of things on the site cost money now, and they are trying to find interesting ways to hook people in. A few years ago, it was just a normal site, and everything was free -- but it was way smaller, too. This was back in 2018-2019, I mean.
Too many people got into Chess 2020-2023 is the problem. They are now struggling to handle it. My guess is, some of them will quit by 2026-2027, and the site will run a bit smoother. But it does seem to be only ever gaining players and accounts!
Number of active members really isn't an issue. The site massively scaled the architecture and has changed a lot in the back-end to improve performance to handle loads. There's still additional work to improve further though.

what is then? Explain (I am a web programmer)
I don't think the full issue has been identified but seems to be related to an update causing unexpected issues and that is being rolled back.

OMG, this problem has been going on for *years*? Someone somewhere is egregiously incompetent.
Different problems; some caused by new code, some by changes to improve performance and load, sometimes DDoS attacks can cause issues.

what is then? Explain (I am a web programmer)
I don't think the full issue has been identified but seems to be related to an update causing unexpected issues and that is being rolled back.
I think there are features on this site that are too much resource consuming. But I don't know the architecture. Surely they must rethink something

OMG, this problem has been going on for *years*? Someone somewhere is egregiously incompetent.
Different problems; some caused by new code, done by changes to improve performance and load, sometimes DDoS attacks can cause issues.
I am a retired systems architect, and I repeat: server overloads going on periodically for years demonstrates incompetence.

OMG, this problem has been going on for *years*? Someone somewhere is egregiously incompetent.
Different problems; some caused by new code, done by changes to improve performance and load, sometimes DDoS attacks can cause issues.
I am a retired systems architect, and I repeat: server overloads going on periodically for years demonstrates incompetence.
Code and architecture is pretty consistently changing. Sometimes new code has unexpected issues.

since the overload, i cant see that i have notifs...
Others are seeing the same thing. Staff are aware and looking into it
Servers are always crashing nowadays