Why is Chess.com growing so quickly?

That's incorrect.

Population growth is an exponential function, if only for brief periods of time. With more humans in general, there will be more chess players in general.

Heh.

But more seriously, there have already been blogs about this. It's not hard to understand that as the general public becomes more aware of chess, more people will try playing. There have been multiple recent events that have exposed the general public to chess.

Chess.com exponential growth in such a short period of time has in fact outpaced actual interest in chess. 

Twitter experienced the same thing with daily usage numbers but was interest in Twitter suddenly increasing for no apparent reason at all?  

Followers, subscribers, etc don't mean anything unless the actual numbers are delved into and the reason for increased traffic are understood.  As it stands, chess.com merely says its "something" unknown.  some mysterious reason unspoken and unrevealed 

But what is really driving the massive increase in daily use?  What if there is more to it than just interest over time.  

Nope.

You can, for example, compare the increase of average daily people in live chess to the increase of views on gotham's videos, or to the google analytics posted earlier.

What if you're a bored kid who doesn't make very interesting arguments?

That does not support an argument for exponential growth on chess.com with regard to daily use numbers.  

Population growth takes time and understood variables in the increase is possible because of known conditions and timeframes.  for example, you can't increase a human number in a day.  it takes months to create a new human and that process is known.

Unlike Chess.com, where that process is unknown and the numbers are increasing exponentially without explanation.  without anything going on in chess.

There are no significant events exposing anyone to chess.  search online chess. no one is talking about it.  no one is looking to get good at it...  no one beyond the same actual numbers as before.  yet chess.com user daily traffic has increased so much.  Why?  

And why isn't chess.com looking into it more.  because it doesn't seem to know what is driving the exponential daily use increase and causing its servers to crash and fail.  Isn't that something that chess.com should be looking into more seriously.  

As I said before, Twitter had a massive increase in daily use and "users" but what was really driving the increase in daily use on Twitter?  Was it that people were suddenly taking an interest in posting random thoughtless comments online?  Did Grandma suddenly start posting comments about Donald Trump or did Grandpa suddenly want to post comments about his golf game to people he didn't know.  

If you believe that then I have an igloo in montana to sell you & you will take the igloo in mid july when it will be ready for you to move in. 

Irrelevant.

Bored kids usually make the best arguments, especially if he/she takes the time to research the truth and provide actual numbers to substantiate points rather than worthless graphs with meaningless trend lines 

User data in terms of daily use only provide the simple snap shot but doesn't explain whats causing it.  that takes actual research and it is important for real companies to know this information.  If you were investing in ads or investing in a company wouldn't you need to know what the purported increased daily use numbers are based on?  shouldn't there be a substantiated argument made to justify exponential growth?

You can't just say oh its something but we don't know what it is or we are unwilling to say.  no no no... no one buys that at all.  

I wish Elon would take over chess.com and clean house.  I believe he would provide us with clear answers about daily use numbers and the exponential growth trend supposedly taking place on chess.com.  Even though there is nothing happening in chess.  

very relevant... 

what is the mass event driving up the numbers so much?  NOTHING

Take a look around you... NOTHING IS HAPPENING IN CHESS

No news. no events. nothing.

yet you all want to pretend that everyone is interested in chess right now?  explain that.

why don't you ask chess.com

A few weeks ago I was assistant TD at a scholastic event (school team competition but also individual prizes). It was the largest they'd ever had. Teachers talked about how their chess clubs were larger. Some were looking for coaches since they were just teachers who didn't know much about chess and they suddenly had 40 kids showing up.

Pretty much sums it up.

edit

Also OP blocked the last few people who replied (including me) which is funny... trolls usually like attention, so maybe OP is actually crazy.

“anyone who gets interested in chess because of Andrew Tate is pretty much an outlier.  as i stated before, if your main driver of interest is someone who is the pariah of females in a world where half the population is female, then you don't really have a driver.“ You’re hilarious dude you’re either a troll or ignorant af… either way the fact you can’t see or accept the reason new people are coming into ches is hilarious… you just deny what’s in front of you then go on a rant… cringe… 

largest they had is meaningless

you could have an event with 40 people and that is still meaningless in the grand scheme of things because that doesn't really prove anything.  

If you have a population of 1 million than 40 people showing up for an event isn't exactly monumental.  

I believe that my arguments are sound and correct....

I have yet to hear a well supported counter argument to my points