How do websites like chess.com become popular?
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Feb 22, 2026
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Good advertising, good game developers, creativity, effort, time, a skilled team of developers with ~5 years of experience, planning, good artists, a high budget, and luck.
Feb 22, 2026
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#4
this site is only popular because of good early marketing and having a simple url
Feb 22, 2026
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MasonEx wrote:
this site is only popular because of good early marketing and having a simple url
advertising might also be one more factor
Feb 22, 2026
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#8
but in years like 2012,2016 and 2023,2025 chess.com was not very popular
Feb 22, 2026
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#9
BillByronFan wrote:
Bruh advertising=marketing in this context
well sometimes you can see ads on yt
Feb 22, 2026
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im saying its not only advertising they also added new features that why there are lot of people on chess.com
Feb 22, 2026
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#15
Ads are marketing, but marketing isn’t ads.
Like a square and polygon.
Like a square and polygon.
Feb 22, 2026
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Life Review (2025)
Play Coach (June 2025)
Courses (Oct 2025
here are some btw
Feb 22, 2026
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#17
Frequent updates make the game better, but don’t affect a site’s popularity.
Feb 22, 2026
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Sp3ctr4LV01D wrote:
Ads are marketing, but marketing isn’t ads.
Like a square and polygon.
Like a square and polygon.
ok now I get it ads are marketing that's what confused me
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