Hello fellow chess traveller! I was one of the first 100 on ICS, first helper on ICC, TD on FICS, ran 2 popular chess bots, wrote 100s of help files etc... Sadly I'm long over 100k games, I was around 80k when I left ICC :(
I feel similarly. I play mostly on Lichess but chess.com has features which I feel are easier to use, so I use both. I find this either/or discussion to be strange since both have their strengths and weaknesses. It's a pittance for anyone working in tech to support both, and the competition has largely been amazing for the improvement of both services.
It's interesting how 27 years ago the same type of drama happened, even when FICS (the free option at the time) was a carbon copy of ICC, AND you could connect to either with the same clients. Somehow people still found ways to say one was better than the other up until the point where they became sufficiently differentiated and the discussion largely stopped.
I feel similarly. I play mostly on Lichess but chess.com has features which I feel are easier to use, so I use both. I find this either/or discussion to be strange since both have their strengths and weaknesses. It's a pittance for anyone working in tech to support both, and the competition has largely been amazing for the improvement of both services.
It's interesting how 27 years ago the same type of drama happened, even when FICS (the free option at the time) was a carbon copy of ICC, AND you could connect to either with the same clients. Somehow people still found ways to say one was better than the other up until the point where they became sufficiently differentiated and the discussion largely stopped.