Is it worth it to play on "Chess.com"?

So i just recently try to find other places to play Chess, and I've been heard about Chess.com since long time ago but i have no courage to play in there, so i choose this site instead (which is i also rarely played on here), so i need discuss with community "Is it worth it to play on Chess.com/?", also lately i heard many stigma that exist on Chess.com such a "Money Laundering" also they will just think about Money only from membership that paid to Chess.com (Capitalist), terrible Fair Play System, terrible Security System (Because there's cases someone account get hacked), and worst i've ever heard is that half of money from paid membership will be sent to some Religion Cult, which is kinda disturbing.

So, should i open the Chess.com accounts so i could feel play in other Platform as well, not just on lichess, or decide to keep in here due to all stigma that i mentions in above? so need discuss it.

Well, you don't have to pay anything to chess.com, I don't but play there sometimes, so I guess its "worth it". Honestly, as superior as Lichess is in many ways, free chess.com *is* superior to Lichess in a few limited ways. Correspondence chess is better, because it has separate ratings and Lichess doesn't. The forums are a lot more active. Chess.com's coverage of GM tournaments is awesome. Lichess's puzzle stuff is pretty good, but Chess.com's is really fun too. There is zero waiting for standard chess using any of the pre-set time controls for bullet, blitz or rapid.

Ignoring the site doesn't make sense. Lichess' management team is not offended by someone acknowledging that chess.com still does a few limited things better. For example, Lichess knows they can't compete with chess.com's coverage of gm tournaments, because that costs real money, and they dont want to charge us.

If you're not prepared to pay for at least the platinum membership, chess dot com is worse than Lichess. But you can try it free anyway.

As someone who started out with Chess.com and switched to use Lichess as my main site (i still play the occasional game on chess.com though), in my opinion Lichess does almost everything that Chess.com does, but better and for free.

I think Lichess is more userfriendly/easy to use, not as bloated with distractions, runs smoother/faster, their features actually work all the time (i've had lots of issues with chess.com premium features not working properly, such as the openings section, simple things like player game statistics etc) and i find their analyse option and statistics to be better than Chess.coms. Sure you dont get the fancy colours or names like "BRILLIANT MOVE!!" but the actual UI for analysing and going over games is superior, in my opinion.

Edit: The Lichess study, insights and great statistics feature are the reason why i started to play on Lichess instead, and everything else is what made me stay and love it even more.

Also, chess.coms constant "buy our premium"-messages, the "Suggested opponent for game" nagging spam is mildly infuriating...

I don't mean to say that Lichess is bad or something but I guess my chess has really improved after playing on chess.com

Unlimited puzzles and analysis here is the reason I have switched from chess.com to Lichess lately.

One thing I don't don't like on chess.com is that you cannot select any game of your choice in online games; you enter your criterias, wait and hope a game will start soon according to them. Here on Lichess, if you wait too long, you can select one other game in wait.

Even with a diamond membership I still play on lichess. The raving Game review feature isn't anything that special as analysing with the computer won't really improve your calculation or understanding. Brilliant and great moves are just ego boosters as c.c will literally label anything as a great move. C.c does up lichess on the puzzles and the lessons. The player pool on c.c is a bit toxic though nothing anyone can't handle.

@Rhine_Dottir said in #1:
> So i just recently try to find other places to play Chess, and I've been heard about Chess.com since long time ago but i have no courage to play in there, so i choose this site instead (which is i also rarely played on here), so i need discuss with community "Is it worth it to play on Chess.com/?", also lately i heard many stigma that exist on Chess.com such a "Money Laundering" also they will just think about Money only from membership that paid to Chess.com (Capitalist), terrible Fair Play System, terrible Security System (Because there's cases someone account get hacked), and worst i've ever heard is that half of money from paid membership will be sent to some Religion Cult, which is kinda disturbing.
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> So, should i open the Chess.com accounts so i could feel play in other Platform as well, not just on lichess, or decide to keep in here due to all stigma that i mentions in above? so need discuss it.

if you want to go to a pay to win system, you are free, but there is no point in going to this type of site. Tactics are free on Lichess and unlimited. on the other, it's 3 free per day unless you pay.
on Lichess, insight is free. you can analyze anyone's games on Lichess and the Arena system is much better here. so unless you want to waste your money, it's useless

This seems basically just like another Lichess vs chesscom thread, which there have been too many of