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*SERIOUS ISSUE* Correspondence playing bugs and problems. *EMERGENCY*

I started to play many games by correspondence.

At this moment it is 367 games:
en.lichess.org/@/Nonpareil/playing

But when scrolling down to the bottom of the list, I can only reach 321 game.
There is no way to access remaining 46 games, as auto-switch has a limit of 100 games. I have no links to that games, and they will be lost by timeout.
And through profile can't get them as well - those games are now overwritten by new ones.
en.lichess.org/@/Nonpareil

Had lichess developers overlooked this possible situation when somebody start many games (300+)?

Can you please fix that soon?
What I'm going to do instead is limit the number of concurrent games one can start.
Is it constructive, Thibault?
I mean there's nothing bad if one wants to play many games.
Maybe you really need to put some limit (for technical server reasons)? Then I feel like 1000 games is reasonable limit.
It doesn't seem very reasonable to play more than 300 correspondence chess games at once.
Why you think so, Messy?
300 games / 14 days (your time move) + 5-6 days (average time of your opponent move) / move = 300/20=15 moves per day. Consider half of them usually are easy moves (opening moves or forced retake move) After final computations we have not really a big number of moves, 5-10 per day.
In 1988, Stan Vaughan played 1,124 correspondence games at once.
In 1948, Robert Whller of Hillsboro, California played 1,001 corresponence games at once.
I seem this problem as uneccessary. 90% of lichess players do not play correspondence, and of those 99.9999% do not play 300+ games. This is not a serious problem, but a serious clickbate. Thibault will change the site to cater to everyone's needs.

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