[loungin]

I worked for a bit for chess.com. Your assumption about "bottom-of-the-barrel" Indian devs is heartless and also incorrect. Be better please.

[zionic]

Hiring devs who are bottom of the barrel and located in India (super low CoL) =/= claiming all Indian devs are bottom of the barrel.

Please try not to jump to racism accusations immediately, it makes the world a worse place. It even goes directly against the rules here at HN, where you are instructed to take the best interpretation of someone’s comment.

[PieUser]

But they deliberately chose to point out "Indians" and "Westerners", using a subpar adjective for the former. What gives? Sounds like casual racism to me.

[dabei]

You are right logically. However given the amount of confusion in this thread surely you can see a lot of people _feel_ offended. It’s worth thinking about how to avoid such ambiguity in the future.

[W0lf]

I interpret OP‘s comment rather as an intersection, not a union of the targeted dev group. Your last sentence however sounds passive aggressive to me, which I rather don’t want to read here on HN

[nextaccountic]

This just means Chess.com outspends Lichess by an even larger margin.