Takes much longer to start game on Chess.com

I usually play 15|10 rapid time controls on Chess.com which is the most popular rapid time control on there.
I noticed that my chessup2 board takes a very long time to find a partner when i try to start a game, sometimes it will take minutes and sometimes it won’t find any match and give up.
If i open my chess.com phone app and start a game on there it usually finds a partner within several seconds.

We are rolling out a fix for this ASAP. It is a recent issue and will be fixed very soon.

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With most recent update, it seems like it works better, but periodically still takes a long time to start a game

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I’m having this issue today. Sits for a couple of mins with no game starting.

If it does find a game, I’ve then had a couple of games start, no move appear from the opponent and then the game is abandoned.

Seems like a new issue from the latest update as it wasn’t a problem before.

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Same here. Super long time for a game to start.. and actually I haven’t been able to get it to start a game because I thought it was broken. I can play that chesscom bots just fine.

I had to try 3 times to play a bot and the 3rd time it looked like it was ready , but after my 1st move as white , it didnt reply and i had to shut down the board as it wouldn’t let me resign either

Yep, having the same issue. Game starts but the 1st opponent move is never registered on the board, though I can play on the chesscom app.
Happens randomly

Bot game fixes are coming ASAP.

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