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Bringing bughouse to lichess??!

I think bughouse would become amazingly popular on this site and totally doable. Any thoughts?
So, what? Two random people against two random people? Seems a bit confused.
Not necessary random. They could play as a team, and have collective rating. Like in tennis or bitch-volleyball.
It is difficult to find one opponent. Now you guys want a variant where you need three opponents. It may take so long that some people will leave because it's allowed to play only one game at a time here.
Its been discussed multiple times not possible with the current lichess configuration.
Number of games per variant over the most active hour yesterday
http://i.imgur.com/x8Ji0P0.png

Variants have a history of not being popular.
It is not easily doable in any sense.

The impossibility refers to the fact that you can't find a developer who will do it all. If you then consider if you yourself you can do it, most will probably come to the same conclusion that it is quite impossible for them to do it.
Bughouse would be a very popular variant and you would have no trouble finding people to play. We could have a matchmaking system similar to what they have in Steam games. Rocket League is a game that has a similar matchmaking system that liChess could use for Bughouse.

We are in competition with chess.com and other sites. If we can get bughouse to work, we would be kicking their butts!
To everyone who thinks we wouldn't get enough people for matches just check out the Weekly Crazy house Tournament turnout. More than a couple hundred players and its growing very fast. As for developing; it would be very easy. I think its just a matter of getting some high level players on this site to promote the idea.

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