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Open feortial opened 3 years ago

feortial commented 3 years ago

Hi! On lichess.org i can set on my profile flag of European Union, 2 variants of belorussian flags (white-red-white and official) for example, and another non-country flags. Can you add please a Soviet Union flag. I see another posts, where you say that you in non-political, but we have 2 variants of belorussian flags, 1 is official and 1 is opposition used. In that logic, we have actually official flag of Belarus and previus flag of Belarus. Can we have also previus flag of Russia - Soviet Union flag? It's actually not that hard political. I'm not asking to add a nazi flag for example. I want to have a flag like European Union (something unifying for CIS countries with memory of great soviet chess school) but Soviet Union, despite the fact that it does not exist (belarus white-red-white also non official). Just why if we have 2 Belorrusian flags we can't have a USSR flag?

Cubox commented 3 years ago

Given the history of conflict about flags on lichess, I'm pretty sure this will never happen.

VelociraptorRex commented 3 years ago

@Cubox, any additional information? To be honest, I am against all non-country flags on Lichess because quite often I am interested where is my opponent from and I get Pirate, Rainbow etc. But if Lichess have them then I see no problem to add USSR flag for those who likes Soviet chess school, for example.

TheMadSword commented 1 year ago

To make things easier, why not give flags .png that you want added that are in the same format of the one already present ?

Also I think that since we already have the EU which is an union of countries, adding the CIS flag instead of the USSR flag would maybe make more sense @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Commonwealth_of_Independent_States , as well as be less political ? (I don't know to which extent it is used though)