Is Lichess Inflated?

#10 Actually, that was Thibault who said that (#2), not Clarkey. But, anyway, point taken ^^

I could have made it clearer; I was referring to the post in Q&As Thibault gave the link to, unless they swap accounts?

My blitz rating in chess.com is 2387 and bullet 2501, which is even higher than in lichess.

No it is not Inflated compared to chess.com.

I depends on the comparism. Within the Internet, it doesn't seem to be inflated; I've had pretty similar ratings on other sites.

If you compare it to offline ELO (Or comparable data), the numbers are surely bigger on lichess or other sites. I'm close to 2k on lichess and I am at around 1500-1600 (maybe a bit more now) in offline tournaments (DWZ, not ELO though).

Having or not having bigger numbers without context doesn't mean anything though, if you don't have a reference. Having a certain number of points in chess is not defined anywhere, so it doesn't have an intrinsic value, if you do not mention, where this number exist.

Rating inflation only makes sense as a time derivative. Compared to earlier itself the average rating of a pool is rising. This is called inflation.

There is no spatial derivative because the absolute level of rating pools is chosen arbitrarily by the initial rating of the provisional player. The Glicko and the Elo system are both invariant under adding the same constant to every rating ( only the rating difference matters, the same rating difference means the same difference in winning chances no matter what the absolute levels are ).

The title of the topic is neither true nor untrue: it simply makes no sense.

Thank you for clarifying this.