"GO DEEPER"

Depth limit is imo much more useful than a time limit. If you let an engine calculate for 30s you will get evaluations similar to what you see on chessbomb. In many positions they are worthless.

#7 is right. Depth of 99 is often not required and going that deep locally on every move analyzed would be quite strenuous on your CPU. It's very nice to have it as an option, but making it locked-on would not be a good idea, for reasons explained.

I personally like the way it is, where it's going to do a relatively shallow analysis unless I explicitly ask it to churn away.

Thanks to the devs for adding this awesome feature!

Okay, you guys convinced me. Thanks for sharing your opinions!

I'm experiencing a problem with this..... when I click "Go deeper", the search will start, but after a while (it varies), the depth goes back to 10 or so, "Stockfish 8 NATIVE" changes to "Stockfish ASMJS" and the search speed drops from 1000s of kn/s to 100s. Any reason why this might be happening?

I saw that happen once as well.

There seems to be a new feature called "infinite analysis" in the hamburger menu, which removes the depth limit. Thanks thibault :).

#11 I don't at all understand your opinion, even not what you mean. When I run a standalone stockfish there is no disadvantage by letting it go deeper and deeper abd sometimes it finds significantly better moves.

#1 I agree with this. Why doesn't it go deeper and deeper until you switch it off. If it doesn't consume lichess server resources I see no problem with it.

#11 What do you mean with this?
"evaluations similar to what you see on chessbomb"

When I run a standalone Stocfish or houdini the evaluations don't differ when you search longer in another way than being based on more calculations and better.