What are the features you are looking forward to the most?

[ez4u]

Guest log in so I can see what it looks like.

[oren]

They have a movie here.

http://kaya.gs/kayags/project.php

[Tami]

For me, the priorities would be:

1) Understandable ratings and rankings (done)
2) Effective escaper policy
3) Rich information in your profile (current version not bad, but could be better)
4) Review tools
5) Voiced byo yomi
6) Scalable board and other windows
7) Button for making audio Malkovich comments (it is distracting though fun to type during a game)
8) Possibility of video and audio communication a la Skype
9) Call 911 Button for screenshotting bad language or offensive behaviour (as on Dashn)
10) Built-in statistics (such as found in KGS Analytics)

Other things that would be cool for me would be:

* Ability to display a national flag by your avatar
* Houses and go clubs with inter-house competitions
* Filespace for writing journals and notes, with possibility of sharing if you like

That's all for now!

The Alpha has been getting progressively more and more fun to play on. Fischer time works quite well for go, although I *still* manage to get into time trouble, and I adore the malkovich command - it is really helpful to compare my impressions of the game at the time with what actually happened, and it is so interesting to read the other player's comments, too.

[Kaya.gs]

Guest log in so I can see what it looks like.

They have a movie here.
http://kaya.gs/kayags/project.php

The movie is so old already. The best feature in that movie is sandboxes, which are have been completely neglected. We should fix them soon.

guest accounts aren't coming anytime soon, but if we truly work on sandboxes, you will be able to share a game with someone not logged in in the server. That was the original idea at least.

For me, the priorities would be:

1) Understandable ratings and rankings (done)
2) Effective escaper policy
3) Rich information in your profile (current version not bad, but could be better)
4) Review tools
5) Voiced byo yomi
6) Scalable board and other windows
7) Button for making audio Malkovich comments (it is distracting though fun to type during a game)
8) Possibility of video and audio communication a la Skype
9) Call 911 Button for screenshotting bad language or offensive behaviour (as on Dashn)
10) Built-in statistics (such as found in KGS Analytics)

Other things that would be cool for me would be:

* Ability to display a national flag by your avatar
* Houses and go clubs with inter-house competitions
* Filespace for writing journals and notes, with possibility of sharing if you like

Very complete list! Maybe we can use the audios you provided with fischer too. We are definitely missing showing more about the time left. There is currently not a no-sound solution either (we should do some flashing or the sort).
This does remind me we could use some audios with "one minute left"and "5 minutes left" like wbaduk. If you can make some, maybe we can push audio for 0.8.

The vast majority of the features mentioned here are under-way, it will just take time to build all of them, while also shrikning the tweaki and adding other features.

Great topic! Congratulations to the guy that started this thread.

[oiseaux]

For me, the priorities would be:

1) Understandable ratings and rankings (done)
2) Effective escaper policy
3) Rich information in your profile (current version not bad, but could be better)
4) Review tools
5) Voiced byo yomi
6) Scalable board and other windows
7) Button for making audio Malkovich comments (it is distracting though fun to type during a game)
8) Possibility of video and audio communication a la Skype
9) Call 911 Button for screenshotting bad language or offensive behaviour (as on Dashn)
10) Built-in statistics (such as found in KGS Analytics)

Other things that would be cool for me would be:

* Ability to display a national flag by your avatar
* Houses and go clubs with inter-house competitions
* Filespace for writing journals and notes, with possibility of sharing if you like

Great suggestions. I would also like to chime in with support with:

* Rank graphs
* Analytics ala KGS Analytics
* Country flag

But really, I think the most important thing for me as a user at alpha stage is that you focus on making the core elements of the experience really solid, responsive and reliable. This can be disappointing for people who aren't savvy on software development because they want to see features, features, features but then complain when a UI button doesn't do what it should.

With that in mind, would the developers appreciate screenshots with my annotated comments on UX, UI and IA? I would be happy to give a detailed analysis.

[Kaya.gs]

For me, the priorities would be:

1) Understandable ratings and rankings (done)
2) Effective escaper policy
3) Rich information in your profile (current version not bad, but could be better)
4) Review tools
5) Voiced byo yomi
6) Scalable board and other windows
7) Button for making audio Malkovich comments (it is distracting though fun to type during a game)
8) Possibility of video and audio communication a la Skype
9) Call 911 Button for screenshotting bad language or offensive behaviour (as on Dashn)
10) Built-in statistics (such as found in KGS Analytics)

Other things that would be cool for me would be:

* Ability to display a national flag by your avatar
* Houses and go clubs with inter-house competitions
* Filespace for writing journals and notes, with possibility of sharing if you like

Great suggestions. I would also like to chime in with support with:

* Rank graphs
* Analytics ala KGS Analytics
* Country flag

But really, I think the most important thing for me as a user at alpha stage is that you focus on making the core elements of the experience really solid, responsive and reliable. This can be disappointing for people who aren't savvy on software development because they want to see features, features, features but then complain when a UI button doesn't do what it should.

With that in mind, would the developers appreciate screenshots with my annotated comments on UX, UI and IA? I would be happy to give a detailed analysis.

What kind of comments do you want to give? In any case, all feedback is appreciated and i assure you we will look into whatever you send.

I read in the chat that you are a developer and would like to contribute somehow. Call my(conanbatt) attention next time you are in the server, and we can talk.

[Tofu]

Hi. I just signed up and after playing a game have some things I'd like to see.

1. Lots of teaching/review tools. Similar to KGS. Especially the ability to do audio voice reviews.

2. Statistics. Game records and graphs.

3. More time settings

Congratulations! I think you guys have made tremendous progress, and I'm looking forward to playing on Kaya hopefully for many many years.

[keysersoze]

I'm not sure, it may well be that these features already exist on kayags but i'm going to ask anyway.
1. One-color go.
2. 17 stones survival go.
Got any of these?

[Kaya.gs]

I'm not sure, it may well be that these features already exist on kayags but i'm going to ask anyway.
1. One-color go.
2. 17 stones survival go.
Got any of these?

ah! Mini games. I was talking to pato about this yesterday , i totally forgot about the survival game.

We dont have those although they are in the development plan. You can figure they are pretty low prio though .

These should be added to the minigames feature suggestionon uservoice.

[keysersoze]

I'm sorry, are you saying you're gonna put them to that uservoice or do i have to do it? Cause in the latter case i have no idea where that uservoice is...
I do understand that these mini games are below the rating system and escaper policy but i honestly believe that hundreds of people in the go community would welcome them. Even pros and inseis have fun with them i hear;)

[Kaya.gs]

I'm sorry, are you saying you're gonna put them to that uservoice or do i have to do it? Cause in the latter case i have no idea where that uservoice is...
I do understand that these mini games are below the rating system and escaper policy but i honestly believe that hundreds of people in the go community would welcome them. Even pros and inseis have fun with them i hear;)

http://kaya.uservoice.com/forums/130479 ... mini-games

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