My favourite colour is blue!

I have never played on OGS, so perhaps my opinions are entirely irrelevant. But I did use the OGS website a lot, because there were interesting games there, especially Uberdude's. OGS was a beautifully designed website, at least for the purpose of observing other's games; easy to look at, easy to navigate, well-suited to the game of Go and the way we tend to comment up our games afterwards.

As it stands, I would have loved to see the archived games from some other live server receive the visual presentation that OGS gives its games. Instead we get OGS giving all of its games to the second-ugliest Go server (after DGS). I don't want to go wild criticizing Nova.gs because it's a new server and I'm sure they had many other things to take care of: copying the visual "feel" of the server from Yahoo or FlyOrDie is not a move that I would have expected from Go players, but it's pretty logical, especially as a starting point for later development. But I can't imagine what ever could have possessed OGS to sacrifice its own appearance in this way. The sensible thing would have been to fold NGS's real-time capabilities into OGS's visual lay-out. I can understand if there were programming challenges that made that impossible, but if you can only effect a merger by defaulting both servers to the lowest common denominator...

Well mine is green.


Seriously, though. I found DGS much more elegant in terms of visual appearence than OGS. OGS seemed a bit cluttered, and I'm not really a big fan of javascript.

And I happen to think that nova looks better than OGS did. Have you tried the "dark theme" on nova?

Ah, I should have known I could trust you to provide a solution. Not a serious solution, but perhaps that would be asking for too much.

@Bantari - I agree with you completely. I don't think I ever mentioned the look of Nova because functionality should come first. But do you agree that it's backwards to take a server with established functionality and an intelligent interface, and dump all its users onto a server that hasn't had time to work on the interface yet because functionality is still shaky?

do you agree that it's backwards to take a server with established functionality and an intelligent interface, and dump all its users onto a server that hasn't had time to work on the interface yet because functionality is still shaky?

I could not find a list of active game offers, which to me is the most important.

You were logged in, right? If you were logged in, I have a hard time believing you missed the big blue button that says "browse open challenges". Did I mention it was big, and blue?

when I clicked on it all I got was a big empty box with labels "blitz", "live" and "long" below it. Nothing else.

From the chat:

Perfect, 75% of the time I send moves were in my iPad 1. Great way to ruin my correspondence experience, which was acceptable in OGS before. I hope the "at the moment" is that they are trying to solve it.

It sucks to lose the games you're playing now, but you could switch to DGS for new ones.

Perfect, 75% of the time I send moves were in my iPad 1. Great way to ruin my correspondence experience, which was acceptable in OGS before. I hope the "at the moment" is that they are trying to solve it.

I feel your pain -I'm 99% mobile and I can't force new ogs to work on any of my mobile devices. But I'm not playing there at the moment so I can wait for a fix. btw there are Android and iOS clients on the way (as I heard on #twitter).

Well, that's the seek graph. If everything was working normally that would mean there were simply no open challenges when you checked.

But I suspect there might be something wrong on your end, maybe a javascript/browser issue or something?

Ah, all those little gray rectangles are supposed to be games! I thought that was just an error in the representation of something. Strange way to represent them and somewhat wasteful of space on the screen because they don't provide any extra information which is not available in the list below.