Life In 19x19

Just found out a new go server is being developed. Looks like a good idea as long as people go into the server. What seems to me to be the difficulty of creating a new go server is that people are always reluctant to switch servers because they want to be in the most populated servers. Any thoughts?


Project prototype.

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

PROVOK3 wrote:Just found out a new go server is being developed. Looks like a good idea as long as people go into the server. What seems to me to be the difficulty of creating a new go server is that people are always reluctant to switch servers because they want to be in the most populated servers. Any thoughts?

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

People will play on whatever works best for them. It's hard to say until it's available to play on. I think people aren't so dead set that they won't move to try a new server it it's easy to use.

PROVOK3 wrote:What seems to me to be the difficulty of creating a new go server is that people are always reluctant to switch servers because they want to be in the most populated servers. Any thoughts?

I had already presented an idea to get the server more populated, but it seems the developers have their own ideas which they want to keep secret for the time being.

Although one could just say it's another overambitious project, their goal of putting everything related to Go in one place makes sense and would indeed be 'historic.' I wonder if their rewards for donating, or Candy, will make a big difference. They also have an idea suggestion page with a 'thumbs-up'-like system. I wish them all the success in the world but hope they will keep listening if they ever get where they plan to go.

I have lots of other ideas for a go server but if i have to pay $100 to get every idea implemented i would be broke.



1 Also other board sizes, just any size you want (i like 7x7)
2 gtp interface (so bots can also join in the fun)
3 IGS interface (so i can play it via smartgo)
4 linking to joseki databases (on line and private off line databases)
5 linking to sensei's library (go tern get transformed to links to sensei's)
6 copy diagrams to ascii

Turnbased go ideas:
7 also turnbased go, or very long timings (months / weeks) with very long extra time(days)
8 Also sgf download
9 Also sgf upload (that you can put your future moves allready in the system

Actually the developer of the server already announced it a few days earlier in another thread. Maybe if you have good ideas, you should add to that thread.

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