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OGS (online-go.com) is great. I am impressed that it hasn't taken over KGS by now, which is to my knowledge the largest western server. I have tried Pandanet I
by partycoder 10y ago
OGS (online-go.com) is great.
I am impressed that it hasn't taken over KGS by now, which is to my knowledge the largest western server.
I have tried Pandanet IGS, KGS, Tygem, WBaduk and even obscure ones such as Fly or Die and Go Chat (Facebook messenger bot).
I think OGS offers by far the most frictionless way to start and a more modern UI. It even offers really nice features such as the ability to draw on a board during a review.
- rocqua 10y agoKGS keeps my interest because of automatch. Getting a game is fire and forget. I also believe people on KGS play more conventional go, which I enjoy more.
- fiatjaf 10y agoOGS is also fire and forget. If you create a game "room" it will be filled in a matter of seconds, even if you put up some crazy game conditions.
- matburt 10y agoautomatch is definitely on the near-time shortlist of features we'll be implementing.
- artursapek 10y agoThat's awesome to hear
- MichaelGG 10y agoI just wish it had a plugin for something like BW Go (Android). A decent offline client with manual sync, exploration, perhaps conditional moves. There is a plugin for Dragon Go Server and it's so much better than dealing with mobile browsers.
- artursapek 10y agoDo all of these servers not implement a standard protocol? I've had similar frustration with OGS on mobile, and at one point I toyed with the idea of learning iOS by building a Go client that worked with all of these servers.
- fiatjaf 10y agoNo.