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It's strange that the Go community calls all the online Go servers letter-GS (GS stands for "Go Server"). "online-go.com", for example, has never called itself
by fiatjaf 10y ago
It's strange that the Go community calls all the online Go servers letter-GS (GS stands for "Go Server").
"online-go.com", for example, has never called itself OGS (and that's rather a stupid name).
IGS (Internet Go Server) calls itself "Pandanet", which is a better name, but the community insists on IGS.
KGS is probably the one to blame on this strange state of things, because it's official name is "KGS Go Server", a mutually recursive acronym.
- pmontra 10y agoThat was born as the Kiseido Go Server. They kept the name when Kiseido's sponsorship ended but changed the meaning.
- artursapek 10y agoI actually really like it. It's a fun aspect of the ecosystem. It's also not explicitly explained anywhere - you just sort of have to figure it out. I occasionally go to a Go meetup in NYC and hear this a lot: "Do you play online?" "Yeah, KGS."