Online-go – Source code for the Online-Go.com web interface

https://github.com/online-go/online-go.com

by artursapek • 9 years ago

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Cyphase• 9 years ago

To be clear, it's just the frontend for now. Frontend as in the client-side stuff and the backend stuff required to directly support it. The core backend code that manages the games and what-not is not currently available, though it looks like that might happen eventually.[1]

All that said, I'm glad to see this happen!

[1] https://forums.online-go.com/t/the-online-go-com-user-interf...

partycoder• 9 years 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• 9 years ago

KGS 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.

fiatjaf3• 9 years ago

OGS 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.

matburt2• 9 years ago

automatch is definitely on the near-time shortlist of features we'll be implementing.

MichaelGG• 9 years ago

I 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.

artursapek3• 9 years ago

Do 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.

rayalez• 9 years ago

Absolutely amazing webiste. Incredibly well done, has a great community, and Ive had tons of fun playing on it.

If you want to play go - I highly recommend it!

grogenaut• 9 years ago

This seems to be a frontend ui for a go (the board game) site for those looking for golang or somthing else.

fiatjaf3• 9 years 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• 9 years ago

That was born as the Kiseido Go Server. They kept the name when Kiseido's sponsorship ended but changed the meaning.

artursapek3• 9 years ago

I 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."

dboreham• 9 years ago

Why oh why did someone name a programming language "Go"?

For some reason when I read the headline I thought I was going (sic) to see the Go Game coded in the Go Language.

But this is JS.

matburt2• 9 years ago

One of the developers of OGS here! We're pretty excited to make this happen and continue development of the site and hopefully bring Go (the game) to a larger audience.

Online-go – Source code for the Online-Go.com web interface

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