Auto-vacation is supposed to activate when few minutes left until timeout.
But when not active player plays as black and did no move yet, they have blue timer before actual timer.
Apparently when blue timer reaches 0, auto-vacation activates. And only then when no vacation left, actual timer starts to go down.
I challenged that player in Ladder because they are on the highest possible to challenge place:
https://online-go.com/player/1606203/
they are not active since 2024
Game had blue timer
and now vacation activated
still 3 days on actual timer
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I also have a game where someone challenged me and then immediately went into vacation without playing a move, I do not know whether they chose to go into vacation or whether it is related:
Not exactly related, but I always found the “Pause on weekends” setting weird.
Like, isn’t weekends precisely the time when people can play Go the most (excluding pros, of course)? Since other people has work/school to attend to in the weekdays.
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I’m almost certain the pause has been going on for five days. And I seem to recall I checked my opponent’s profile and they were marked as on vacation.
Maybe it depends. If you have a regular routine on a weekday, you could play your correspondence moves on a commute (bus or train etc), or on a lunch break or so on.
Then maybe the routine is out the window on a weekend, though it depends on each persons commitments.
Practically speaking, I think the reason is the reverse of what you said. Working people use the weekend for holidays that they can’t do during the week: going on a short trip for two days (or three days if there is a Monday holiday in the U.S.). They also fill their weekends with a combination of chores or projects and relaxation with friends or family. Retired people like me have more flexibility, but I still like the weekend pause as a break from thinking about a game every single day.
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