It has actually, although I haven’t been able to dig up the threads - search-fu failing me.
I found some notes from about 2022. Salient points:
- 60% of OGS users have other-than-English as their primary language
- IGF reckons 1% of Go players worldwide speak English
=> OGS needs to cater better to it’s international users- Note: we just haven’t really worked out how!
- OGS worldwide has moderately poor page-load performance
=> Work to be done there - Aesthetics - have degraded as we’ve organically added features
- Note that this observation drove the recent rework of the “Find Games” page, so roadmap->change happened!
- Missing features - there’s a list of them:
- Achievements, Matchmaking acitivities, “betting” (with a different name), Challenge invites, post-game Joseki analysis, Simuls, AI cheat detection, Game variants…
- Note: since the list was written, we got “Challenge invites” and are steadily improving AI cheat detection. So roadmap->change also happens
I’m not sure how roadmapping could be usefully conducted “in public”, and resourcing roadmap developments is of course legendarily hard .. just tackling moderation, AI cheat detection and ongoing maintenance (keeping up with payment provider changes and infra growth) keeps us busy.