Feature Request: Larger Board (or Half Zen Mode)

And on desktop? I’m not trying to shoot down the request, but these are legitimate questions that anyone who implements this would need to answer.

Well i dunno for desktop, but my main concern is mobile because to occupy fully the available space is something i find crucial.
I wrote a couple of times on this which is far from perfect on OGS. Got some likes and that’s it. I guess most use a desktop.

I don’t understand your concern with mobile. On my phone the board filles the whole space from left to right. Maybe u are using landscape? Try portrait, it might fix the problem for u.

Ok just made quickly a screenshot. You ll see that the board is not fitting.

on mobile its usually :

I talking about landscape


return board to normal size and then navigate, no problem
then return to game, make board big again and continue to play

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these buttons^
Why don’t move them there permanently? So no special mode is needed
Bigger board is more important than their location under the board
its clear what they mean for everyone, unlike hamburger menu
new location would still be similar to where they are in portrait mode now
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New nav bar is so big that there is more than enough place to add something like a button with function to hide it. Unhide button may be placed at top right corner of the screen. This could work anywhere, not just on game page.


Microsoft Windows has ability to hide their bar. Why not OGS to have it too?

Examples of websites would be more convincing than examples of operating systems. OS are meant to get out of the way, and people are expected to spend enough time with their OS that they can figure out power user stuff like hiding the bar.

I did a quick spot check, the websites I found with top bar don’t have a button to hide it:

  • Discourse (our forums software)
  • Facebook
  • Yahoo
  • Gmail
  • Lichess (except Zen mode, which we already have)

My subjective feeling: the request itself (larger board) is agreeable, but the minor complication that needs to be added elsewhere (a button to enlarge/unenlarge, separate from zen mode) is not worth it.

One suggestion: there is also option to hide the bar with a CSS extension, similar to that guy who hid the logo :joy:

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:joy:

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they don’t have game board as the main purpose of existence


in that meme:
https://forums.online-go.com/t/go-memes/4337/2312
I made board small on the second picture for a reason
go server may add some additional functions to what you have in real Go club, but it shouldn’t decrease quality of the main thing.
Imagine Go club transformed into restaurant where boards became small, so table have enough space for a food.

FIFY :slight_smile:


It’s a great meme. But I think there is some irony that you are proposing to add another button to reduce clutter…

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Isn’t the fix for stone_defender simply to turn his device in portrait mode?
No additional button needed, it’s already there without more clutter.
Extremely elegant.

He’s not on mobile…

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Ah, I misunderstood “on mobile its usually”.

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What is the purpose of Zen mode?

To have only things that you see when play in real life? To not have additional functions that you see only on servers?
But in real life game you see face of your opponent. While in Zen mode there is no avatar or even nickname.
In real life game you hear what your opponent says to you. You don’t insert earplugs in your ears. While in Zen mode there is no chat.

To have no distractions? To think about Go game more deeply than possible in real life game?
But knowledge that opponent may write something in chat and I don’t see it distracts me!

There have to be option to add chat to Zen mode!

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Perhaps some synergy to be had here ^

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Not only mobile. Height of normal horizontal screen is still usually smaller than real Go board that you will see in any Go club.

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are you kidding?
those buttons are even bigger now!
(board is even smaller)

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and there is new bug:
board trembles left-right when I press them, because scroll bar appears and disappears at the right of the window



(Chrome)


post update
looks like it was mentioned already in other topic:

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