Hi all, firstly, I wanted to congratulate the site developpers for the design. But still I believe there is room for improvement, this post is devoted to some I found recently. (If you have any other than those reported here, please, feel free to share, let’s make this post a stress release? 
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Layout critique is always a tricky thing, since many of people’s suggestions end up in taste discussions, nevertheless, there are some which might please all. Here I base my critique mostly on a simple criterion: better use of space, many of my suggestions will focus on fitting everything into a single screen, i.e., not having to scroll down.
Again, I don’t recall if the space on the sides is used for advertising when you’re not a donner, but anyway, this graph has a lot of unused space, besides, look at the time configurations column, it has a huge gap… if only they were side by side, there would be no need of scrolling down… Maybe on a cell phone this wouldn’t be possible, but in a PC it would be better.
It’s pretty much descripted on the image: the overlapping is annoying.
This one might be a bug? Scrolling bug?
I believe here is the most important thing correct, there should be more space on the screen for the review tree (why can KGS fit it better than OGS? That is the question.). Reallocating some buttons and compacting the users infos might do the trick, never forgetting to refit the message box. Also, not having shortcuts for editting is quite unnerving.
These were the major annoyances regarding the layout I’ve been feeling after finally paying more attention to this server and becoming a donator.
Some of my other questions/critiques are:
- Why are there no other game modes available? (examples: rengo, traitor go, phantom go, coupon go, etc.)
- This server could make a better service for Online Go Schools and Online Go Teachers than KGS does. For example, Yunguseng Dojang’s students have to send their games to In-seong after their games, if only there was a way to organize it online, I bet it would be a plus, maybe you could create a custom interface for online go schools, as other schools like L’Académie de Go de Fan Hui use practically the same system. There are also many tsumegos inside the YD’s, maybe you could incorporate them into your database (with password restrictions probably). As a spectator and future student of YD, if you could get a better sound for In-seong’s voice, I would be shooting fireworks.
- Another perk to refine is the configurations page. Why can’t one customize the theme beyond the “dark” and “light” themes? Can’t it be by hex colors (text, background, message box background, etc)? For example, I really dislike these glossy characters, personally I wish there were options for a monokai or cobalt theme.
Thanks for the attention, I hope OGS gets better and better, because these outdated servers (KGS…) or poorly made ones (Tygem, wBaduk…) should not be the definitive solution.
), I just love the visual appearance … but I think it could use a lot of server power if it would be rendered on too many pages because this is something that constantly needs to be updated … ? I’m neither a networking nor a coding person, though.