OGS has design issues

[Regenwasser]

You’re a little late to the party. I think they know by now. I’m sure they will look into the recent UI/UX feedback when they find the time.

How intuitive is OGS for new users?

Ironic, given our whole design ethos is to be as simple and welcoming for beginners as possible

Automatch ("Quick match finder") is very frustrating to use

Yesterday I did help a new user (new to the game and new to OGS) to find a correspondence game. (I want to add that I also don’t know OGS very well yet myself.) I selected 9x9 and just hit the “Correspondence” button in the “Quick match finder” (using default settings) and thought, this would actually get us a new game rather quickly. After quite a longer wait, a new game was created but the opponent canceled the game right away - apologizing for mis-clicking on “Correspondence” in the quick m…

New Landing Page Idea

So I figured I would take a shot at making a mock up of a landing/play page for OGS. Thoughts? You can play with it here. [Screen Shot 2023-01-26 at 9.03.09 PM] @anoek I’d love to hear your thoughts. Made a mobile mock up. If only coding the actual site was this easy [image] [image] [image]

Rework the "Automatch finder" (formerly "Quick match finder")

Introduction Like I said in my last post here: First of all I love OGS. Great web app, nice community and the place where I play Go the most! Now to the “Quick match finder” (QMF). It takes quite a while to find games using the “quick match finder” and it does seem to be a self made problem or at least a problem worsened by the current implementation. This has been previously discussed here but it does not seem like a conclusion was reached, so I’d like to reopen the issue. “Quick match finde…

Libaduk - Lichess fork for Go

Hi all, For a long time I’ve wondered how hard it would be to fork Lichess and use it to play Go. It turns out it’s super hard. But what’s not hard is grabbing the CSS and re-implementing some of the basic functionality in Svelte with an LLM. The code is here: Libaduk: A re-implementation of Lichess for Go. You can try it out at https://libaduk.com/. [image] I’m not really interested in hosting Yet Another Go Server – I think most people here have seen the community fracture too many times.…

Home page ideas megathread

Let’s make one big thread for discussing what to do with the new OGS home page and settings moving forward. We were already beginning to discuss ideas in Option to disable the new home screen "widgets" but it’s becoming rather polluted and not really related to the original topic of that thread anymore. In my opinion, some worthy goals of this discussion can include: helping OGS be the premier all-in-one Go platform on the Internet, and making OGS more of a social platform as how KGS used to b…

UI update v0.1: All-in-one home page / Play page rework

Edit: updated version: UI update v0.2: All-in-one home page / Play page rework There are many parts of OGS’ frontend that need improvements, from the SGF library to the settings page, but my main focus in this thread will be the home page and the Play section of the main menu. I believe an interface to play Go should be part of the home page even for unregistered users, because what is the purpose of an online Go server if not to play Go? So I gathered all the ideas and feedback from Home pag…

UI update v0.2: All-in-one home page / Play page rework

[EDIT 2026-04-07] new version: UI update v0.3: Home page / play page rework Iterating over @JohnnieDarko’s feedback in UI update v0.1: All-in-one home page / Play page rework and adding some improvements I forgot to or was too lazy to include, hopefully this is usable: Home page [image] Quick match UI on 320x568 screen size [image] Improvements: Open custom games UI merge Open custom game lobbies have been added to the home page, with small adjustments to make the headings more compact a…

UI update v0.3: Home page / play page rework

The scope of UI update v0.2: All-in-one home page / Play page rework was more ambitious than I’m willing to spend time on. I’m giving up on the “all-in-one” aspect of the home page re-design for now. Additionally, this new approach avoids pissing off correspondence players and uses screen real estate better. Play page (work in progress) [play-1] The goal of the play page changes are to make it more intuitive for new users and to use screen space more efficiently. I’ve heard that the current …