I genuinely believe that the Puzzles Section on OGS is one of the most innovative and helpful additions to OGS that many other servers don’t have. However I think it could use a few touch ups to make it even more useful.
1: The Search function. If you want to find a particular theme of puzzle, you need to think of a word that will help you find it. Maybe you want to find problems related to Attack and Defense. Well, right now, if you search for “Attack” or “Defense”, you won’t find anything. If you’re patient enough to think of the word “Middlegame” you will manage to find 2 very good problem collections, but there are still many more on OGS related to that topic that you will miss.
I think that every puzzle needs some form of tag related to it, the more the merrier. Preferably not for every single puzzle within the collection, but for collection itself.
Tags like…
Tactics, Tesuji, Strategy, Theory, Opening, Joseki, Fuseki, Attack, Defense, Tsumego, Haengma, Honte, Endgame, Shape, Technique, Invasion, Reduction.
You don’t want every single word, but you want something that covers all the basics. You want something to help make it easier to find relavent puzzles, instead of wading through the hundreds and hundreds of tsumego uploads that are currently available.
Or even subgenres
Opening (Joseki, Fuseki)
Tactics (Honte, Proper, Common, Shape)
Technique (Tesuji, Haengma, Tsumego)
Strategy (Attacking, Defending, Invasion, Reduction, Theory)
Endgame (Counting, Calculation)
Miscellaneous (Assorted, Untagged)
And some form of filter that helps sort/search through those, and maybe each puzzle uses an optional max 2 tags.
Because right now I believe it’s a bit muddled, but some of these puzzles are far more accessible and interactive than some books are, but they are so difficult to find and it seems like a huge loss, even something rated at 4 stars may never been seen by anyone.