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@BHydden

It is made and owned by an american, and the primary player base is american and european. In what way is it not a western go server?

@benjito

to add to @BHydden’s observations, OGS is also English-forward (see Forums, Help Chat, default language).

Even for non-English languages, translations skew toward European languages. Korean (which is probably top 2 or 3 for Go popularity) is only 80% complete

I don’t know but I’ve always regarded OGS as an international Go server.

• OGS is open source, everyone can create PRs (Asians too)
• OGS has extensive language options including Korean, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese as well as two flavors of Chinese
• OGS is not region locked (afaik) and accessible from anywhere (from Asia too)
• While Americans and Europeans do make up a large part of the OGS player base, according to this statistic out of the 15 most used flags on OGS six are Asian: Thailand, China, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, South Korea

Regarding Languages

I think it’s very important to point out that while the Korean translation on OGS is only 80% complete, the Korean translation on Fox is way less than 80% complete. Furthermore, Fox does not offer any South Asian languages (Thai, Vietnamese, etc.).

Regarding General Accessibility

I’d also like to point out that Fox is only accessible via Windows. The many Chinese users that might use a Chinese OS, like Ubuntu Kylin, cannot even access Fox. But they could always access OGS.

@Samraku

And “Western” is already a pretty fuzzy term

Agreed, I try to avoid that term these days. Although I have to acknowledge that people use it a lot.