Where are all the new players?

[FritzS]

I brought this up two years ago.
I do consider it a major blocker for OGS‘s potential to grow.

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…