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@shamisen

It would’ve helped if the people who ran a Go-related business were also good at Go themselves, like having a background in fitness probably helps with starting a gym business.

There is a law that all developers are around 10k in strength. Nothing you can do about that. Also a 10k Go player will have enough understanding of Go to develop a Go app.
To take your own example, you don’t need to be Arnold Schwarzenegger to start a gym chain.

@shamisen

Instead of fixing it through open-source PRs on a legacy codebase, it would be much faster to build my own Go website from the ground up, and that’s exactly what you see other devs doing.

To be fair I haven’t seen a better Go web app than OGS yet. Have you?

Refactoring the codebase instead of completely rewriting it can also be a viable solution.

@shamisen

Even govariants.com could’ve been a page on OGS and probably would’ve gotten more exposure that way – change my mind.

If you would integrate Go-Variants into OGS then that would have a series of consequences:

• Larger project with a larger codebase to maintain
• More people having to work together (or more people you have to pay to not touch the code as you would say )
• Also way more bugs, since maintaining several variants of the game will surely be bug prone, and since it’s on OGS now these bugs would be associated with OGS which could be a damage in reputation

… and so on and so on.

@shamisen

I hope OGS will continue to improve even after I’m gone.

I’ve heard you’re 29 now. If you eat healthy and work out once in a while I’m sure we can count you in for the next 50 years, which is quite the time span.

@shamisen

Y’all say there’s much better UI/UX designers than me. Then prove it. I don’t see them in the room right now.

Hey, stop stealing my jokes!

@shamisen

There’s plenty of other users besides me who are always complaining about OGS frontend I’ve seen on these forums, Reddit, and elsewhere. Can you shut them up?

True, but again if we want to say something positive about OGS we can say that there aren’t really any other competitors out there that do it better currently:

Fox Weiqi

• Windows Desktop App (I mean are you joking?)
• UI/UX from the 90s
• Translations to other languages are incomplete and erroneous

Tygem Baduk

• Windows Desktop App plus a mobile app now I think (but still no web app, at least non with TLS certificate)
• UI/UX from the 90s
• Translations better than Fox but still not very good

BadukPop

• Only on mobile…
• UI interesting idea and OK for puzzles but not something I’d want to use as a main interface

And all the other options don’t even feel worth mentioning. So while the OGS UI/UX could benefit from improvements, OGS is currently still king in that realm.

Although one Go Interface worth mentioning here is WeiqiHub, whoever created this is a total genius. He managed to create a way to play games on the three most important platforms (Fox, Tygem, OGS), he then build a super beautiful UI on top of that with a straightforward UX, and he added a great repository of puzzles with very cool puzzle modes. Definitely my favorite way to play Go after OGS of course. That app is also available for Windows, Mac and Linux; and for Linux you can simply run it as an AppImage. He also added my favorite Go Theme “BadukTV”. It’s like the guy literally implemented all the most important features and he did so in a good way. Total Boss
The reason I still go to OGS is mostly the community aspect.

@shamisen

Nobody other than me has the confidence to say that they can.

Why do you think that? I totally have the confidence. If I had the time then I’m sure I could create an amazing FE for OGS in a matter of months. But I just have other stuff to do. And as YellowAsTopaz stated the same goes for most people here.