Yahooâs Go closed, letâs tell âem where to to play!

Bonobo · **#21**

Bantari wrote:

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I somehow find it disrespectful of you to be just dismissing it all with "similar to aol :lol:

" or "funded in mesozoic."
You don't like Yahoo, that's fine. But don't just look down upon people who did.

I was kidding. Apparently not explicitly enough. Didn’t mean to be condescending. Well, at least not more than jokes about East Frisia are in Germany.

All I really meant to say was that Yahoo is OLD, and thus, similar to AOL, it has a large following. Uhm, like, e.g., Fox “News”. Or the BILD“zeitung”. Ach, forget it ;-)

Perhaps it will be clearer when manners of players coming from there show where they’re coming from … and perhaps I’m totally wrong about this.

Tom

hyperpape · **#22**

illluck wrote:

Yahoo had a large-ish number of players because it was a large search engine/portal. I'd be willing to bet that far more players (both in numbers and in proportion) left it when they discovered other servers than there are players who left other servers to play at Yahoo. If that's true, then "learning" from Yahoo would be the last thing any server wants.

Well, while it's not clear how we should act on it, there's a message there: Go games that are easy to access because they're connected to something else big have a lot of potential to expose people to the game. And maybe even some stronger players will enjoy playing there because it is "no fuss".

Bonobo · **#23**

hyperpape wrote:

[..] there's a message there: Go games that are easy to access because they're connected to something else big have a lot of potential to expose people to the game. And maybe even some stronger players will enjoy playing there because it is "no fuss".

… just checked again: it is posssible to log in to ☯GS as well as to the new public beta test of ☯GS using Facebook, Google+, and Twitter … while I know that there are critical points to these, it definitely means no fuss for those who use these social networks which have HUGE user bases …

hyperpape · **#24**

Yeah, I think those features can only help. But what OGS still lacks (aside from lots of players for real-time games) is visibility.

oren · **#25**

hyperpape wrote:

Yeah, I think those features can only help. But what OGS still lacks (aside from lots of players for real-time games) is visibility.

and a bit of UI improvement...

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