Why I love Nova.gs more than L19

[tapir]

People, who started the thread to praise nova.gs but complain now about the OGS features, probably do not sufficiently appreciate that OGS is/was one of the few successful wester server launches in recent years - by merging nova.gs and OGS there suddenly was a large (though turn-based) player base working with nova.gs software. This (mainly turn-based) player base has requirements that may not map 1:1 with the generic "go player" of dfunkt's post, i.e. a working tournament system and pre-scheduling of moves is more important for turn-based play than say a constant connection.

[dfunkt]

(probably because they know the problem lies with trying to more with a browser than a browser is capable of). I firmly believe that the only truly decent servers will have a client that runs locally on the user's machine with a minimal data stream over the internet.

Regardless of the current state of OGS, this is false from a technical point of view. There is nothing forcing a web application to stream more data than a native client.

You're probably right. I edited my post and took out this speculative statement.