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Re:Online-go – Source code for the Online-Go.com web interface by fiatjaf on Saturday February 25, 2017 @08:09AM (#13731406)
It's strange that the Go community calls all the online Go servers letter-GS (GS stands for "Go Server").

"online-go.com", for example, has never called itself OGS (and that's rather a stupid name).

IGS (Internet Go Server) calls itself "Pandanet", which is a better name, but the community insists on IGS.

KGS is probably the one to blame on this strange state of things, because it's official name is "KGS Go Server", a mutually recursive acronym.

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Re:Online-go – Source code for the Online-Go.com web interface by artursapek on Saturday February 25, 2017 @01:23PM (#13732947)
I actually really like it. It's a fun aspect of the ecosystem. It's also not explicitly explained anywhere - you just sort of have to figure it out.

I occasionally go to a Go meetup in NYC and hear this a lot:

"Do you play online?"

"Yeah, KGS."

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Re:Online-go – Source code for the Online-Go.com web interface by pmontra on Saturday February 25, 2017 @08:30AM (#13731497)
That was born as the Kiseido Go Server. They kept the name when Kiseido's sponsorship ended but changed the meaning.
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