I did discover some performance regressions after this post, but I feel that is expected when getting the HN hug. Hopefully it was still playable for you?

https://imgur.com/a/WeCGy2n

In addition the time seems to go negative and the game never ends in some cases?

https://i.imgur.com/2cEbcKo.png

I have been unable to connect with another player so can't comment on the game-playing experience

There are some bugs here and there that can cause a game to "collapse" for lack of a better word and never get carried forward into the next state. I think this tends to happen when the server gets overloaded and restarts. I need to look into why this happens on occasion.

The total players figure counts the number of unique visitors that have been assigned a session_id. I think it's a bit optimistic since it counts any visitor at all. (excluding google crawler bots)

I have patched the active games counter. It was counting games that had been created but never started.

Thanks a ton for your bug reports, it's helping me harden the server so people can have reliable experiences going forward.

I will be moving away from the confusing public lobby system in short order, but the game should be smooth to play with a couple of friends you can send the link to.