HN: Like playing Go? Review my new site. It was a "weekend hack."

Re:HN: Like playing Go? Review my new site. It was a "weeken... by delano on Sunday June 28, 2009 @06:17PM (#678162)

This is great! If it were possible to play against people I didn't know I would use it all the time. I've annoyed friends for years trying to get them to play.

I like toggable settings by the way.

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Re:HN: Like playing Go? Review my new site. It was a "weeken... by davepeck on Sunday June 28, 2009 @06:49PM (#678194)

I originally designed this site so that I could play with _my_ friends, which basically meant I wanted to challenge them via email.

As a result, the site is (currently) correspondence rather than account-based. If you want to play with strangers, Dragon Go Server is the place to be.

I am thinking about adding accounts and rankings in the future but if I do so, I want to make sure I can differentiate enough from DGS to make it interesting to people.

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Re:HN: Like playing Go? Review my new site. It was a "weeken... by CGamesPlay on Sunday June 28, 2009 @09:14PM (#678315)

The toggle settings are extremely annoying. The drop-down combo box is over 20 years old at this point. Still here because it still works.

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Re:HN: Like playing Go? Review my new site. It was a "weeken... by davepeck on Sunday June 28, 2009 @09:39PM (#678338)

Cool, good to hear this, and I was hoping to have discussion about the toggle controls.

There are only two toggleable options on the entire site that would be better served by a combobox. The rest are binary. The two in question both appear on the sign-up page and both are rarely used (based on the site statistics.) Therefore I opted for the less "correct" (and less usable) but more visually consistent option.

If all you're doing is spinning those two options around to test the site, then yes it certainly could be annoying. But my hunch is that for the average use case, it's just not a big deal...

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