KGS Wishlist
The following are features and requests KGS users hope can one day be implemented in the server or client software (KGS or CGoban2).
If you are a first time user:
If you just used KGS for the first time, this page may be quite confusing to you. Your experience, however, is very valuable and you can help improve KGS by adding it to KGS First Time User Experience.
If you have used KGS already and have a wish:
Please enter your wish at the bottom of the appropriate section. Check thoroughly if the feature isn't already there. If you miss something rather obviously needed, better ask people at KGS first instead of adding a wish here. See KGS Plans for what wms plans to add in the future. Adding a wish to KGS Wishlist won't help anything if it's already about to get realized.
If you found a bug:
To point out a bug instead of a wish, go to KGS Bugs.
If you want a look in the future:
To see exactly what wms is working on right now, you can look at the KGS Status page. For more long term plans of wms, see KGS Plans.
wms: If I like an idea enough to decide that I will definitely implement it eventually (or if it is implemented already!), I will erase the entry here and add an entry to the status or plans page. So if I delete your entry, don't be mad! Just check those pages, it probably means that I really liked your idea. I will never remove an idea here because I do not like it.
UPDATE: I have moved my plans to a private bugzilla database. I may someday make that database available for reading, but for now, I don't have a public future plans list.
Wishes that definitely will not be done will be moved to KGSWishlist/Rejected. Items added which are already there will be deleted immedately.
Solutions and work-arounds for difficulties and problems:
There is a page Cgoban problems and solutions (and collection of problems still without workaround) (not a bug page, not a wish list).
Table of Contents
- [00] Summary / Most Wanted
- [1] Social
- [11] Logging In
- [12] General User Handling
- [13] Chat handling/room use
- [14] Handling Nasties
- [15] Design Discussion: Should Games be arranged by Chat?
- [16] New User's First Login
- [17] Privacy
- [18] Management
- [12] General User Handling
- [2] Game Handling
- [21] General Game Stuff
- [22] Editing
- [23] Score Estimator
- [24] Rule Systems
- [25] Time Systems
- [26] Ratings
- [27] Game Start
- [28] Game End
- [22] Editing
- [3] File Handling/Database Use
- [31] User Info
- [32] Game info
- [33] Game File Format and Saving
- (KGS Issue) Kogo's Joseki Dictionary
- [32] Game info
- [4] General UI and Design Issues
- [5] KGS Plus
- [7] KGS Web Pages
- [8] Technical/Other/Dunnos
- [9] kgsGtp and Bot Access to KGS
- [10] Security
- [1] Social
Currently, the entire KGS Wishlist is about to get restructured. You're more than welcome to contribute your ideas. See the ongoing discussion for details, and KGS Wishlist2 for what it's going to be.
Can anyone honestly say that they're still working on the restrucring? It's been many months, maybe even a year or more since I first saw the restrucure message and so far the wishlist2 page hasn't changed.
What's the relevancy of this page now that Cgoban3 is out? Can someone compare the wishlist to changes implemented in cgoban3?
Slade: I suggest the ability to right click on a game in a game listing and select the new option "Open Locally". This would copy the game to your system using a temporary file to store the sgf and then cgoban would load up the file. This way you can do a one-click load of a game to review without having to host it online or going through the kgs archives.
Anonymous:DEBUG KGS3 is most URGENT. No need of new features (in 3.0.9) when imporant bugs are known since beginning of 3.0. Or is it needed to full up admins mail with bug report ?
Anonymous: please add some learning accosories at the server like in dashn where you can solve problems without needing to upload them
ridiculous?: how it is posible to set byo time 30sec/60moves? 2s on move make posibility to make many hight level account only by winning on time!!! Shouldn't be some 5s/move limit to RATED games?!
Please add one-color-go
Anonymous: Yeah that would be cool! Or three player Go.
It would be great if in the window of ongoing games There could be a column telling "how fast" the games are So I can decide if I want to watch a blitz game or a slow one Now I have to open the game to see
fujichan? I suggest to put the personals statistics with:
♦Games win: -by points:x -by resign:x -by time:x ♦Games lose: x -by points:x -by resign:x -by time:x ♦Games unfinished:x
I suggest put it between "games" and "graphic"
meh: I'd like a page somewhere with the status of the server where you can go when you're having trouble logging in. Something that says "Server Status: Down" or whatever, and maybe an estimate as to how long it will take to correct the problem if it's going to be down for an extended period of time. That way, at least, you can tell whether it's on your end or not - sometimes when the server's down, the error notice doesn't come up at all for me. Maybe just put it on the main KGS website. +
Jontarou?: I would prefer using the textured stones in KGS, but I find that it is too difficult to distinguish easily between the white and black stones. I wonder if it might be beneficial to lessen the glare on the black stones (and possibly darken them a bit) and lighten the patterns on the white stones. This is, of course, my personal opinion, but I suspect that others might feel the same way, so I thought that I'd at least suggest it and I think doing this would improve the visual appearance of the board. (Another option might be making the stones' appearance manually adjustable.)
don: I suggest to create a test of like 10 question to see if they have read the conditions for the chat and the faq, especially the section about escapers. And they will all know that hotmail emails might not work.
flip: I would really love a shortcut eg Ctrl-U to pickup a users information. Ctrl-N and Ctrl-Q are there so this can't be hard to implement and would be really great for those of us who hate switching between mouse and keyboard.
Gzperi?: I wonder if it's possible to add the option "play monochromatic game". This should be funny to play such games on KGS. Some more shortcuts would be very welcome yes. Improve the anti escaping system : A person who leaves a game has 1 month to finish it else he is declared as looser (or, in case his opponent is not online, to play a move in it) then the website will be able to see what games are really posponned, and what are just forgotten escaped games.this can be good
Hydro47? Four Color Go would be a great add to the server, by this, 4 people for themselves in one go match.
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kirkmc? I would like to see the time display a different color. I don't have very good eyesight, and red on black is about the hardest thing to see. I've made mistakes seeing, say, 3s as 8s when looking at the time. Can you change it to yellow or green, which are much easier to see, or change the background from black; or make the clock color a user preference?
tar88z? there is too many escapers that the system dont handel well at all, its happen to me alot, and i fear that im not the only one. some of them are smart and know when ther close to become a chronic escaper, this way they can escape 10 game in 6 mounth, that alot and very annoying, I thouth about it alot and i think i have the perfect solution:
I suggest that if someone left unfinished game, and if the game is after 100 turns, then if the person who left dont comeback after 5 minute he will loss the game but only if the other player stay in the game for all the 5 minutes.
that way if u have an internet problem or the computer reset its not a problem and u can come back to the game,
its the perfet system against escaper who truly starting to piss me off. plz give this one a thinking time and i m sure u will agree with me.
thanks. and sorry for all the English mistakes, not my mother languange.