I was told to write my own go server in egr by an user today because I made some disgruntled remarks about how long it is taking wms to fix the stone sounds.

So how exactly does one go about writing a go server? I am not interested in operating a go server, just in creating one for the kick of it.

If you have to ask this question, then you would need to learn a lot to harness the abilities to build one.
Its a lot of work and effort to build a multiplayer system that just works, and an inmense one to make it a good experience.
I assume you are a programmer?


However, you can definitely collaborate on an existing server. There are some open sourced ones, and Kaya itself has parts of it open-sourced so people can collaborate.

kgs move sounds are like bullets into your ear. Try to listen to Guo Juan's teaching audio lessons at KGSplus. You'll want to switch off the sound but then her voice is gone as well.

I'm just curious how hard it would be to write a basic one.

Are you asking how to program, or...? If you already know how to program, why not start with an SGF parser... Or maybe before that, think of some of the features you want your server to have.

Another problem is, even if you write a server, it will take time to get a lot of people using your server, unless it's really a lot coolaer than the existing ones. And if it's less cool than the existing ones, that may never happen.

Either way, I won't discourage you from trying. If nothing else, you'll learn something...

I do know some programming, just not anything I would need to do something like this.

I guess I would need to learn python, javascript, html and css and start with trying write a goban on a web page.

I don't plan to be a go server operator. I think when the programmer is the operator, it is not a good arrangement.

so I can spend my time fixing web browser regressions instead.

something tells me that you'll soon be wishing you were fixing java bugs instead of dealing with the plethora of browser incompatibilities

By the way, I will not be "fixing" the stones sounds. It's a java bug, it works in older java, and at this point I'm fed up and not fixing java bugs any more. Any time I have is going to an HTML client so I can spend my time fixing web browser regressions instead.

It is hard for me to imagine that Java is responsible for having Guo Juan firing auditive bullets at me through KGSPlus.

People have asked her to turn off her stones sounds off. You'd have to ask her why she doesn't. My guess is she doesn't understand the problem / know how to fix it (despite people trying to explain in chat), which is rather surprising seeing as she's a professional Go teacher.

I like the stone sounds in her lectures actually. It gives an additional sense of interaction somehow.