21 Jan 03
Originally posted by magnublmPosts like this make me blush with pride 😏.
I'm pretty new to this site, but I have to tell you how pleased I am with it! 😵 I've tried other sites, which shall remain nameless (no point in being negative), but this one takes the cake in my opinion. It seems like you (Russ and Chris) care about keeping it a quality site (feedback, additions, remods, etc.) I appreciate that, too. I'm also plea ...[text shortened]... so scares me a little--100+ games going--wow. Now if I could only control my addiction to it...
"Sort of a family, it seems."
I did work for a so-called 'communities' company when I first started writing this site (I was bored at work) - and it proved to me that you just can't 'make' a community, it happens overtime, if the environment is right. And that is why I just love what has happened here with the people who love this place and 'hang out' here everyday. It is very rewarding to me as a programmer to create stuff that people enjoy - which is why I find it hard to resist all those feature requests.... 😉
-Russ
21 Jan 03
Originally posted by thireThe original drone game just made random moves - it helped with testing more than anything else in the early days( meaning, someone I could actually beat!). Then Chris replaced it with Rival Online- which was good - but just killing the server.
Good reason!
And (reply to the other statement):
But it would be fun to change sometimes and not to play against people.
I doubt it will ever return because that isn't the purpose of this site.
-Russ
21 Jan 03
Originally posted by T1000yes are they? 😕
So you mean the ones they call "Rhymester" and "Vaknso" aren't actually chess playing drones at all but real life human being people types?
😉
not possible!!!
vaknso has something like 150 moves each day in Jan now...
If they are real persons they they work for Russ & Chris to make the play movi' here 😀