By the way what was the reason for not allowing images? Was there a worry there'd be more to moderate? There's no technical reason we can't turn it on for everyone I can think of The main issue is that we already have quite a significant spam problem here; fake passport sellers and their ilk (oil p...

I know my post probably comes across as 'what a snowflake' to those who aren't affected by what I'm talking about. On the old forum I would never have posted it because the response would 100% be a torrent of abuse. Hell, I dislike posting it even now because I'm an extremely conflict-averse person ...

I am hoping to loosen the rules on the forum a bit; the women I asked didn't find the post sexist, and no-one found the other tongue-in-cheek comment objectionable, but that's up to people to decide. I don't think it's as big of a deal as it's being made out. They did agree that moderators should b...

This is called the Russian Opening (Albanian Variation) in FvA. Both my 2017 openings tier list and RoganJosh's (better) 2020 tier list put it at the very lowest tier that's still considered viable in high level play. Very surprised to hear that the bot uses it, or even that Merry managed to use it ...

Discord has updated its bot policy to only allow slash commands iirc, which means a lot of older bots have broken. This is probably the same, unfortunately.

Experimenting with setting one up early:

https://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=499392
Password: blitz

Game will begin at 22:00 UTC (7pm Eastern)

That person was a spammer, making random comments to disguise the links they were posting elsewhere. They have now been banned.

Nexus Leagues is still going strong, and is a pretty solid place to find games. If you're not a fan of discord there's no requirement to join, but having the link displayed somewhere prominent on the forum helps build up the webdip playerbase there (which means in turn, more waves happen on webdip).

New blitz game begins in an hour! 08 end, <2h duration
https://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=478351
Password: blitz

Very weird goings on in that game. I have no clue what's happening, will forward it to the site owner.

New Blitz game begins in 1h! 08 end, <2h duration
https://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=471042
Invite Code: blitz

Starting them up again, although they're going to be a bit less regular than they used to be

I'm away until the 29th unfortunately... if you join the discord server linked at the start of the thread though, I think people are starting community-run games from there in the meantime

New blitz game begins in 1h! 08 end, <2h duration
https://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=458545
Password: blitz

Yep, I'll be running one that starts at 8pm British time!

New Blitz game begins in 1h! 08 end, <2h duration
https://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=456702
Password: blitz

New blitz game begins in 1h! 08 end, <2h duration
https://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=455618
Password: blitz

Start was extended out a bit but we got it filled! Game starts soon

New blitz game begins in 1h! 08 end, <2h duration
https://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=455338
Password: blitz

New Blitz game begins in 15m! 08 end, <2h duration
https://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=454998
Password: blitz