I tried Facebook diplomacy before I joined this site, and the problem wasn't bugs, but the number of people going into CD.

I'm helping them kick-start their points system to try and sort that problem out, and Chris added a notification feature to let people know what's going on in their games. But I think because their site is easier to join and find it'll always get more curious newcomers than this place (but it'll be interesting to see how much it improves)

Great news kestas.

Hip hip hoorah! In the appropriate thread!

I'll probably be making all my new games at 25 hours at least. =)

Can I just clarify how the PHP<-> Facebook integration works? Is it seamless and I can now play games with people on Facebook via this site? Or is it a seperate site, seperate player lists/points that uses a common code base?

It's the latter. Any seamlessness is purely as a result of their close collaboration.

Longer periods work well for me, thanks!

I returned to play PHP Diplomacy after one year, and noticed many more players around, activity in the forum, etc.

I am curious to know: how strong positive impact did the Facebook application had on the overall PHPDiplomacy success?

BTW, GREAT WORK and thanks for hosting our games!!!

>>I'll probably be making all my new games at 25 hours at least. =)

Does that mean you'll occasionally finalize without letting the turn run out? :)

Braveheart as Chrispminis said we're on the same codebase, but a separate database.
Though now if we wanted to merge communities we could, but I don't think either of us are sure whether a single one twice the size would be a good thing, and there's the issue of suddenly doubling hosting load

fr1988: I'm not sure, for any way FB phpDip might have helped bring people you can think of another way it could have taken them. Around a year ago we were losing activity steadily for months, but it was actually the points system that first turned that around, and since then every month has been the most active so far :-)

So since FB Dip only came out around Feb I don't think it had a big effect here in particular. (But for me it's great to see the open source license being used for what it was supposed to be)

FB Dip might not be bringing traffic here, but at least it's introducing the game of Diplomacy to many new players. It's such a good game, it really deserves more recognition than it gets. I hope that in the future, Diplomacy will become far more popular, and I can definitely see the facebook application playing in an important role towards that end.

As more people join up, face to face games will be much easier to organize, especially with Facebook networking. I haven't joined the FB Dip community myself, but I'm definitely excited for it.

actually i have a question. i havent played any games here in some time and for anyone who knows, should i start up again on Facebook or stay here? which is better? would i have more fun since i know everyone here or what

Thanks for the info! Yes, I do believe that Diplomacy (and especially this Diplomacy platform) deserves more and more fame!

I found this site one year ago, while googling about Diplomacy before enrolling at Diplomatic Academy. And I think this is one of the few games which is worth to play! It requires to play the people more than the board itself, it takes 5 minutes to get the main rules, but a life to master them (at least for me :-).

At the top of this, PHPDiplomacy shows the power of Open Source, so even better...

Thucydides, as kestas just said, the FB phpDip now is identical to here. Frankly, before the merge I would have said here was better, if nothing else but for the community. But now, the only difference *is* the community, so I'd stay here. :)

The main difference is the community, more people come and go there, plus there the points system was only just started off so the rankings aren't so well established.

There are also small differences, like JavaScript not yet being ported to Facebook, which means the chatbox doesn't scroll to the bottom, and you can't scroll back through old maps (but hopefully these'll be fixed in time)

If I were a Facebook nut I'd play over there

Btw - have noticed chat boxes down scroll to the bottom here either when using my Mac at home. XP seems fine.

Firstly...Diplomatic Academy? There is such a thing? Hmmm...there is! http://www.da-vienna.ac.at/application/startseite.asp Awesome! If I were younger, that would be a consideration. :)

And second, I have no need or desire to have a Facebook account and therefore have no reason to leave the best online diplomacy site!

The experienced community here is better...because it's experienced.

However, I'm excited by the prospect, as Chris mentioned, of FB facilitating more FTF games.

It would definitely be helpful if some of the more experienced players here helped the budding facebook community grow and mature by joining up themselves. I will think about joining myself when the summer is over.

perhaps we could be allowed to play there with the same login but not vice versa? :-)

That may be tricky to do.