🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Dec 10, 2015 02:22 AM UTC:
Due to being blocked by Java security, the Java applets for playing Chess
variants no longer work. This affects Coffee Chinese Chess and all of Ed
Friedlander's apps. So I have removed Java apps from the Play submenu. That
leaves Game Courier as the main thing on the Play subdomain. So I decided
to make the Play subdomain for Game Courier specifically. I moved the index
page for Game Courier to the root folder of the subdomain, and I moved all
the preset pages there too, as well as updating their URLs in the database.
This will give better URLs to the games you can play on Game Courier. I am
also considering changing the name of Game Courier to something that
reflects the domain name, such as the Chess Variants Playroom. That gets
"play" in the name, and it gives it a location name, which seems more
suitable for a place on the web than a verb name does. I've also considered
Playground, Playpen, and Playhouse. The first two seem a bit juvenile, and
the third describes either a pretend house or a theater, rather than a
place for playing.
Also, I'm posting here, because the homepage for the subdomain is
unindexed, and I cannot use the Edit link to fix this. This has something
to do with the new site handling .htaccess differently. I may fix it later
by bypassing the use of .htaccess for accessing certain pages.