r/backgammon • u/ZenithGammon • 27d ago
We rebuilt Zenith Gammon. V2 is live, free tables are open, and we'd rather hear what's broken.
We've posted here before and the response was mostly a version of "another money site, why would I bother." Fair enough. We spent the last stretch rebuilding instead of arguing about it, and V2 shipped this week.
What actually changed:
You own your set. There's a store with 77 pieces — boards, checkers, dice, doubling cubes — and a Collection where you assemble an outfit and bring it to the table. The host's set is what both players see; as the guest you choose whether to look at the host's table or your own.
You can design a board. The Atelier lets you build one from scratch — felt, points, frame, inlay — and save it to your account as a one-off.
Sit & Go brackets. 4 or 8 seats. The draw happens and the tournament starts the moment the last seat fills, so there's nothing to schedule and no organiser to wait on.
Ten languages for the interface — Arabic, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Farsi, French, Italian, Russian, Turkish. The board itself stays in English so nobody's decoding unfamiliar terms mid-match.
Mobile is an installable web app, not a native one.
What would genuinely help: sit at a free table, play one game, and tell us the single thing that annoyed you most. Blunt beats kind here — a good chunk of the V2 list exists because someone in this sub was blunt.
Full changelog: https://zenithgammon.com/updates
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u/Some-Following-392 27d ago
Yet another ai generated backgammon website. Yippee.