You still haven't recommended any alternative. Why can't people use whatever lobby they like? The more the merrier. Or is it just because its name
contains the word TA?
I can offer my view of the lobbies, again:
— Tasclient™: best looking interface, superseeded only by the new react™ weblobby:
http://weblobby.springrts.com/reactjs/index.html. But this is not yet functional. TAsclient does have quite a few errors from time to time (often when closing it), and it has a problem with transparency, but I don't think these are so serious issues. Most importantly, it gets its work done and the interface is clear and easy.
— Springlobby™: is supposed to be the most neutral lobby, but also the lobby I have the most problems with. Although it is very actively maintained. I don't really like the icons and the way it speaks to the user (it has an
attitude problem)
— Spring Weblobby™: nice looking, although warez-black, but is not the most responsive lobby, takes a few seconds to react after you click a button. But very reliable lobby and almost always works. Battle room interface is a bit confusing, don't know how to set ready state and sometimes it automatically changes my state to spectator without making it obvious to me. But still always my second choice for the stability.
— Notalobby™: apparently
in violation of spring's GPL™ licence; NL says this is no longer the case, so an update is needed on this topic. Nevertheless: if we ignore politics, the lobby itself is nice, although for some reason it does not detect spring 98.0 for me, but all other engines work just fine. It's probably a personal problem. A small issue is that you can not set multiple springdata-directories in the settings (it overwrites springsettings.cfg with its setting) so you have to run it sandboxed if you have other lobbies.
— Zero-K lobby™: I think this is nice too, but it seems it can no longer connect to lobby.springrts.com, although there is a setting for that in the options menu. I like the integration of the forum into the lobby and all that, but I find it tedious that virtually every time I start the lobby, it has to perform a self-update. I suppose that's the way zk works, but I prefer updating once a month or so, and not much more often.
These are my opinions, maybe I could have said some things more diplomatically, but to conclude I therefore say that I appreciate every lobby teams work and people have different tastes. So don't take these opinions personally.
