It's a lot of work i have no real interest in doing. I'm not your guy sorry. Lantern is not my only project i have a 3 going on now actually and a job. Just not interested. I understand depending on circumstances in life or sometimes some countries as well are this way, people may have less money. But i got to many things that ask time of me now to really just take on some other task on that i'm not real interested in that would be time consuming. I know we all want everything to come to our town, like the circus, or the best stage acts, but its not trivial for me if i decide i want to make everyone happy. This is not passing the salt
People with more interest in FICS than I will have to be the ones to step up. I do appreciate your compliments about the board, but these things are fickle. Reality is if lantern was somehow brought to FICS, you and anyone else may be interested for a week then based on some criteria that we all have go back and decide nah i like raptor or whatever better. Thats how it works. But to me the bottom line is I cant see myself sacrificing Saturdays to program a server visit a few times a year when i'm already working on 3 interfaces, lantern, an android interface and an ipad interface. To give some perspective i don't see lantern getting a ton of my time this year period. It will of course get some as part of an overall goal to further develop it over the next 12 months. But for example currently, I might do a 517 release but mostly lantern has moved to off mode at the moment. Been plotting where to go next in IOS programming.
My android interface to ICC page by the way is
http://www.lanternchess.com/lanternonandroid.html
As well as all that, to me ICC is special. The ownership has been fairly constant over the last 20 years, and the owners have not sold out to a big name but kept it a specialty chess server aimed more toward the top of the chess world. I'm impressed by all the stuff that ICC has put into the operation over the years. I undertand FICS will still be there as it serves a need particular for players without much money for chess subscriptions. But i believe actually the paid model is good for a chess subscription for anyone who is not economically that limited as to be able to afford 70 a year adult. It was argued forever in the 90s why should we pay for chess. I see results coming out of the ICC experiment. It's a nice place to go hang out. So in a way part of this for me is casting a vote of support for what i see exists and has developed at ICC.
Mike
But now I do, and it looks great! Congrats! 
