Small game community. VERY small

[Lancelot]

Just dreaming a bit: if WA had unicode (Asian languages, Russian, etc) support and built-in translation, our playerbase would explode overnight.

Remember there were hundreds of thousands of Korean Worms players back in the day. It wouldn't take many of them wanting a nostalgia trip to permanently revive WA. 

Maybe there is some hacky way to accomplish some kind of Unicode support (perhaps with Wormkit and/or using 3rd party chat tools to overlay the frontend and in-game chat menus?), linked to an online translation API.  A big downside is that the unicode chat couldn't be part of the replays without more complication (companion .WAchat files?). It does seem unlikely. Maybe there's something on GitHub we can work with.

Gamepad support would be popular too.  There's a Wormkit module now, but nothing compares to having it baked in.

In other words, we need more accesiblity features.

Chicken is right. You can't even host games without setting up a port, typing up some commands in the server lobby, or downloading a wormkit module. That's not intuitive at all. Imagine you are a guy who just bought W:A with his friends to relive some nostalgia. Can you host a game right away without facing any issues? No. And then we wonder why the game is dying. You can't retent new players if you don't have the most fundemental QoL features.

Unfortunately, some players from the ru segment still have problems connecting to games or creating their own hosts. After thinking a little and observing the problem at the time (when I was still playing here), I came to the conclusion that these problems are related to politics.

and the saddest thing is that there is no one to ask how to solve the problem.
Steps has moved away from the players and the community as far as possible to ask him anything, so the players are left alone with the problem.

[Lancelot]

sooner or later it had to happen.
although some continue to play, but mostly these are private games "for half an hour or an hour", after work, for example

the time when players were interested in such things as leveling up their skills, games between clans, leagues, cups and other serious things, is long gone, unfortunately.

how to fix this? there is practically no way to fix it.
even the release of a new patch will not fix this, but will only temporarily add interest to some old players.

as a result - WA will return to those times when there were no tournaments and leagues yet, but players played among themselves for fun