Sounds nice, indeed
Unifying the scoreboard database would make not only browsing but also statistics gathering (either manual, by the users, or automated, server-side) much easier. Would it also mean we might have the graphical scoreboard for old races too?
Mingva's suggestions about the pipsqueak profiles are nice as well, but they imply unifying profile pages from different years, and I guess that might too troublesome difficult to pull off. And since he also mentioned dropdown lists, one minor usability issue is that at pages such as Sent Replays Analysis or News Archive the dropdown list does not retain your latest selection. That is most noticeable on the Sent Replays page, as whenever you're checking consecutive races you need to set the year every time you change to the next track.
Since the buzz about Z100 is already on, let me ask a silly technical question: will the track file really be called ZCT100.TRK? I know it looks awesome, but having three-digit file names would cause trouble for archiving purposes due to alphanumeric order (the track selection menu it would end up as: ZCT09, ZCT10, ZCT100, ... , ZCT20, etc.). I suggest considering the alternative of naming the track files as ZCTA0, ZCTA1, etc. Maybe it is too confusing, but at least we would avoid any sorting issues of that kind until ZCT359


Quote from: alanrotoi on June 26, 2009, 04:51:20 PM
Anyway we must think about a big advertising or else for zct100. It must be the best race ever and with the most quantity of pipsqueaks possible
Since the buzz about Z100 is already on, let me ask a silly technical question: will the track file really be called ZCT100.TRK? I know it looks awesome, but having three-digit file names would cause trouble for archiving purposes due to alphanumeric order (the track selection menu it would end up as: ZCT09, ZCT10, ZCT100, ... , ZCT20, etc.). I suggest considering the alternative of naming the track files as ZCTA0, ZCTA1, etc. Maybe it is too confusing, but at least we would avoid any sorting issues of that kind until ZCT359
