New features 2025

[Duplode]

A minor update (way more minor than the ones by @dreadnaut in last year's thread): in the sent replays stats page, the bar chart for specific races now includes days before the official start (a common case being the Sundays when a track is posted), and subtly highlights the days in which the different phases of the race begin (official start, non-public days, and quiet days).

[dreadnaut]

Behind the scenes, we've moved all results and replays to a new database table. That sounds dry, but it cleans up a bunch of sharp edges, and will make things easier in the future.

Two minor changes are immediately visible:
- ties appear correctly on both track and season scoreboards
- teams on the track scoreboards are now links!

The scoreboards for 2001-2003 are currently empty. I'm waiting for the end of ZCT285 before I copy the old data to the new table. Once that is done, 2001-2003 submission will be included in the statistics!

[dreadnaut]

Recent season scoreboard have gained tiny medals, showing podium results! (pre-2022 pages coming soon) The same medals also appear on the profile page 🥇🥈🥉

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(as usual, you might need to hard-refresh the page to see the changes, e.g., Ctrl-F5)

[KyLiE]

Nice work!  Thanks for the update!

[alanrotoi]

niiiice work!!

[Cas]

Cool! 

[Duplode]

The scoreboards for 2001-2003 are currently empty. I'm waiting for the end of ZCT285 before I copy the old data to the new table. Once that is done, 2001-2003 submission will be included in the statistics!

As advertised, those scoreboard pages are now filled again, and several of the stats already pull 2001-2003 data 

[dreadnaut]

The statistics will also pick up some of the early years, although the number of submitted replay will remain artificially low — we don't have full records

[dreadnaut]

@zaqrack designed most of the tracks in the first 15 years of the competition (🤯) and, that being the default, the website didn't show his authorship. I've fixed this hole with the information I could find in the wiki, but I think at least one track (ZCT046) was incorrectly labelled there.

If those who might remember could have a look at the list, I can correct any mistakes! Otherwise, enjoy the long list of tracks created by Zak!

- https://zak.stunts.hu/pipsqueaks/zak+mckracken#tracks

(argh, the "space in the name" bug is not entirely fixed, I'll look into the another day)

[dreadnaut]

I've added Unicode support to the forum chat, bring all the emojis 🎉

At the same time, I've removed or turned off a bunch of things that made it behave more like IRC than a simple chat. Let me know what you think:

- Made the ChatBot less chatty, so it doesn't announce login / logout
- Disabled all channels except the main one: since 2008, there's been only ~100 messages in other channels, and the largest chunk were spam

Also:
- Removed the zebra background
- Removed the sound code, which required Flash and stopped working a decade ago
- Removed some extra bits we'll never use (e.g., Ruby server support, shoutbox support)

[Erik Barros]

thank you for the updates

[alanrotoi]

As advertised, those scoreboard pages are now filled again, and several of the stats already pull 2001-2003 data 

Thank you! Those scoreboards shows a lot of learning and fun!