New features 2026

[dreadnaut]

New year, new thread, new improvements! (See also: 2025)

Let's open with PTB support:

- there's finally a place for it the database
- Podium Time Bonus points appear on track and season scoreboards ✅

To get PTB in I had to tidy up the way we handle all bonus points, which cleaned up a few things, and now Leading Time, Time Difference, and Endurance bonuses appear in the right seasons through history. For example, 2024 includes LTB and TDB.

[dreadnaut]

I'm making some sweeping changes to some back-end code 👀 Let me know if anything looks odd.

[dreadnaut]

Playing with a new layout for the track list, while I try to fix the display of podium ties...

[MiDiaN]

Love the card view instead of list. I played with Gimp and tried one variant quick and came up with this using 4 divs instead of 3.

[HerrNove]

The card view is very nice! I'd also like to have a page showing all ZakStunts tracks ever (not filtered by year/author).

Other topic: the forum still writes "pipsqueak" instead of "rаcer". I'm sure it was a fun joke at the time, but after many years it has become a little stale. Can we do without it? The replacement is also confusing when one wants to use "rаcer" to refer to a rаcing game.

[dreadnaut]

The card view is very nice! I'd also like to have a page showing all ZakStunts tracks ever (not filtered by year/author).

Something like this? https://zak.stunts.hu/tracks/all

Other topic: the forum still writes "pipsqueak" instead of "rаcer". I'm sure it was a fun joke at the time, but after many years it has become a little stale. Can we do without it? The replacement is also confusing when one wants to use "rаcer" to refer to a rаcing game.

sigh, I suppose we're old enough now 🥲

[HerrNove]

The card view is very nice! I'd also like to have a page showing all ZakStunts tracks ever (not filtered by year/author).

Something like this? https://zak.stunts.hu/tracks/all

Yes, perfect! Is it a new addition or something I had failed to see till now?

[dreadnaut]

Just added! Still work in progress though, and it should probably sit at /tracks 🤔

[HerrNove]

In case the wishlist is open (a big if with a 0-year toddler in dreadnaut's home!), I wish we could give decimal ratings to tracks. My favourite method is the one by BoardGameGeek, that allows to click on the stars if one wants to award a whole number, or to type a decimal number in a textbox. The number is rounded down in the histograms but the decimals count towards the average rating.

There are many tracks I do not rate because they would be worth 3½ or 4½ stars in my opinion, and rounding both upwards and downwards feels wrong.

[MiDiaN]

Would it be possible to add a live countdown timer for the Quiet Replays reveal?

Since everyone is in different time zones, it would make it easier to know exactly when the reveal happens. For many of us in Europe, the reveal is in the middle of the night, so I'd also suggest having it automatically trigger 5 minutes after the scheduled time instead of requiring an admin to manually press a button. This would make things easier for the admins as well.