Community Feedback: how can the site improve?

[fes_77]

T-perm contest

oll/pll time attack

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

Currently, my official results page says that my MBLD PR is 126723:38.00, where it should be 24/25 56:58. I've seen the same weird thing happening at other official results pages, for example Graham Siggins supposedly has a PR of 66724:27.02. FMC results are also weird sometimes (I believe only for single though, FMC mean seems OK).
I think it would be helpful if this was fixed.

Maybe this wasn't seen, or is this not possible to fix?

Also, I would love to see the mobile layout of the weekly comps results page fixed because it straight up looks like a mess. I would understand if that might be too much work (I don't have much experience with website layouts lol) but if it would be possible that would be awesome.

Lastly, if you go to the rankings for weekly comps and you click 'all persons' it still only shows 100 people.

Sorry if I'm complaining too much haha

 

[Mike Hughey]

Currently, my official results page says that my MBLD PR is 126723:38.00, where it should be 24/25 56:58. I've seen the same weird thing happening at other official results pages, for example Graham Siggins supposedly has a PR of 66724:27.02. FMC results are also weird sometimes (I believe only for single though, FMC mean seems OK).
I think it would be helpful if this was fixed.

Maybe this wasn't seen, or is this not possible to fix?

Also, I would love to see the mobile layout of the weekly comps results page fixed because it straight up looks like a mess. I would understand if that might be too much work (I don't have much experience with website layouts lol) but if it would be possible that would be awesome.

Lastly, if you go to the rankings for weekly comps and you click 'all persons' it still only shows 100 people.

Sorry if I'm complaining too much haha

The official results issue is one that pjk will have to fix, as it is in code I do not have access to.

I agree the mobile layout of the weekly comps results is a mess; I played with it a little bit a while back but there isn't a straightforward way to fix it; it will take some serious work to find a layout that's nice for it. I can probably try to take inspiration from the WCA live results page for mobile, but they have the advantage there of not needing to display comments, so it's easier for them to have a nicer display. I suppose I could cut the comments out in mobile displays, but I'm not sure I like that option.

As for the rankings page, I am afraid I never have had time to really finish that page. I provided the option pulldowns so that I could eventually implement them, but I never have gotten around to them yet. So for now it mostly ignores the choices.

I am about to try to get back into coding for the site soon. Unfortunately, the first thing I need to do is clean up the code so it works in the latest version of PHP, since the entire Forum is currently running an older version. Once I get that done, then I can start working on some improvements. Although I'm afraid there are several more important improvements I will have to get to first before I can address yours here. But hopefully someday I can get to them.[/QUOTE]

 

[Deleted member 36445]

QUICK TIP

if you want to quote a specific part of a message, there is no need to quote everything then remove the other parts.
simply select the text on a post then hit que "+ Quote" button.
if you want to quote multiple parts of the same post you have to do this individually because if you click the button again in the same post it removes the quote. so just quote the part, insert into post and proceed.

 

[Thom S.]

if you want to quote a specific part of a message, there is no need to quote everything then remove the other parts.

I always get angry because other forums don't have this.

 

[An Animating Cuber]

I've seen a lot of people use the youtube link feature incorrectly where they put the whole link instead of the bit after youtube.com, I think the feature should just be copying the whole youtube link to avoid confusion.

 

[Deleted member 36445]

I've seen a lot of people use the youtube link feature incorrectly where they put the whole link instead of the bit after youtube.com, I think the feature should just be copying the whole youtube link to avoid confusion.

Yeah or have a sort of smart feature that removes the first part of the url if needed, then it would work with both the id or the full url

 

[An Animating Cuber]

I think WR/CR/NR solves should me moved out of puzzle video gallery because I see most people use it to post about recent records instead of video of records.

 

[Thom S.]

I think WR/CR/NR solves should me moved out of puzzle video gallery because I see most people use it to post about recent records instead of video of records.

While I agree that there is a possibility for
"WR solves Discussion" Board or similar, from what I see typically these threads get posted with a picture of the result and the corresponding video gets posted within the first 5 replies.

 

[Cuber.Hello.com(:]

Yeah or have a sort of smart feature that removes the first part of the url if needed, then it would work with both the id or the full url

man it would be a lot easier to rick roll people...


pls do it

 

[JDAW6]

Is my pfp not enough FOR U? I spam 24/7 and my pvp is a big rickroll

 

[xyzzy]

Make me a mod so I can delete spam and evict all the posts that don't belong in the "Puzzle Theory" section (which has been seeing a lot of misuse as of late).

Edit: I am a mod now (thanks, pjk), but only for the Puzzle Theory section.

 

[Dan the Beginner]

Sorry, if this is the wrong place to ask this question or if this has been asked before.

How can I search these forums effectively if it rejects search keywords shorter than 4 alphabets? I tried to search for anything on a new limited edition WRM V9 cube made by Pi Cubes. So I used for keywords for my search,

Pi, WRM, V9, edition.


and previously I have tried to search for another new cube, the MGC EVO II, with the same result.

If there's is a way to do searches like these, please let me know and also include them in the instructions when Search is selected please.

Also, I just remembered, I have also tried to find out about the two new Gan UI cubes being released.

 

[VincentCuber]

Is my pfp not enough FOR U? I spam 24/7 and my pvp is a big rickroll

Yeah at least it’s not anymore

 

[Spencer131]

Sorry, if this is the wrong place to ask this question or if this has been asked before.

How can I search these forums effectively if it rejects search keywords shorter than 4 alphabets? I tried to search for anything on a new limited edition WRM V9 cube made by Pi Cubes. So I used for keywords for my search,

Pi, WRM, V9, edition.


and previously I have tried to search for another new cube, the MGC EVO II, with the same result.

If there's is a way to do searches like these, please let me know and also include them in the instructions when Search is selected please.

Also, I just remembered, I have also tried to find out about the two new Gan UI cubes being released.

you can try putting site:speedsolving.com into google and then type the rest of your search after that

 

[Dan the Beginner]

you can try putting site:speedsolving.com into google and then type the rest of your search after that

Thanks, Spencer, but it does not work on my Android phone. It seems Google just passes the keywords to the site, and relies on the site to do the search.

 

[J41]

Any chance we could lock old WR threads after a certain time? Somewhat jarring having them come up as new posts when they're old records, particularly in the middle of big competitions.

 

[NebraskanSpeedsolver]

It would be cool to have a one day mid-week comp for only certain events ( random each week ) sorta like WCA comps

 

[ender9994]

Any chance of getting additional [WR] tags with different colors for [WR2] and [WR3]. Would be nice to be able to distinguish actual world records from other results that get tagged as [WR] even if they are 2nd/3rd best.

 

[OtaMota]

Any chance we could lock old WR threads after a certain time? Somewhat jarring having them come up as new posts when they're old records, particularly in the middle of big competitions.

The WCA forums locks them 15 days after last reply, but I am fine with a longer period like 30 days for example.