How many users can your site handle? Would it handle a million users?

btw Kitsune is listed twice, with the same stats. He's ranked 24th and 25th. Good job on the site so far, it seems to update quite often which I like.

MockHamill

Sweden1798 Posts

July 31 2010 09:59 GMT

#83

Could you please change the default "Sort Results by" to Points Descending. My guess is that almost everyone uses that one since it makes more sense to sort by points then the other options.

Angryhorse

Sweden387 Posts

July 31 2010 10:24 GMT

#84

sweet stuff.!

StaR_Robo

Australia229 Posts

July 31 2010 11:29 GMT

#85

@Kahmunrah: It is only a ranking of the players that I have in the database so if we are missing some (and we certainly are) then that affects your absolute ranking. There is a lot of debate about the merits of using the points as a comparator across divisions but it really is the only option we have at the moment. Points are going to be misleading at this early stage but will settle down into a better indicator as people play more games. The earlier we get the database started the easier it will be to keep it maintained as the player base grows.

@MockHamill: The default search at the moment is the ranking which effectively is the Points Descending. I have been adjusting when rankings are recalculated and now it is virtually regenerated every time the data for a league is changed .. the longest you would get before an update would be from the start to the end of updating a division of players which isn't very long. I thought about removing the ranking number and just generating an index against the display order but then I thought that there are times when people are doing searches (eg by race) when they would want to see the actual rankings of the players as part of the display.

Goobus

Hong Kong587 Posts

July 31 2010 11:32 GMT

#86

I don't see why Blizzard has to make it so hard for dataminers to compile rankings like this. The way I see it, the noncompetitive players won't even know about the site, so showing their true ranking on this site wouldn't really hurt their gaming experience at all. On the other hand, by allowing data miners to compile data, they could satisfy the hardcore segment of their user base...Blizzard really doesn't go through the motions before they implement retarded shit, do they?

CynanMachae

Canada1459 Posts

July 31 2010 11:51 GMT

#87

Good work there, thanks!

MockHamill

Sweden1798 Posts

July 31 2010 13:21 GMT

#88

Really great site!

A few bugs to fix though, for instance duplicates:
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Kapoue

Canada15 Posts

July 31 2010 17:20 GMT

#89

You could parse the battle.net forums for more users. Ok, you get mostly noobs by it's gonna be them you are gonna be missing in your ranking since you can get the platinium players with replays.

You can also browse the 2v2 scene. You take a division and get all the profiles from all the players and all their allies and their allie's allies. And the division in which these allie's allies play, etc....

Saracen

United States5139 Posts

July 31 2010 17:37 GMT

#90

Thanks a ton for this. Great work

Batch

Sweden692 Posts

July 31 2010 18:01 GMT

#91

Some input from a fellow developer, why don't you just create a spider to gather names?

Since you can see every player in a certain players division you could start with a player and pick up the id and name of each opponent in their division. You would probably have at least someone added from most of the divisions. This could be complimented with the manual add and you would have full coverage in no time.

Edit: This was practically what Kapoue proposed two posts up. I missed his post when reading through the thread the first time. :O

Ruthless

United States492 Posts

July 31 2010 18:59 GMT

#92

mining data frequently by lots of people could slow servers i suppose

StaR_Robo

Australia229 Posts

July 31 2010 22:21 GMT

#93

Yeah I plan to mine the team data to broaden the coverage since I have a reasonable chunk of players in the database now. I have a few bugs I'm trying to squash with the updating where I am occasionally getting a weird dataset being returned and then I will expand it out.

TheAngelofDeath

United States2033 Posts

July 31 2010 22:48 GMT

#94

Very nice. Especially the submit a Bnet url to add. I like it a lot. Thanks.

oldahe

Austria534 Posts

August 01 2010 00:16 GMT

#95

when i look myself up it says that the last update was more than 10 hours ago. how can i update?
thx for a great tool!

StaR_Robo

Australia229 Posts

August 01 2010 00:59 GMT

#96

On August 01 2010 09:16 oldahe wrote:
when i look myself up it says that the last update was more than 10 hours ago. how can i update?
thx for a great tool!

I'm doing some debugging so I'm not running full updates atm - should be back updating in a few hours

Dionyseus

United States2068 Posts

August 01 2010 01:03 GMT

#97

I'm getting this error when I hit the search button:

Incorrect access
You cannot access this file this way.

StaR_Robo

Australia229 Posts

August 01 2010 01:09 GMT

#98

refresh your page

Ryuu314

United States12679 Posts

August 01 2010 01:10 GMT

#99

On August 01 2010 10:03 Dionyseus wrote:
I'm getting this error when I hit the search button:

Incorrect access
You cannot access this file this way.

That happened to me too. Just refresh the page.

EDIT: beaten

StaR_Robo

Australia229 Posts

August 01 2010 01:16 GMT

#100

Yeah I've changed the error message to reflect that you should refresh the page if you get that error.