Ben E Lou
04-11-2008, 07:47 AM
Thanks to Antmeister providing me with the command necessary (amazing that there was just ONE little missing piece), we now have a permanent, auto-updating, cross-forum announcement post. It will update when the database is updated. On gameday, that has been a max so far of five minutes and change after I complete the sim (four minutes when some teams have a bye week). It's a matter of seconds for a midweek stage. The offseason remains to be seen. The announcement post, combined with using the nifty html command elsewhere, will change some processes for the better.
1. Probably most importantly, you can now access gameday information and upload your export from any of the WOOF forums by going to the perma-announcement.
2. Since the first two bits in the perma-announcement are the no-spoiler info and the current league file link, I will no longer post a no spoiler thread.
3. You can grab the updated league file from the perma-announcement post once I've uploaded (usually within 3 minutes of sim time unless I have to make manual changes).
4. Since all I need to do is post HTML code that doesn't spoil it for me, I will now post the results thread, without headlines, once the database is updated (again, usually 5ish minutes after sim time). For those that are around and don't do Solevision or game logs, this will get results to you much, much faster than in the past. However, your box scores will be a bit later because...
5. ...there's still one small limitation to all of this in terms of immediacy: Solecismic HTML. Yes, the no-spoiler thread will be updated with the correct location of the game log within 5 minutes usually, but it takes longer than that to generate and upload Solecismic HTML. There will probably come a time when we're auto-generating box scores and game logs from the database, but team and player pages are higher priorities, since we do have functional box scores and game logs from Solecismic. Expect the box scores and game logs to be there within 10-15 minutes of sim time, usually 10.
1. Probably most importantly, you can now access gameday information and upload your export from any of the WOOF forums by going to the perma-announcement.
2. Since the first two bits in the perma-announcement are the no-spoiler info and the current league file link, I will no longer post a no spoiler thread.
3. You can grab the updated league file from the perma-announcement post once I've uploaded (usually within 3 minutes of sim time unless I have to make manual changes).
4. Since all I need to do is post HTML code that doesn't spoil it for me, I will now post the results thread, without headlines, once the database is updated (again, usually 5ish minutes after sim time). For those that are around and don't do Solevision or game logs, this will get results to you much, much faster than in the past. However, your box scores will be a bit later because...
5. ...there's still one small limitation to all of this in terms of immediacy: Solecismic HTML. Yes, the no-spoiler thread will be updated with the correct location of the game log within 5 minutes usually, but it takes longer than that to generate and upload Solecismic HTML. There will probably come a time when we're auto-generating box scores and game logs from the database, but team and player pages are higher priorities, since we do have functional box scores and game logs from Solecismic. Expect the box scores and game logs to be there within 10-15 minutes of sim time, usually 10.