FtXCommando wrote:It's FAF. Solutions that don't require coding will always be preferable to solutions that require coding at the short term. Until a dev expresses any interest at the ability to introduce some sort of tagging system for news, all we can do is create some sort of biweekly newsletter that provides people with news in broad, clear categories that they can read at their leisure.
The idea is to have a sort of system where people can post their own individual news during the week, however, the weekend would be reserved for an official newsletter/news from FAF itself.
In regards to the replay idea, dunno, I just think it's redundant. Like, all we have for high-level replay analysis is essentially Jagged. Sure, other people have casted a few games (blodir, mephi, thomas) but they're irregular or dead channels now. Personally, I take it to mean that there isn't much of a point to appeal to this market. Especially when it will require like what, a team of 5-6 dudes regularly going thru tons of replays to skim which ones are worth watching?
We have tournaments to get a concentration of high level games to watch and play in, and we have casters that can introduce people to these games in either a casual or analytical style. Are we trying to appeal to the new player that has somehow squeezed out all the juice in jagged/ta/heaven/whatever videos and has no interest/idea to watch streams of high level games and is also too dumb to figure out how to search for 1800+ in the replay vault? It's just an idea that has crossed the spoonfeeding bridge to the point where I'm dumping more effort in a week than I'll see the idea give in output during its entire existence.
Im not saying your solution is bad i just want to make sure the news category thing is something devs wouldve at least heard of. Can't code something you dont even think about.
As for the replay idea i dont think its redundant, and there are already quite a few people going through most of the top 1v1 replays, just ask them to drop a replay id if they find something cool. If you dont want that then can pull a replay automatically after sorting by highest rated recent ladder game with regard for length (ideally weighted for rating and length with the map size in mind). I dont get your appeal argument at all, the point isnt to appeal to a wide audience, the point is to catch attention and sieve out those few tryhards who might actually climb up to 1800+ in this dark day and age of 2020. And yes, ive been on faf for a good amount of time and the average faf coombrain is indeed incapable of filtering replays by 1800+, this isnt helped by the clunky replay search ui of the new official client. Hell i wouldnt be surprised to hear half the faf population doesnt even know replay vault exists. As for whether its worth the effort, a feature like this is a very small side project in comparison to matchmaker or ice or bulky api/client work, if nobody in the client gang wants to do it its fine, but again dont see why its not something they should know is on the table, especially the low effort automatic version as that would skip the work of adding an interface of putting up the replay up there manually.