My girlfriend and I have been working on a raid rankings site called Raider.IO. Given that this is a new website we’d love to get community feedback as far as suggestions, bug reports, and various thoughts (good or bad) if you have them. All of your input is valuable to us!
I'll be maintaining this thread to show our weekly updates as we make them.
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[UPDATES -- UPDATES -- UPDATES]
January 27, 2017
- Bosses on rankings pages are now sorted from left to right in the order in which the guild defeated those bosses
- Usability feature on the rankings pages to let you more easily scan the order in which guilds are killing bosses, done by hovering over a boss icon in the list.
February 7, 2017
Addition of realm pages, accessible via "Realms" in the nav bar:
- A list of all realms in a given region, grouped by the connected realm they are a part of
- The type, faction balance, language, and time zones for the realms
- And a chart indicating the distribution of raid progress for that realm at the chosen difficulty
February 14, 2017
- Add Guild page supports Realm Auto Complete
- View Time Since Guild's Previous Boss Kill on Rankings
February 21, 2017
- Mobile support added
March 1, 2017
Filter the Realms list to specific Time Zones or Languages:
- See only Oceanic realms: https://raider.io/the-nighthold/real...mezone/oceanic
- See only realms in US Eastern, Central, Mountain, or Pacific time zones: https://raider.io/the-nighthold/real...one/us-eastern
- See realms designated for a specific language: https://raider.io/the-nighthold/real...language/ru-ru
March 7, 2017
- Search for guilds, realms, bosses with auto suggested matches
- Disbanded guilds now hidden from rankings, with the exception of the Hall of Fame page
March 14, 2017
First iteration of guild pages:
- Guild progression across entire tier visible at a glance in the header
- Each raid's World / Region / Realm rankings visible together
- Per-boss World / Region / Realm rankings visible by clicking a row
- You can click any of the ranks on a Guild Page to jump to that page in the appropriate leaderboard
- Ability to queue guild directly from guild page
March 22, 2017
- Fixed a bug that was redirecting the realm rankings to the US rankings on individual guild pages
- Reformatted the timestamps so they are easier to read
- The guilds are now sorted in the search and shouldn't shuffle around like they did previously. At the moment the algorithm is trying to show the most "relevant" guilds first, but this might need some tweaking.
- Searching for a realm now returns connected realm results as well
- ASCII characters are treated as regular characters in the search field. This means if you search for "Mirage" you'll also find a match for the guild "Mîragè"
March 27, 2017
- Rosters have now been added to the guild pages, for first kills only (we plan on expanding this). There are problems we are working through where alts are showing up multiple times on kills - hoping to fix that soon.
- Connected realms now pull up in the search
April 4, 2017
- We have added resource links (example: relevant raid guides from wowhead and fatboss) to the sidebars on all rankings pages
- Speed improvements and bug fixes with our crawler
April 11, 2017
- Fixed bug where clicking Next/Prev on the rankings list would always scroll you back to the top of the page
- Fixed bug on guild page where the 'right chevron' that you click on didn't rotate to be a 'down chevron' after clicking it
- Added sidebar links to guild details page (latest raid links and general raiding links)
- Crawler performance updates: the crawler will now not re-crawl/process characters if they haven't been updated since the last time they were crawled
April 18, 2017
- Implemented the back end changes necessary to begin scanning new types of content - not visible to the user on the front end but important work nonetheless!
- We also took some community suggestions under advisement and modified the next/prev buttons on the ranking pages even further. Hopefully much nicer to use now.
April 26, 2017
- Character pages: View various progression details about characters by clicking on their names from any of the roster views.
- Character search: We have updated the search functionality to include the ability to search for individual characters.
- Add new character: From the same page you use to add a new guild to our database, you can now add your characters. http://raider.io/add
- Mythic+ support: You can view a character's Mythic+ experience by visiting their character page. This will provide details about all the ranked Mythic+ runs the player has completed (important note: you must rank on Blizzard's official Mythic+ leaderboard to have runs show up here). It also provides a detailed view of the composition of the group, including the usage of: Average item level/Artifact Traits, Legendaries, Trinkets, and Tier Set Bonuses. Example page: http://www.raider.io/characters/us/s...usher/Fiveguys
You can also link directly to a Mythic+ run to share them with your friends by clicking the share button in the top right corner of the run. Example page: http://www.raider.io/mythic-plus/runs/753047
May 4, 2017
- Mythic+ leaderboards (see post here for details: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...1#post45602999)
- Increased mobile support for the M+ pages
- FAQ updated and given a place in the top bar navigation
May 5, 2017
- Added various Mythic+ links to sidebar on pages with Mythic+ data
- Added full resolution clear time to Mythic+ pages (showing milliseconds). This is on-hover on the rankings pages, and just listed out on an individual run's page.
- By default realms that are part of a connected realm will link to the connected realm when clicked. The only exception here is on the Realms listing page where you can individually click a realm to see it's page directly.
- Updated titles for all pages to represent what you are actually seeing on the page
- Trailing slashes will be automatically removed from the end of character/guild URLs
- Backend crawler speed improvements
- Added 404 "Page Not Found" Page
May 16, 2017
- Created a M+ leaderboard that merges all of the instances. This still needs a small visual update to include a column for the dungeon names, but the information is there for users to browse.
- Added the option to view the Mythic+ leaderboards in "strict" mode, which completely eliminates all runs that did not make the timer from the list.
- Added the ability to filter runs by affixes. Previously if you viewed a M+ dungeon's leaderboard you'd see all of the runs compared against eachother. You can still view it this way (it is the default setting) but if you want to drill down deeper you have the option to do so. The filters can be applied to both the default and strict leaderboards.
- We have updated tool tips in the "Run Time" column to show the amount of time a run went over or under the timer.
- You can queue up a server's m+ leaderboard for a scan on our queuing page. This is particularly useful for players that complete a run at the end of the week, close to the time that Blizzard resets their leaderboard. It's the best way to guarantee we get your run in before it's inaccessible.
- We have added better (less obtrusive) social media icons to the navigation bar.
- The FAQ has been updated with a little more information
- Fixed an issue where we weren't tracking M+ runs done by groups consisting of players entirely on Azjol-Nerub (sorry guys!)
- Fixed issue where characters with blank names sometimes showing up in M+ runs.
- Fixed issue with the dropdown navigation bars highlighting and staying highlighted in odd ways
- Fixed a bug with modal errors using white text on a white background, making the error message invisible
- Backend crawler performance optimizations
May 25, 2017
- Revised Mythic Plus Leaderboards: Timed Runs Leaderboard, All Runs Leaderboard, and Characters Leaderboard
- Per-character Mythic+ Rankings using a newly designed scoring algorithm
- See post here for the full details: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...1#post45863670
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Some people may immediately wonder why anyone would bother making a site like this when one already exists. I have a few answers to that.
1.) It’s always good to have more options. Back in the day people said that same thing about Wowhead because everyone was used to Thottbot. Just because something out there already does the job, doesn’t mean there isn’t room to improve upon the idea or to try something a little different.
2.) Our guild is not a mythic raiding guild and we like the idea of people across multiple difficulties being represented within their respective “tiers”. This isn’t fully implemented yet but is definitely a priority for us. The idea of going to a rankings page and seeing how you compare against guilds similar to your own is very appealing to us.
3.) It’s a labor of love. We’ve been playing WoW since Vanilla and have run successful fansites in the past. We like doing it and between the two of us (she’s an artist and I'm a programmer) we feel like we have the tools to make the sort of site that *we* want to use, and we hope that other people will want to use as well!
All that said, we’re really appreciate any feedback you folks might have for us. The more constructive input we get in these early developmental stages the stronger we can make the website become as we put more time into it.
You can find the site here: https://raider.io