Hey all! We've got a nice big list of changes that took place over the last week.
June 13, 2017
- Support for Mythic+ Seasons! With the release of 7.2.5, we wanted to be sure to have player's scores reset back to zero, and start accumulating fresh again. You can now see throughout the site places where you can change the active season. Also, when on a character profile page we will include a highlight for their previous season's Mythic+ score if they had one.
- We've partnered with the great guys at the Mythic Plus Friends Discord to power some of their channels with special Raider.IO integrations. Now, over on Mythic Plus Friends, you'll get alerted whenever the new weekly affixes are confirmed. Additionally, you'll be alerted for new record breaking runs are made in each dungeon for 7.2.5 (these must be at least a +15 M). We will have these webhooks available for everyone else to use some time next week.
- Mythic+ scoring balance adjustment. After lots of feedback and reviewing our data we've decided to make a change to part of our scoring algorithm to lessen the penalty on overtime runs. The specific change we made was to reduce the immediate penalty a run is given when it goes over time. Previously, the run would lose 2 "mythic level" worth of points, but we've reduced this to 1 now. The decay over time when beyond the timer is just as it had been, so if your run goes over you'll still notice the points dropping at a steady clip. The overall effect of this is that overtime runs will be worth on average about 10% more than their previous value. These scoring changes should be fully reflected in the leaderboards later tonight June 9th.
- Removed Emerald Nightmare & Trial of Valor Heroic/Normal rankings. Mythic rankings for these two raids will still exist. These two raids occurred before Raider.IO launched, so we never had the opportunity to scan them while they were current. This meant that our kill timestamps for normal and heroic were always going to be wrong. We still show the progress summary for these raids (e.g. 7/7 H), but we no longer show the detailed timestamps or group compositions for these raids & difficulties.
- Significant performance improvements to Hall of Fame page load times
- Improvements to our deployment process to allow us to deploy new updates without the site going briefly inaccessible
- Added sample size to the bottom of Mythic+ leaderboard charts to provide a basis for the shown percentages
- Added "Highlights" to the Character's Page header. These are three "top stats" about the character's progress. Typically this will be their Mythic+ Score and their highest progression from the most recent raids. Since this is visible at the top of the page, you can pretty easily check a player's score by just searching for them and glancing at the header (no need for scrolling).
- Added tooltips to the Raid Progress timeline to help express its meaning a bit better. You can see these by hovering a guild or the "# More" text
- More elegantly format guild pages if a guild has no raid progression. Thanks @ben for the report.
- Misc mobile formatting improvements, primarily to the header of guild pages
- Added Public APIs for looking up guild information and for retrieving the latest affixes for a given region. Additionally, we updated lots of the documentation on our API.
- Searching for an exact realm name now shows it as first in the results. Thanks Cohumulone.
- Stopped showing decimal places on player scores in a run roster. You can still see the more precise score on each individual player's profile.
- Changed title of main tab for Mythic+ > Mythic Plus
- Fixed problem with the dropdown menu bar often appearing on top of everything else (even the search window). Thanks for all who reported this issue.
- Fixed problem where when an error occurs the modal will appear partially under the rest of the page.
Get ready for ToS updates next week!