I recently learned that the EOL website will gather all (finished) runs. This means every time you finish will be listed in a table on the EOL website. The only exceptions are cup levels if the cup author has selected some hidden mode (or something like that I think?). But other external contests like OLP, ALP, Skintatious, Kopasite will be included in a table on the EOL website.
I do not like this at all. It will completely kill all other websites and contests because everybody will play EOL, and who will bother uploading a record to a site when your time is already listed in the EOL website with every other finished time on that level? I mean websites like Kopasite, the ALP recordtable (MopoCorner), OLP recordtable, the internal recordtables, skintatious; they will all slowly die because nobody wants multiple recordtables on diffrent places!
I was hoping the idea of EOL would be to replace #battle and not replace the entire elma scene, because one of my biggest elma passions is creating websites and make statistics for other users to enjoy. Why don't we just save the battled times/levels to the EOL website? I do honestly think it's quite daft to stretch the website so much that it will replace everything.
Don't get me wrong here, I really appreciate the work the crew has put into making EOL, but I do not want EOL to have a monopoly on everything... When all times are stored in the website what can we webmanagers compete with? Additional statistics? nah, without a complete recordtable it will all be useless. Rather than just complaining I would like to contribute with some solutions:
1) Make some RSS feed so that other websites can use the info the EOL website uses, thus will make the recordtables identical. This can however be a problem for non automated websites and it will take away recordtables (#) unless you do some pro guru coding
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2) Make a feature to block a level pattern. For example admins have rights to block all times from a level pattern (e.g. niN???.lev) and users can apply for blockage.
3 - my personal favourite - ) Keep the EOL site about Battles. Only share stats and times from battled levels. In other word, use EOL as a replacement for #battle.
Please discuss, because everyone who feels like I do need to say something before it's too late! Kopaka asked me to create this topic because he wanted to know what the scene thought. This is important to me at least! I want to keep making websites!