Introduction

Welcome! Or welcome back. This is UnitedLadder, probably looking a little different now.

So, what happened? Many things. The entire website has been reworked since the last update, and I do mean "entire" when I say that. Rebuilding the whole website with a completely different toolset is not particularly easy, but I still apologise for the delay. Maybe AI could do it faster, as Mizu keeps suggesting.

Anyway, you might have a question, something like "What for?" now. For those curious, I shall deliver my response: it had to be done. The longer the wait, the worse the consequences would be. More features would make for less readable code, any more pages would lead to another crazy spaghetti hellspawn. Not using any frameworks has many caveats, actually. Inconsistent UI/UX is just part of that. Additionally, the language the previous site was written it held it back quite a bit. I personally don't mind PHP, I've used it for quite a bit of scripting some years back. It is not a bad language per-se, but it's got its fair share of limitations. Having everything run in one thread is pretty terrible. Would you love to wait for a minute for the leaderboards to load? I highly doubt it, even though there are many masochists in the community it seems. Also, imagine not having proper templates... some pages would take days to just finish. So yeah, the code was not the greatest, the language the said code was written in is not the best either, and the styling... oh the styling. Something had to be done, and done it was.

That's all, pretty much. All that yapping for nothing, huh? Perhaps. What matters, though, is that the site itself is back, and it is better than before.

Changelog

Technically, everything changed. But here's an actual changelog for the continuity's sake:

• Brand new look.
• Fully functional mobile UI.
• Fetching data is now about 10 times faster.
• All fetched data is now cached upon request, cache is flushed at 2PM CET.
• Each leaderboard returns TOP 100 players if possible.
• Multiplayer leaderboards now feature separate environments.
• All leaderboards allow for you to go 10 pages forwards/backwards now.
• Zones are now hidden on the left side of the screen under the globe button, no longer occupying the leaderboards' space.
• New tracks page, including most, if not all, of the official Nadeo campaign maps. Track UID can also be set manually at the very top of that same page. That can be used to get access to the "My Campaign" tracks' leaderboards.

And some more smaller things:

• Dark/Light theme switch.
• Nicknames can be copied in one click on the lookup page.
• Nickname colour-shifting background on the lookup page can now be frozen with the buttons on the right.

Do keep in mind that some features were discontinued for simplicity, or were not implemented yet. Bugs may also pop up here and there, so be on the lookout for those and report them appropriately, please.

-wiseraven