Development Log#4
By y2kid
Posted Nov. 28, 2022, 1:43 p.m.
Make sure that you need our most recent update. It features a crucial new replay sharing policy, and some QoL changes.
Replay sharing and visibility
We are experimenting if a new replay visibility change should be rolled-out or not. In the past we have received many requests from participating players asking us that we allow everyone to access everyone else's replays from the league. We cannot do that and will not do that. Here is the rationale. We want everyone who participates in CPL to feel welcome and not at a disadvantage. We understand that CPL is an educational league before everything else but even still some of our participants do not want to share their replays as they see that as a disadvantage and we respect that. However, there has now been a critical amount of players who also want to see replays of other players, so with this new change we are trying to account for everyone's needs!We are now entering a data gathering process to gauge what portion of the community truly supports this idea. We have added a new "Public replays" field on everyone's profiles. This field is enabled by default. If you are happy with sharing your replays - good news - you have nothing to do. Check-in again on Dec 5th when the first week of the preseason begins. However if you do not wish to share your replays. Make sure you untick the Public replays box in your profile settings and then hit save.
Unless there is a huge opt-out wave, once the preseason begins, we will enable this and allow players to download their replays if they have given a consent about it in their profile.
Other changes
Changes to "Find a Game"
If you have followed the news in Development Log #2 you should be aware that we allow users to link their accounts to a recovery email, and discord. We introduced both of these, so that you can login using passwordless methods and recover your password if you happen to forget it.
Now we are taking it a step further! We allow players that have their discord account linked and use the webapp's "Find a game" feature to be @'ed when posting into the Discord server "Looking-for-game" channel.
Note: In order to use this feature you will need to have your discord account linked to your web app profile! If you have not already, there is an detailed tutorial how to do this in Dev log#2 or you alternatively you can follow the link here.
Country Flag changes
One of the features that we rolled out with CPL9 sign-ups has seen a huge use. It is the feature that allows players to pick a country that they wish to be representing in CPL9. There were some requests that we add more countries and we did that. We are now using all countries provided by flagpedia.net. We may keep expanding the list in the future and will announce here when we do so.