That's pretty cool.
Good job!

So anyone on this site now can change all my times?? I'm not very excited about that
And I don't know if it's possible to make some kinda lock for that,, then it'll be a fine system

No, this just sends an email to the Y!Groups.  It does not automatically change times.  The updater would still see if someone was abusing the system.  The site doesn't even have database access at all.

his system only sends a message to the Yahoo Groups.  It doesn't do anything special, it just saves you the time of writing that submission yourself.  You still have to wait for an updater to update your times.

Some requests I've heard:

- Automatically going to the next field is nice, but also want backspace to take you to the previous one.
- Easier way to submit a full times page.
- Might not want to type in the full name each time.
- Want to be able to paste in from Excel.


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Instead of requiring you to go through the list of 1000 players to find your name, I turned on "autocomplete" which, depending on your browser, will let you fill in the name field very quickly if you do not wish to type the whole thing.

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Like a button on the page that creates all 32 slots to type times in, so you can jam right on down the list? I'd consider it, at least. But this is probably not a super pressing need.

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I'll certainly look into this.

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If your time is fully formatted already, you can actually just paste it in the Comments section below and no one will know you didn't use the handy boxes.

Thanks for the early feedback!

AlexPenev wrote on 06/23/18 at 21:13:50:


Oops. Fixed.

Maybe I will set this new style up with a trial mode button from the main landing page where users normally select their name, and if people seem to like it we can make it the default. I like how you don't have to type the ' and " symbols between each number.  It also doesn't literally pull the entire content of itself by loading from the MKDD website  

AlexPenev wrote on 06/23/18 at 21:13:50:


They look okay on the web view, I guess you're talking about whatever we made that can parse them out of there with the Yahoo API?

Here's a portion of a recent message that was apparently sent using the tool:

Code:

"messageBody":"<div id=\"ygrps-yiv-547033970\">Max Itzkowitz<br/>\n <br/>\nHello.  A couple more prs before the week is over.  Goodbye.  <br/>\n <br/>\nDC: 1:49.928<br/>\nDC: 35.420<br/>\n<br/>\nThanks</div>" 

Are you thinking those \n should all be \r\n instead? Or something else? I can't even remember where to find the materials related to that thing at the moment...

Edit: Found the stuff. It seems to work just fine on the message from above. Maybe I'm misunderstanding. Did you have to manually edit the message before approving it to the Y! Group?

AlexPenev wrote on 06/24/18 at 00:29:37:


Ah, okay.

The current/old version sends plaintext email and only uses \n, maybe Yahoo is getting confused about plaintext email or something.  As of right now I've updated it to send \r\n instead of \n.  So if anyone sends messages after the time of this post before the next update, you can let me know if those came through better.

If that still doesn't help, I can change it to send HTML email and use <br>.

OptimisticEmo wrote on 06/24/18 at 19:09:40:


The submitter page does not have the text information describing the submission process that is present on the Y! Groups page. It could work if we moved that text somewhere else.  I don't think you need to read it every time you go to the submission page, which is why the submission page(s) I created do not have any extra text on them.  Maybe we would only need some minor modifications to the text on the Joining Info page?

The current/old submitter page requires more than 5 pages/files to operate and doesn't even live on the same domain/server that the rest of the site is on.  However, the new style one can get the job done in just 1 HTML page (to submit to a Times Submission Topic on the MB, like this one) or 1 PHP file (to send an email to a Y! group).  So maybe if we switch to the newer format, that single file could be hosted on the actual site.