This thread will be used to inform people on the current state of times updating, to correct potential mistakes by the updating team, and to help people who may have trouble submitting times.

Most of what you need to know about submitting times can be found on this link but there are other basic rules to follow as well :

- Avoid typoing stuff like track abbreviations or times as much as possible. If the updaters can't figure out which track or what time you meant, that record will simply be discarded and you'll have to resubmit it !
- Don't submit times for other people, unless you have a very good reason to (ex: cannot understand English language like some Japanese players) and have asked for permission in this thread beforehand.
- Avoid flooding our YahooGroup e-mail like every hour with every single of your improvements. It's quite pointless as the charts will only usually get updated once a day, and it's some waste of time for the updaters. You won't get a sanction for doing this, but you may have some angry messages instead
- You may write only one time per line in your e-mails. Writing multiple times in one line will cause issues with the parser we use for updating, so it's an extra waste of time for the updaters.

If you are unable to submit to YahooGroups for whatever reason, post your times in this thread instead !

Flaps are gone, right?

Thanks, and please forgive my ignorance.

FinalFight wrote on 06/08/14 at 19:45:45:

It's been a long time since I joined the LB, and they have quite changed since then, so I can imagine how it must be trickier than before. I see you found a way though

Rhodechill wrote on 06/08/14 at 20:26:35:

Yes.

ρf☆Pαμl wrote on 06/09/14 at 00:12:55:

Mostly for archiving purposes. It's better to have everything in one place rather than spread around. Also it's naturally harder to get people to join a board (a bit more intimidating) than to send e-mails.

There are still some problems but I can deal with them easily now. Future updaters might find this annoying.


Updated to #44. I will be updating regularly through the day since the overwhelming majority of people have mountain yeti to join.

Just found out you have to join the yahoo group in order to submit times now. What happened to the comfortable way of submitting via e-mail? I actually sent two mails to mariokart8@yahoogroups.com recently, but I did not get any error message, so I thought this would work.

Ok, now I tried to register on the yahoo page, but it asked me for a mobile number which I of course will not just type into some form on the internet, even if it's yahoo. So I tried to log in via google, but of course it still asks me to create a yahoo account then. Well, then let's try with a fake phone number - but now my ID seems to be blocked by the cancelled registration process I have done before. This is really getting on my nerves now I can tell you


EDIT: Got it to work now, so nvm...

I forgot to mention something in my first post.

You may only put one record per line. Putting multiple records on the same line will fuck up the parser. This is mainly for you Marv

Mick wrote on 06/09/14 at 10:20:00:


I didn't put everything in one line, it just appeared like that when I submitted it. It's probably because I'm using the Wii U since my computer is broken.

Is it really just 1 or 2 courses? I thought every course which involves offroad parts is concerned. Maybe not now, but when the course will be maxed out with normal controls, people will switch to wheel.

Do submissions show up in the Yahoo group right away, or do they need to be approved first? I tried sending a time with my email, but it hasn't shown up yet and I don't want to sign in on my Yahoo account because it asks for my phone number.

MH wrote on 06/09/14 at 12:57:10:


I have yet to see for myself anything that prooves Wii wheel superior on that track. My tests seem to indicate the opposite!

Does it happen in Chrome?

AlexPenev wrote on 06/10/14 at 20:53:38:

Yeah I used Chrome.

Anyway, I eventually managed to retrieve all the messages from yesterday. What I'm gonna is update all the times set yesterday going by GMT timezone, and then let update the rest by the volunteer times updaters later tonight, if they are there. This way we'll have an accurate AF #1 going into the next day, and the newcomers will have enough material to test the system. I will make an exception for Marv's rMMM since it's a WR and it was posted on the board before midnight GMT.

As you can see, we're slowly transitioning the work to the new times updaters, so there may be some hiccups as they are testing things. I'll still be around to check out things and update what hasn't been done yet.