I'm sticking Elo, Glicko, Glicko-2 in as rank options but the ranking system I've been using all along, Schoolyard ranking, 2 points exchanged on game over if ranks aren't already allotted according to the game's result - can do reversible time-outs, where those can't. So every six hours (a setting) online player's control loop checks for timed-out games over 10 days old (also a setting), timing those games out with an auto-forced-timed-out-win-loss event that affects the ranks but reversibly - that's been great - it keeps one from being able to sit on losing games to amass wins to climb rank artificially. The mainstream ranking methodologies don't have this ability . . . . I'm not saying it works like this as published, just yet - I'm saying that - it's just about to - stand by . . .
Before there was SBR - there was facebook_reversi, thanks to it's creator, Jason Hanley!
In a big way, Jason's work was a huge reason this app exists at all!
The idea was to get as many games going as you can, with really skilled Reversi players, and it was really fun, and definitely really educational, when you got a bunch going. This inspired me to create SBR! The spirit of that lives on, here, today!
I have buckled down pretty hard and finally fixed every single thing that was broken, except the Facebook login interface which has been replaced by the Google login interface. I also made sure the ranks were split, that was almost done, it turned out, but needed finishing, and I finished that Friday! I migrated the hosting account to a much cheaper server last week, which was over a month long project by itself, but that got done, I got each bug crossed off the bug list for once and tonight added challenge invites so when you invite your friends it comes with an automatic challenge.
I found all the error logs today and went through them, fixed a bunch of stuff, and it seems to load up quick again. I also fixed the profile images on the back pages and fixed up the invite button. I'm strongly considering adding ranking resolution next, as described below:
The Facebook login for this discuss site and the main site aren't working anymore, so email me at Info at Santa Cruz Web Factory dot com (Arlon Arriola) to get an account here, that doesn't use the Facebook login. I'm sure there's a way to get Google login for this too, but for now just email me.
I know it's been down for forever, the Facebook API is giving me a hard time - but I've been putting some time into it lately, now that I've got some more time after finishing school, to get it back up again, whatever it takes, so I have high hopes. I'll post of course and let everyone know if and when I get it going again. Thank you everyone for all your awesome games and patience. -Arlon
I just noticed this morning the lower 'Discuss' link loads the page without https which breaks it (this discussion page) - I don't have time to fix the link at the moment - I will this weekend - to use this page just load it with https or use the green Discuss link at the top of the SBR page.
