I was thinking it would be cool if we advertised the addition of new ladders (including temporary ones) to PS. Yes, it's true that any community pushing for a ladder's addition will inevitably talk amongst themselves to get each other to play it, but this misses out on a lot of more casual (and dare I say ignorant) playerbase that won't notice these things without explicit encouragement.
Some ways this could happen:
- A [NEW] tag (with color...? idk, this was Irpachuza's take on it) in the format selector dropdown
- My suggestion would be some kind of bulletin on the homepage that's synced with the addition of new ladders, maybe? Kind of like News, except to decrease workload for admins over time, maybe it's somehow synced to whenever the line(s) of code that "activate" a ladder are hotpatched into the server? And then the bulletin would be like "NEW LADDER ADDED IN OTHER METAGAMES: [Gen 35] Your Mom" or something. Or, pick some people to maintain a "new ladder advertisements" thread and whitelist them to update the bulletin on PS, surely you'd get volunteers (I'd be one of them). Plus, it's not like we add new ladders every day, so this probably wouldn't be awfully active.
I should point out that this is primarily intended to support stuff like when we got LGPE ladder, or BDSP ladder, Pet Mod of the Season, OMOTM/LCOTM, Randbats Spotlight, that [Gen 3] LC ladder that just got added but is unfortunately hidden away in the UM dropdown, etc. Obviously, we don't need a mini-announcement for gen crossover (although, it wouldn't hurt to add sometihng like "All ladders have been updated to the current generation: Apples and Oranges (or whatever they call the next game)!"
Anyway, maybe Someone That Knows How To Code can think of a better way to implement this than my theorycrafting, but I think anything that helps out our less front-facing ladders (not every ladder is randbats or OU, after all) is worth pursuing.
Some ways this could happen:
- A [NEW] tag (with color...? idk, this was Irpachuza's take on it) in the format selector dropdown
- My suggestion would be some kind of bulletin on the homepage that's synced with the addition of new ladders, maybe? Kind of like News, except to decrease workload for admins over time, maybe it's somehow synced to whenever the line(s) of code that "activate" a ladder are hotpatched into the server? And then the bulletin would be like "NEW LADDER ADDED IN OTHER METAGAMES: [Gen 35] Your Mom" or something. Or, pick some people to maintain a "new ladder advertisements" thread and whitelist them to update the bulletin on PS, surely you'd get volunteers (I'd be one of them). Plus, it's not like we add new ladders every day, so this probably wouldn't be awfully active.
I should point out that this is primarily intended to support stuff like when we got LGPE ladder, or BDSP ladder, Pet Mod of the Season, OMOTM/LCOTM, Randbats Spotlight, that [Gen 3] LC ladder that just got added but is unfortunately hidden away in the UM dropdown, etc. Obviously, we don't need a mini-announcement for gen crossover (although, it wouldn't hurt to add sometihng like "All ladders have been updated to the current generation: Apples and Oranges (or whatever they call the next game)!"
Anyway, maybe Someone That Knows How To Code can think of a better way to implement this than my theorycrafting, but I think anything that helps out our less front-facing ladders (not every ladder is randbats or OU, after all) is worth pursuing.