Online-go.com: Ability to see how many vacation days are to be accrued

[arnaudgo]

Summary

Displaying how many days are left to be accrued/acquired.
It's just a substraction, it should be a quick-win. And besides the supporter page, I don't know an OGS page that gives us the maximum allowed.
So, if I've never been interested in visiting the supporter page, I can't know, whatever if I'm a supporter or not.
As a subsidiary point, it would be kind to display the rhythm of acquisition

Environment

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Arnaud

[beejunk]

I'd be interested in tackling this issue, assuming it's not being worked on already. I'd like to start helping with this project, and it seems like a good way to familiarize myself with the code.

I'm not entirely clear on what is being requested, though. Here's a quick first attempt (I'm assuming this info would go on the user profile page):

Is this the kind of thing you're looking for? Or are you literally looking for something like:

Vacation Days Left to Accrue: 5

This second variation seems a little awkward to me.

Also, how quickly do vacation days accrue? Is there a reference for that type of thing?

[arnaudgo]

Hello @beejunk :)

It's nice you want to contribute to OGS, I haven't thought of the means, only of the information I would like to see.

Answering your last question, you can check this page:

https://online-go.com/user/supporter

But, I don't know what form would be the most appropriate. I guess if you want to have fun, you could draw 2 gauges, one bar for the vacation days left to accrue and another one for the days left before acquiring a new day. If you do so, I believe you can't escape the display of some nice sentence to give a clear meaning of the representation. And once you know it, I think, it's easier and quicker to refer to those graphs.
Anyway, it's just if you want to have fun, the feature is not very essential I guess, not essential enough for sending time beautifying it.

Arnaud

[beejunk]

Thanks for the feedback, @arnaudgo. I'm personally inclined to stick with text, although I'll try a variation or two with a graph and see if I can come up with something that is useful. I'd be curious if @anoek has any thoughts on the matter.
I see that the supporters page does indicate the rate at which vacation time is accrued, although I'd still need to figure out where the user is in that cycle in order to make a useful indicator (for example, if the user is on day 5 of the 8 day period). I'll look through the API docs and the code to see if that kind of data is readily available.

[BHydden]

Since vacation time is no longer displayed on the supporter page (and thus, to my knowledge, is no longer displayed _anywhere_) I think I'll take a stab at implementing this in the near future.

[anoek]

@BHydden sure, it's 30 days for non supporters, 60 days for supporters. Current vacation time information is on the settings page.

[BHydden]

Awesome, thanks for the tip!
I figure opponents might want to look this up for any player so it needs to be on the profile page. The only place that makes sense to me is on the right-hand side above ladders. Sound alright to you?

[anoek]

Sure I think that's a fine place

[BHydden]

Sweet I'll get onto it shortly :)

[anoek]

Hmmm, this only works on your own profile. Which is actually probably a fine thing, but then it should be moved to the settings page in the vacation box.

[BHydden]

What? No, I tested it... it displays the details for whoever's page you're looking at...

...at least it did on my end, does it not on yours???

[BHydden]

I loaded 6 different profile pages and they all got 6 different values in that section that seem to match what I would expect... are you seeing your (identical) values on everyone's page?

Screenshots and matching player IDs for the 6 test cases mentioned above

Player 913 BHydden  Player 968 testvac  Player 1 anoek  Player 794 flovo  Player 950 BHtester  Player 168 Eugene 

[GreenAsJade]

Works for me.