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fracture
Jan 20, 2007, 7:58 AM
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8a is a pretty crappy site. It renders crappy, and the unnecessary forums stuff is also really annoying (and messes up keyboard-based browsing in firefox in a lot of situations). And it is completely unusable in all text-based browsers. Not to mention the UI design.
So,
In reply to: On one hand, it is an awesome program.
No.
As far as the ranking? I think it's pretty dumb. As a scoring system, it's pretty horribly designed: they give far too many points for onsights, and have hilarious bonus points for things like first ascents (?) and trad gear (??). And unbelievably, they seem to think it makes sense for bouldering and sport climbing to be scored seperately. (Not to mention their silly little rules about eliminates, freepoints, downclimbs, and cheater stones.) Perhaps worst of all, you are supposed to be able to register repeated ascents to "bump" the route back to the front of your 12-month queue, but of course half of the people on the board want to have the thing say the date that they first did it, so they never bump them. Others tend to wire things and do them frequently, in which case keeping track of all your repeats is just a pain in the ass and not fun. Basically, outside of the top 10 or so, the ranking is completely meaningless because people aren't even playing by the same rules.
But, aside from the bad designs of the competition aspect of it (which is silly to get worked up over---I've seen far worse designed scoring systems for climbing competitions), it is very nifty for tracking your (or other people's) progress.
(This post was edited by fracture on Jan 20, 2007, 10:44 AM)
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