Ranting about the site going in the wrong direction

[Phoxtrot]

Besides that, my biggest problem with the site is that some aspects are clearly very amateurish. Take for example the arena positions. The ordinal numbers have been entered incorrectly (e.g. 21th instead of 21st). Why has this never been fixed? I can't imagine it would be difficult to do.

Do you know how many languages are used on BGA ?
What if, in another language, it is not 21 but 20 or 25 that requires a different postfix or prefix for the ordinal than the others ?

There are inevitably grammatical issues, even for French and English which are the most important languages of the site.
And sometimes you have to make do because yeah, you don't want to manually encode all the ordinals up to 1000 or more nor design rules that requires actual php/js/...coding for each language.

[teallite]

Hm... I see correct ordinals in Arena and all-time rankings.

[ErikLevin]

Besides that, my biggest problem with the site is that some aspects are clearly very amateurish. Take for example the arena positions. The ordinal numbers have been entered incorrectly (e.g. 21th instead of 21st). Why has this never been fixed? I can't imagine it would be difficult to do.

Do you know how many languages are used on BGA ?
What if, in another language, it is not 21 but 20 or 25 that requires a different postfix or prefix for the ordinal than the others ?

There are inevitably grammatical issues, even for French and English which are the most important languages of the site.
And sometimes you have to make do because yeah, you don't want to manually encode all the ordinals up to 1000 or more nor design rules that requires actual php/js/...coding for each language.

It can be solved, for all languages, with literally three or less lines of code. https://stackoverflow.com/a/4392684

[DoctorFianchetto]

Besides that, my biggest problem with the site is that some aspects are clearly very amateurish. Take for example the arena positions. The ordinal numbers have been entered incorrectly (e.g. 21th instead of 21st). Why has this never been fixed? I can't imagine it would be difficult to do.

Do you know how many languages are used on BGA ?
What if, in another language, it is not 21 but 20 or 25 that requires a different postfix or prefix for the ordinal than the others ?

There are inevitably grammatical issues, even for French and English which are the most important languages of the site.
And sometimes you have to make do because yeah, you don't want to manually encode all the ordinals up to 1000 or more nor design rules that requires actual php/js/...coding for each language.

This is a basic programming problem. There are better ways than manually typing out all the ordinal numbers up to X. It's such a common issue that there will be a built-in function to display it correctly.

[maveleo]

Besides that, my biggest problem with the site is that some aspects are clearly very amateurish. Take for example the arena positions. The ordinal numbers have been entered incorrectly (e.g. 21th instead of 21st). Why has this never been fixed? I can't imagine it would be difficult to do.

Do you know how many languages are used on BGA ?
What if, in another language, it is not 21 but 20 or 25 that requires a different postfix or prefix for the ordinal than the others ?

There are inevitably grammatical issues, even for French and English which are the most important languages of the site.
And sometimes you have to make do because yeah, you don't want to manually encode all the ordinals up to 1000 or more nor design rules that requires actual php/js/...coding for each language.

It can be solved, for all languages, with literally three or less lines of code. https://stackoverflow.com/a/4392684

You are really asking too much here LOL

[SquashEngineer]

Besides that, my biggest problem with the site is that some aspects are clearly very amateurish. Take for example the arena positions. The ordinal numbers have been entered incorrectly (e.g. 21th instead of 21st). Why has this never been fixed? I can't imagine it would be difficult to do.

Do you know how many languages are used on BGA ?
What if, in another language, it is not 21 but 20 or 25 that requires a different postfix or prefix for the ordinal than the others ?

There are inevitably grammatical issues, even for French and English which are the most important languages of the site.
And sometimes you have to make do because yeah, you don't want to manually encode all the ordinals up to 1000 or more nor design rules that requires actual php/js/...coding for each language.

This is a basic programming problem. There are better ways than manually typing out all the ordinal numbers up to X. It's such a common issue that there will be a built-in function to display it correctly.

I agree, I would have thought there was an available plugin that handles this scenario for all languages by now. Also, if French and English are the largest user bases, at least get them corrected first, then deal with the other 65+ languages after. Poorly implemented translation is a pet peeve for me though in general.

[teallite]

So, you all really see incorrect ordinals in English while I see correct ones?

[Bray]

So, you all really see incorrect ordinals in English while I see correct ones?

They look correct to me.

[nik592]

I think they are correct in some places - I believe where I've seen it wrong is on the banner that appears when you finish a game in Elite League and your EAS points adjust (and your ranking along with it). But that's kind of a hard place to go to on command.

[DoctorFianchetto]

I think they are correct in some places - I believe where I've seen it wrong is on the banner that appears when you finish a game in Elite League and your EAS points adjust (and your ranking along with it). But that's kind of a hard place to go to on command.

Yes I am talking specifically about when you win a game in Arena Elite league and you go up to Xth place. Those are incorrect. To be fair, they are correct everywhere else they occur (I never thought about this consciously until now), so this isn't a huge problem.