Changelog

Our Valorant collegiate coverage continues, our team gets our coverage of the Finals esports scene started, and we continue to make progress on the development side of things.

Content Overhauls

We overhauled our File system to work directly with new admin interface, allowing our staff to more quickly and easily capture visual identity of organizations and players alike. This involved:

• Changes to internal views (For quick previews and visual matching)

• Connecting to our existing SS3 buckets securely and syncing changes to our CDN

• Building out a new internal editor to upload and link images directly to play from new editor

Additionally, we made some significant tune ups to how our internal editor handled rich text and writing content, giving our admins that classic WYSIWYG experience and making our whole content pipeline more efficient:

• We Integrated this new editor into our internal player, organization, and page building systems

• We created simple public routes to fetch dynamically written content for live previews, and to make way for more significant connections to our existing front-end.

• Minor bug fixes to ensure that toolbars displayed properly on internal views

More Fields, and More context

Where our initial system tracked external links very crudely and tediously, we finally got a chance to build a system that would let our editors track player and organization’s accounts and pages with the click of a button.

Added simple menus to let editors build hierarchical relationships between organizations, and track mergers.

What’s next?

Now that we’ve made significant progress on the backend, we’re going to be prioritizing building out the front-end ahead of the first major in Stockholm for The Finals!

Full career parity with VLR, Liquipedia, and RIB will be the next big goal for the year, and we hope that you’ll be able to gain a perspective into player’s careers on Link that you can’t find anywhere else.

Minor fixes, and feature overhauls on the backend:

• Minor Game Admin UI feature additions

• Game Linking Admin improvements to support more automation, input validation, and visual feedback.

• Optimized the admin game view, reduced excessive game data processing in list view.

• Minor bug fixes with database and admin input fields

• Improved Game Summary admin view

This is a HUGE update for LInk, and while obviously not much has changed on the front-end, the site’s backend functionality has increased significantly.

Key Patch Notes:

• Admin Panel Hooks

  • Added match validation hook to create backend_title from the tournament stage round, and match number

  • Added organization validation hook to create backend title from the organization_brand

  • Added roster validation hook to create backend title from 5 players name and the team name

    Added team validation hook to create backend title from team_brand

  • Added game_source hook to display game summary using Link game engine, applying optimizations, and pulling usernames for editor convenience.

• Private Alpha Build

  • Minor tweaks to header ahead of private testing

  • Overhauled and debugged alpha tournament page

  • Minor internal moves for alpha match and tournament pages

  • Updated match and tourney displays to link to alpha pages

• Internal System improvements

  • Implemented Revamped internal to external gamed linking

  • Re-implemented legacy features for match (improved performance with bracket engine)

  • Revamped Match/team linking

  • Overhauled organization tables

    • Added historical branding tracking on organizations

    • Implemented new linking system

  • Revamped stage and team links

  • Improved game data fetching for Valorant

  • Improved stage view on admin panel

New Admin Overhauls

• Improvements to various areas of Valorant Match Tracking:

  • Round by round stats

  • Kill, assist, and damage tracking

  • Player account linking

• Updated schema to keep database standards universally consistent

• Made Improvements to further Database Security

Changes:

• Public Overhauls

  • Swapped colors

  • Implemented Login System

• Updated and improved Database:

  • Match

  • Stages

  • Tournaments

• Implemented new Database Security Patch

• Updated Metadata

• Overhauled Admin with selectors and table components

Minor Tweaks

• Updated Postgres database to ensure security was maintained with new Admin system

• Overhauled tournaments and page editors to admin system

• Overhauled database:

  • Deprecated some of the pre-alpha systems

  • Moved to UUID system off the int ID system

• Implemented page-author system to open the door to more ways to display data

Minor Developments:

• Improved public facing pages

  • Mobile Support

  • Theme Switching

  • Fonts

  • Interest form

  • Common Icons

• Updated major frameworks

• Admin system was launched

• Minor Fixes

  • Repaired Bundling errors

  • Type corrections

Major changes to set the stage for multiple titles, cleaning up the systems behind the scene, and redesigning public facing pages.

Updated the database system:

• Multi-game support

• Overhauled page-data display system

• Improved security

• Implemented multi-schema system