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What are the defining features of this leaderboard model?

• fidotron 2y ago
  It's dumb, and that's a feature! One of the main things about it is you don't want to be updating the service for every new game, so you defer as many decisions as possible to the game, and be ready for it to make changes over time. The nasty part is this significantly complicates extracting the data for the leaderboards as scores are added, but you do that once and it's done. On some level it's like mongodb with a special index type. A trend I see with too many efforts is to be way too overly specific, classically things like claiming something shuffling byte buffers around needs to know about the data format. You get surprising mileage and long term velocity out of embracing the lowest levels first, and allowing them to be built on arbitrarily later.