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This is a great site, honestly the only thing to push it to the next level is to just polish up the styling. Aside from that it loads instantly and never had an

This is a great site, honestly the only thing to push it to the next level is to just polish up the styling. Aside from that it loads instantly and never had an issue clicking around. Great work!

scoofy 2y ago
Thanks! Like I said, yes, the style could easily be improved, but it's really difficult to spend time on that when I'm working so hard on the backend. It's a low priority, even if it's a bad first impression for some people. For example, the most recent update completely changed the way the index page loads, as I reverted it from Leaflet -> Maplibre so that I could use OpenFreeMap, saving $20+ per month in hosting costs, and allowing for vector maps to be used: https://openfreemap.org/ https://openfreemap.org/ Thanks hyperknot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41635592 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41635592 In that same update, I was able to add the "most recent week/month/year" for new and updated courses. After that update, I was overloading my flexible server instance with too much memory (oh, those for-loops and large lists). So, I then rewrote a significant section of the caching system! The important thing is the "recent updates" lets people know the site is active. I got more than a few emails about whether it was a dead site in the last year (followed by random middle-man advertising pitches). The reason why I think the styling is a low priority is that the site is targeted (for content creation) at older, non-computer literate folks at small clubs that would like to share their knowledge for posterity. It's also targeted at Wikipedians who justifiably know that this kind of detail about golf is inappropriate for Wikipedia, but still love golf. I'm not sure either demo cares too much about a site being super pretty. The information ideally is targeted at golf nerds, but mainly junior golfers, looking for available information about relatively unknown course that they will be playing on in tournaments (hence the printable course guides).

This is a great site, honestly the only thing to push it to the next level is to just polish up the styling. Aside from that it loads instantly and never had an issue clicking around. Great work!

scoofy 2y ago

Thanks! Like I said, yes, the style could easily be improved, but it's really difficult to spend time on that when I'm working so hard on the backend. It's a low priority, even if it's a bad first impression for some people. For example, the most recent update completely changed the way the index page loads, as I reverted it from Leaflet -> Maplibre so that I could use OpenFreeMap, saving $20+ per month in hosting costs, and allowing for vector maps to be used: https://openfreemap.org/ https://openfreemap.org/ Thanks hyperknot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41635592 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41635592 In that same update, I was able to add the "most recent week/month/year" for new and updated courses. After that update, I was overloading my flexible server instance with too much memory (oh, those for-loops and large lists). So, I then rewrote a significant section of the caching system! The important thing is the "recent updates" lets people know the site is active. I got more than a few emails about whether it was a dead site in the last year (followed by random middle-man advertising pitches). The reason why I think the styling is a low priority is that the site is targeted (for content creation) at older, non-computer literate folks at small clubs that would like to share their knowledge for posterity. It's also targeted at Wikipedians who justifiably know that this kind of detail about golf is inappropriate for Wikipedia, but still love golf. I'm not sure either demo cares too much about a site being super pretty. The information ideally is targeted at golf nerds, but mainly junior golfers, looking for available information about relatively unknown course that they will be playing on in tournaments (hence the printable course guides).