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League 'Search' changes

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medal 5458
21 days ago (Last edited by David Parker 20 days ago)
The league search function opens as a popup, allowing you to enter text to search, e.g. 'World'. When you get the results, clicking takes you to that league and closes the tab. You can't go 'back' to the results, and you can't 'right click' to open them in a new tab or something, so the results are lost each time. When you do a seach again, because it is string-based and fairly arbitrary, the results can be quite different, so you can't simply go back to where you were.
Since the search results list doesn't really provide enough information to see if the league is good, you do need to open it to see if it's active.
(Minor rant:  even that's annoying as you can't just go by posts, the best option is to open recent races to see how many cars finished on the last lap - and then this is impossible if the league is on its season break because you can't see the previous seasons results.)

Suggestion: either clicking on a result opens it in a new browser tab or the search does not open a popup but is a switchable tab (like Race/Setup/Strategy on the race strategy setup page) and results can be right-clicked.



However, having said all of the above, a much better idea in my opinion would be a little bit of a revamp of the filters:

-remove the search popup, integrate it into the filters.
-allow the time filter to be ignored (because you may be looking for a league but not know what time it starts).
-add a sort to the results, such as 'number of elite teams', 'race time', 'alphabetical'.
-include pagination of results
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medal 5363
16 days ago
I agree wholeheartedly! Some more useful filters come to mind:

-search by specific country, not just "include foreign language leagues"
-ignore the number of races per week/days on which races take place. You might want to compromise on your requirements if you see an interesting league which does not EXACTLY fit your requirements.
I am sure there will be some more options available, if a proper "search engine" for these searches is developed. The current system is akin to searches I (as a non-programmer) used to construct with dBase2, 3, and 4 back in the 1980's
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medal 5458
10 days ago
Just a point: I think this still applies even with the changes going ahead, because 'hosted' leagues will need to be searched for.
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medal 5234
9 days ago
When searching for leagues, it would be very useful to have a filter that allows us to select preferred race distances. Many managers prefer specific formats (50%, 75%, or 100%), but currently we have to manually check each league one by one.

Adding a race length filter (e.g., 50–75% or 100%) would make league discovery much easier and help players find the type of competition they enjoy most.
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