Hey all,
We are happy enough with the progress we are making although at times its like treading water as some of the projects we are working on are tediously repetitive and extremely frustrating. Many of them its simply a case of running one thing and then not being able to do the next stage until a huge block of queries completes. Of course you then move on to something else only to find its an eye-popping screen starer requiring the patience of a saint!
With all that said, my aim to have a lot done for Cheltenham is looking realistically possible and an upgrade on the System Builder plus several other key elements of improvement will go ahead just as soon as they are ready. As always my thanks to all members who are getting in touch with suggestions etc and also to everyone for continuing to support with donations.
The list of improvements we have pending continues to grow, but this is a good thing and means the site will continue to expand and offer more to all of you as each month passes.
There are a couple of categories which we will be (hopefully) adding in soon and its worth pointing out the likes of track characteristics (undulating etc) are at times disputed depending on which source you look at. In the end we will obviously make the final judgement call on this. In a similar vein, the race type addition for amateur, conditional jockeys etc is one that has caused numerous headaches and again we have spent many hours trying to get everything spot on.
I am not sure yet if we will remove some of the System Builder categories that are never used. In some ways its good to have them there, but if our testing shows they are slowing things down then I dont believe much will be lost in ditching them. For example the 4th last race age restrictions is one I dont believe would be used hardly ever and very doubtful anyone has it in a saved system, but we will need to check all these things out thoroughly.
With regards to Cheltenham it is our hope to introduce a few features, some just fun things, others with really good areas for study. Obviously a whole new audience appears for the festival and it would be really welcomed should we manage to get a few new members on board over this time. But mainly, we realise its a time when all existing members are on the site trying out new things/studying angles etc and we would like to assist as much as we can.
I always say I will post a blog more regularly and yet somehow get so dragged in to the ongoing project areas, before I know it 2 or 3 weeks have passed. With all that said, Im yet again saying the same thing and it is my intention to blog more regularly!
Keep all the feedback, comments and suggestions coming. Thanks. We are getting there!
Cheers
Chris
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