Originally Posted by Mindless

I think you're vastly underestimating the complexity of building something like this. Especially with consideration to the fact that everything is built as a hack to work off of the forum system. There's a LOT of fuckery happening in the backend. I will say that starting from scratch probably WOULD be easier than going in and fucking around with someone else's code. Especially since I'm willing to bet the code for this site is spaghetti as fuck after all the shit it's been through as far as development goes.

I'm talking about the main part of the site being the battle system. Im not entirely sure if the player is hand coded or if it's a plugin so I'll amend and remove anything to do with audio.

But as for the battle system itself? Very easy. There's quite a lot of little bits to it for sure, but it's a lot of small little easy sections which add up pretty effortlessly. There was some solid innovation in the design to begin with but we're well beyond the time where it deserves credit.

The hacks are mostly just downloads. How many of LBs vbulli hacks are handwritten and specific to only this site?

It's not a complex idea. Because it offers no integration with apps or external sources, nothing is hard. To actually bring LB forward I wouldn't be anywhere near the level required, because just making the relevant aspects responsive yet consistent with the desktop site, I can't break that up logically right now. But where Lb currently sits? Not hard.

Originally Posted by Mindless

I think you're vastly underestimating the complexity of building something like this. Especially with consideration to the fact that everything is built as a hack to work off of the forum system. There's a LOT of fuckery happening in the backend. I will say that starting from scratch probably WOULD be easier than going in and fucking around with someone else's code. Especially since I'm willing to bet the code for this site is spaghetti as fuck after all the shit it's been through as far as development goes.

I'm talking about the main part of the site being the battle system. Im not entirely sure if the player is hand coded or if it's a plugin so I'll amend and remove anything to do with audio.

But as for the battle system itself? Very easy. There's quite a lot of little bits to it for sure, but it's a lot of small little easy sections which add up pretty effortlessly. There was some solid innovation in the design to begin with but we're well beyond the time where it deserves credit.

The hacks are mostly just downloads. How many of LBs vbulli hacks are handwritten and specific to only this site?

It's not a complex idea. Because it offers no integration with apps or external sources, nothing is hard. To actually bring LB forward I wouldn't be anywhere near the level required, because just making the relevant aspects responsive yet consistent with the desktop site, I can't break that up logically right now. But where Lb currently sits? Not hard.