Metaculus / Metaculus/metaculus

Make it clearer how the global leaderboards work

Open
#4,037 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Low Priority Stale
Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
113
Forks
34
Avg merge
16h 34m
Merged PRs (30d)
30

Description

See this conversation. The default assumption I think is that all smaller leaderboards are included under the longer leaderboards. A little additional copy should fix this

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with the linked Slack conversation, then locate the global leaderboard interface in the TypeScript application. Clarify in the UI copy whether smaller leaderboards are included in longer leaderboards, and consider the issue complete when that relationship is unambiguous to users.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
content, frontend
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
58/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.