Custom leaderboard or multi-user filtered results

[davidgustav]

My friends and I would love a way to see a leaderboard with only us on it in addition to the main board. That way we don't have to search for each one of us each time and can easily see how we did compared to each other.

Ideally we'd be able to specify the usernames to pull into that view and could modify the list as more friends start playing.

Some thoughts I had in case someone else can think about it before I can attempt a PR.

• when searching on board, add a way to select one of the names that is returned and add it to a list
• store list of users in a similar way to how usernamesUsed works
• add a class similar to my-name to every name in the list (something like my-friends)
• add a toggle to only display entries with that new class on the leaderboard

[hryanjones]

One workaround, assuming your friends aren't super tied to their usernames and associated scores would be to have a common acronym that's in everybody's name. There's a group from Ravelry LSG that does this:

https://hryanjones.com/guess-my-word/board.html?search=LSG

[davidgustav]

Sometimes it's the easiest solutions... Yeah that makes total sense. I'm not sure we're humble enough to start over. Will think about it some more. I've got a workaround w/ a hardcoded user list, but that's just sitting in a local file that I can hit and screenshot for them. Nothing worthy of sharing at this point.

[hryanjones]

Also, it wouldn't be too hard to add another URL param that's like "userFilter=someone,another person" that would filter down the list (assuming a username doesn't have a "," in it). It'd be pretty easy to implement even without any extra UI portions and I'd be likely to approve that PR pretty quick :)