More new features on the beta site!

Hello Heroic friends! It's been a while since I pinged, and I've added quite a few new things to the beta site in the meantime. I wanted to point out some things that you guys might not have noticed yet and get your thoughts.

1) I'm now parsing the whole Destiny userbase. As of right now, this only manifests in the form of Weapon Grades & Community Average Roll on weapons, but eventually I will be able to use this to have "global" community rarities on Items/Triumphs, as well as Leaderboards (if I decide I want to - still unsure on that). I've wanted to do this sort of scraping of the API for a long time, and luckily the site is now well supported enough (both in the form of you wonderful people as Patrons and normal users that see ads) that it's financially reasonable for me to spin up the servers to do it as well as I would like.

2) The first thing I built with this is the concept of the "Community Average Roll" for each weapon. Essentially, I'm keeping a record of every weapon I see for every player I see. From there, I'm tracking what perks that person had equipped and coming up with which perks are the most popular on each weapon in each column. These stats are displayed on each weapon's item page under "Community Average Roll". There's a Learn More link there that describes some gotchas with how I'm parsing it and how the percentages are calculated, if you're curious

3) Using the Community Average Roll, I'm able to come up with the concept of a Weapon Grade. This grade is essentially an average of the popularity of the perks you have selected on any given weapon roll. The grades show up on Your Rolls on item pages and also on the My Rolls page that you guys got a preview of a few weeks ago ( https://beta.light.gg/god-roll/my-rolls/ ).

4) The My Rolls page now has the ability to "inspect" a single roll by clicking on it. I'm about halfway done with this part of the page, but the idea is to eventually make it so you can fiddle with the perks you have selected in-browser and see the ramifications of switching between perks in the tool without having to be in game, both in terms of the stats on the gun and the Weapon Grade. I've already got a button there that will let you select the most popular perks for your rolls, just need to add in the stat calculating and display.

5) The images I've been linking in here are my idea of making individual rolls more "sharable" with your friends. The idea is that using the My Rolls or Your Rolls tool, you'll be able to create a unique, relatively short permalink to any of your rolls to share with your friends and let them see what you've got without having to fiddle with screenshots or anything like that. The images like the ones above are generated completely on the fly and will automatically render in places like Discord and Twitter similar to how if you link to an item page right now it'll include the weapon's in-game preview screenshot.

I've got some more stuff I'd like to do between now and Beyond Light, but this is already shaping up to be one of the largest updates I've done in a really long time. Excited to hear what you guys think so far, or if you've got any ideas of additional things I can try to work on between now and then.

Thanks as always for the support <3 

(Join the Discord server & link your Discord account with your Patreon account if you haven't! It's the best way to stay up to date on stuff that hasn't been released yet!)