About a half year ago derbyposition started with some pretty common wordings like 'Bout', 'Merby', 'Roller Girl', ... Fortunately we got a lot of feedback during the last months especially that those wordings aren't as common as we thought. So we learned that a roller derby game is no bout anymore it's just a game, the term 'merby' seems to be derogatory in the US and a woman won't identify herself with beeing a (roller-) 'girl'.
Today we dropped those terms among some other updates and changes which are listed below.
Update News - April 2015
(aka: an overview of what happened the last months)
- Wordings
- Replaced 'roller girl' by 'skater'
- Replaced 'merby' by 'skater'
- Replaced 'bout' by 'game'
- Replaced 'ref' by 'skating official'
- Replaced 'nso' by 'non skating official'
- German Roller Derby Bundesliga
- German league members can register for the Bundesliga via derbyposition
- League-Admins are able to create Bundesliga-Events
- Added a dedicated Bundesliga ranking page
- Automated Bundesliga Ranking calculation
- Implemented automated E-Mail reminders containing the current lineup before each Bundesliga game
- Built an easy to use Bundesliga-Widget for the league websites. You can have a look at it on the website of Roller Derby Dresden
- Btw, if you are planning to start a league/ranking system in your country and need some help, just tell us. We can easily adapt the existing ranking system to your needs.
- Added Junior Roller Derby as an option for teams
- Header menu adapted
- Boutscore only showing up on skater profiles
- New League WFTDA status: 'WFTDA Apprentice'
- New League orientation: 'Co-Ed League'
- The profile's favourite penalty is not mandatory anymore
- Filter on results page adapted (new wordings, new properties)
- Fixed sorting on the results page for event searches
- Added dummy images for officials on event pages
- @Doctor Frankenskate: RSS? We're really sorry about this but RSS is not on our list anymore... ...because we started a new one ;-)
And again thank you for your feedback, we really appreciate that! Please send us your suggestions to headref@derbyposition.com .
