I’ve been thinking about this for a while: the CS stats and news site (HLTV) is much better than VLR. They update players’ photos much faster and have a global ranking that includes teams from all over the world. I might be ignorant here, but at least the player photo updates could be improved. For example, aspas still has the photo from when he played for LOUD. It shouldn’t be that hard to change it on the site. Besides that, they could add clips of the best plays from a match on the game’s page for any tournament. Also, the general player rating should be shown instead of separating it by agents, and they could include the cumulative season stats on players’ profiles. I understand that creating a global ranking might be a lot of work, but the other suggestions don’t seem that hard to implement and would greatly enhance the site, making it more complete and enjoyable to use.
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I think this site just has a really small dev team
idk how much revenue (if any) this site makes so it's a matter of finding a way to monetize vlr to hire more devs
first thing they should do imo is get volunteer mods to make sure the rules are actually being followed, people don't take vlr seriously because of some of the outrageous stuff that gets posted here (I guess HLTV doesn't have this issue since they say some wild stuff there, but the val player base is much less tolerant to this kinda stuff)
They put betting ads on every match, so the site must be making some money from it. The idea of having volunteer moderators would be great; the problem would be where to announce that there are open positions. I, for example, would easily apply to help the site. Regarding the comments, I don’t think there’s much to do about what people post. I just don’t understand why people dismiss the site because of that, considering it has great potential.
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