Suggested Merges

[BrandonCookeDev]

The Players list can get pretty big at times; so big that needed merges could be missed.
It would be nice if the software was able to intelligently suggest merges based on names of players in the list, or additional criteria.

[BrandonCookeDev]

So after thinking it over, I think the best strategy here is to incrementally introduce and improve this feature.

The premise of the idea is that admins typically don't see duplicate players on the big list of players in their region. To mitigate, the software can "Suggest" a merge based on similar naming conventions. For example
"Avocado ?= av0cado ?= av0ca d0"

Having something popup to query a user if "X may be same as Y?" could really help here.
This should be possible via regular expression.
https://regex101.com/ is pretty top tier for creating and testing regular expressions. I imagine this may actually be more difficult than theorized. We can try to figure it out as we go.

[BrandonCookeDev]

it can however, start off being just matching tags that are exactly the same. This can be done in the following fashion with javascript:

for(var i in playerlist){
    var player = playerlist[i];
    var regex = new RegExp(/player.name/i); //i at the end means "Case Insensitive"

    for(var j in playerlist){
        if(i == j) continue; //don't compare the same player

        var comparedPlayer = playerlist[j];
        if(regex.test(comparedPlayer.name)){ //returns true on match
            //do something for the user. 
        }
    }
}

Maybe there can be an additional dropdown console that displays all matches and gives the admin the options of merging those from the console.

There's also probably a more efficient way to run this algorithm, it's just the first thing I thought of. If we go with this nested loop, we should try to only run it when we have identified the user is an admin for the sake of efficiency.