theCrag/website — Issue #443: don't allow multiple FFAs
Author: scd
Created: 2011-12-28 07:38:04+00:00
State: open

Lee's Facebook comment ...

We're back to that same issue I logged on Nov 23. Two sets of FFA fields? Why? There can be only one first free ascent of a route.

My comment ...

I don't think we are back from this issue - we have never left it. Back in Nov 23 there were a whole lot of technical issues logged all at once, which I think we got to the bottom of.
Are you commenting on the logic of allowing two first free ascents. In which case I would answer I cannot think of any valid reason why we allow multiple first free ascents. However there are reasons why we need to allow multiple first ascents, otherwise we would not be able to merge with external databases such as ACA. For example:
http://www.thecrag.com/route/13015939
It's the same code which deals with FA and FFA. At this stage I'm not so keen to spend time doing special coding, which in fact limits functionality on the site. Before I do special FFA coding I want to be absolutely sure that there is no valid reason for having multiple FFAs, otherwise we may find ourselves not being able to merge data from an external site.