@Cfootin stoked you like it! Thanks for pointing out the wind bug too, will get that ironed out.
It’s a really good question on your data. I’ve actually got a personal interest in this… I used a site called proskicoach (I’m sure plenty of you will remember it) probably around 2007/2008 time, when I was young, pretty new to skiing and improving at a decent rate. Those were the days!
It had a cool tool where you could record really basic data – I think it was just your single best score and notes on the set. Anyway, I used it for two or three years and long story short, ended up losing all the data when that site ceased to be. That was a bummer!
So it’s really important to me that Swervetracker is sustainable.
Data is safe in the cloud, not on any hardware of my own that could be damaged/lost etc. I’m also based in the UK, and European General Data Protection Regulations (AKA GDPR) are unbelievably strict on how data is kept too – rightly so.
In terms of Swervetracker itself, the running costs are pretty low but at some point (depending where users top out), I’ll probably have to find a way for it to wash its face. My preference in that scenario would be to keep it free with some sort of really simple sponsorship. If that doesn’t fly then maybe some sort of small subscription would be needed. As I said earlier, no more than a couple sets worth of gas per year.
It's a pet project, so I'd love if Swervetracker could add value for everyone else in the sport for years to come.
...and if we do lose your data, it's a small community, so you probably know someone that knows someone that knows where to find me! :D
Owen