I firmly support the idea.
However... aand correct me if I'm mistaken, pls... I don't quite see, how changing the DB's and thereabouts would somehow significantly improve matters...?
I mean it surely would be nice to be able to manage your game stats online... like for instance... to be able to call similar stats on q3df.org like you can ingame, like player stats, aliases and suchlike... or even one's timehistory on a map ... or even the more intricate stuff like the ability to DEL one's time on some map, if one so chose... or even having the servers' ingame chat somehow available online in irc style or something... All those could surely be possible with modding the server client, sure...
... but isn't the trouble of this game... more app-wise?
Like for instance ... after about dozen years of predominantly russian players' activity.. to finally give them the ability of saying "дерьмовый" out loud?
and that's only the start... there's for instance the adoption of say "+respawn" instead of "+kill" ... w8... "+attack" ...
or .. in fact having the engine Inclined to speedrunnin.. which may involve advanced timer management, adding personal timers to a map which hasn't got any...
... or even brand new mods like the GPL's golf, or my ideas of ... say contdown timers or countdown jumpcounter ... or any of the number of ideas one can develop, if one sees the game as a predominantly speed/time game rather than a d/m platform...?
and THIS ... is neither <hk> nor the <df.org> ... struggle... or is it?