Whoa. We used both ‘sparkline’ and ‘tagcloud’ in the same sentence. Not bad going so early in the day.
What are we on about?
Some time ago we added an activity log to the app - a hidden feature that allows us to see who does what where. We’re working on ‘opening’ this feature up to everyone, and the first two stabs at this are in the form of the activity sparkline and the activity tagcloud.
Anything but a flatline
The activity sparkline measures your activity on a site-by-site basis over a two week period. Each time you do something on your site we remember it, and we add a notch to the relevant day.
We believe if you are active your site will better off for it. A healthy sparkline means a healthy site. A flatline means someone needs to do some work, quick.
Everyone’s in the cloud now
We mine this activity data elsewhere too: on our own site. We look at the most recent activity across all our sites, we throw all the data together and render it as a tagcloud.
The bigger the tag the more active the site, the smaller the less. Each tag links through to the relevant site - an interesting way to showcase what’s happening elsewhere in the tank universe. A nice way to get linked up too.
We hope to see you in the cloud.
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