Charts Now Updating Every 15 mins
We've just done a complete overhaul of the machinery behind the Viral Video Chart. We're now updating all chart data every 15 minutes so you'll see things zooming up and down the top 20 during the day. This means we'll catch breaking videos much faster. Previously we were publishing static data that was frozen at midnight and we didn't update stuff til the following midnight - way too slow!!!
We've also done some major improvements that'll speed up chart generation, allowing us to publish lots more charts for interesting types of video content. More soon.
One unforeseen consequence is that we've fucked up our ability to show movement up / down compared to the previous day. That's why all the arrows have disappeared. Oops. We'll add this info back soon. We could have waited and corrected this before deploying the latest improvements, but we don't like doing that. We get itchy if we don't deploy new code every day and don't like lots of stuff building up in the pipeline.
that is fantastic. also, the widget looks great on blogspot.
Posted by: narnia | March 10, 2007 at 01:22 AM