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Designer News (♥) Statistics(dashinsky.com)

9 years ago from Artiom Dashinsky, Product Designer, Author & Maker

  • Tierney CyrenTierney Cyren, 9 years ago

    Some things:

    • Does upvotes count comments?

    • Would the API give you better/easier support for these statistics?

    • Does this update automatically?

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    • Artiom DashinskyArtiom Dashinsky, 9 years ago
      1. Nope, upvotes are upvotes and comments are comments :)
      2. Nope, the API doesn't provide enough information, so I had to collect it with scraper.
      3. It's not updated automatically but it's totally possible with more time and effort.
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      • Tierney CyrenTierney Cyren, 9 years ago

        1: Sorry, I worded this completely wrong. I meant to ask if upvotes on comments counted toward upvotes, as opposed to the upvotes statistic only counting upvotes on top-level threads.

        2: Posting in the Feature Request thread asking for the things you need added would be a good idea. We all want the API to be able to provide the information we all need--you've provided an excellent case for more data on the API (endpoints?).

        3: Cool. What language did you write it in?

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      • Catalin CimpanuCatalin Cimpanu, 9 years ago

        Just curious... how often will this be updated? Weekly? Monthly?

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        • Artiom DashinskyArtiom Dashinsky, 9 years ago

          The DN API doesn't provide this data so I gather it semi-automatically and it's a lot of work. But I get really good feedback about it, so I think I'll update it once in a couple of month (I believe I'll post it here if there'll be an update).

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      • Jeff EscalanteJeff Escalante, 9 years ago

        I feel like this should probably be a clear sign to those working on DN that a good API is in order!

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