Updates

The board is the front page

• Opening the site drops you straight into the live Rising Stars list instead of a welcome page.
• You pick the window changes are measured over: 30 minutes, 12 hours, or a day. The follower and view numbers use the same window. Previously the numbers and the movement were measured over different periods without saying so.
• Rank change now sits in its own column with badges.
• Rows that have not moved stay blank, so movers stand out.
• There is a slider for moving back through the archive. Pick a range first, then drag. It lands on the nearest capture and tells you which one you got.
• Table or cards, your choice. Desktop starts as a table and phones start as cards, and the toggle above the list remembers what you picked.

Navigation, and pages that load faster

• Three sections now. Now is what is happening at this moment, Browse is the archive, and Analyze is the aggregate view.
• The genre list checker moved under Now, since it reads the same live data the board does. Fictions, Hall of Fame and Cohorts are tabs under Browse. Old links still work.
• Filters, sorting and the page you were on now live in the address bar. Open a fiction, come back, and you are where you left off rather than at the top of a reset list.
• The analysis page used to do calculations on demand, now it is pre-calculated and serves 1000% faster.
• Cover images are served at the size they are actually shown, which took about four megabytes off the main list and made page loads much faster.

Watchlists, Alerts, and why there are no accounts

Mark fictions as watched and they get pinned above the board with their rank and recent movement.

There are no accounts here, and there will not be. That is deliberate, but it has consequences. Your watchlist is stored in the browser you are using. It will not show up on your phone, and clearing your browsing data clears it.

Alerts are a separate thing from watching. Watching is private and stays on your device. An alert is a message sent to your email or a Discord channel when a fiction reaches a rank you pick.

Because there is nothing to log into, the site cannot show you which alerts you already have, or whether one is still active. The manage link in your email, or the one shown once when you set up a Discord alert, is the only way back to them. Worth keeping somewhere.

We could keep that link beside your watchlist, but it would not be worth much. The watchlist only lives as long as your browser data does, so you would lose both at once.