Any loyal visitor to Popodeus may have noticed that the site occasionally changes looks, and then the suddenly disappears offline, pops up again and looks different. Well, that’s because we’ve had some server troubles and had to relocate the content quite a few times between multiple servers. And something seems to break or change on each move.
During the last couple of months I’ve been working on a new Popodeus.com site that will have a consistent layout, an easily translatable interface (I want my website to speak fluent English, Turkish and Spanish!) and in general, everything will be updated to work faster and better than ever. This is all possible because of our super fast server in Turkey at my disposal.
The new website design is NOT complete enough that I’m confident it will be final, but I really need to release the new site to be online as soon as possible. Not because it’s perfect, but because the current Popodeus.com website is truly horrible in design and has been a temporary solution all the time.
Many have asked about the Snuggly Diary Analyzer which I used to have online before, if it will ever come back again. And I have good news for you. Yes! The previous Snuggly disappeared during the last server crash, and I decided to abandon the old and slow v1.0 code and focus on 2.0 instead.
Right now I would estimate it’s working quite well with my own test files I’ve tried with so far, but there are still a few things to fix before I can launch it for public use.
Snuggly version 2.0 will display you two graphs. One resembles the old one in many ways and shows raw counts of interactions per week and a summary total. The other image wasn’t available in the previous version. It’s a scatter plot (or a bubble chart) to give you a handy overview of when you interacted with who.
Right now the the only problems I have so far is with fine-tuning the visuals, and trying to make a “messy” graph look “clean”.
I’ve made literally hundreds of test charts and haven’t come up with anything that I am truly happy with yet. In the next couple of days creating a good base look will be the focus of my efforts. Later on, you as the end user will have the possibility to select a style from multiple options. For an initial version 2.0, maybe we can have a public beta release this weekend, who knows!
Start copying your Popmundo diaries into a text file, you may soon need that, so better be prepared! :P
