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Request to change widgets to use "total contributors" instead of "active contributors"
Hi!
The current widgets have an inconsistency. They provide total number of lines of code, estimated value, etc, yet instead of total contributors
, it shows active contributors
.
Robin wrote:
I'm inclined to agree that in the context of a 50-pixel widget with little room to explain things, total
is probably the expectation. I don't know whether anyone would have a cow if we switched from active contributors
to total contributors
in the widget. We have a lot of widgets in the wild now.
What do you think?
Best regards,
M ;-)
Hi Marc,
I've gone ahead and made the change. In all of our widgets, we're going to start displaying the total count of all contributors to the project.
The change won't become active until the next website deployment, and it will require cache expirations to pass, so it might be 24 hours before widgets show the change.
Thanks for pinging this issue, it's a good (and easy :-) ) improvement.
Robin
Hi Marc,
Unfortunately, I have to roll back this change because of increased load on our servers.
I thought this would be a simple one-line change, but it turns out that there are deeper consequences. We don't have the total contributors
value cached in the same way that we do the active contributors
value, and given the literally millions of badges we are serving up, this has serious implications on our servers.
It's not a terribly hard thing to fix, but it will take some time that we simply don't have right now. In the meanwhile, I have to relieve the stress on our system, so I'm rolling back the change.
Thanks,
Robin