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Forums - Sales - Why not adding a weekly numbers upload process bar?

Well, I'm sure that alot of people here now know when NA's, EMEAA's and Japan's weekly numbers are uploaded (approximately), and it generally goes this way, EMEAA then NA and finally Japan, eventhough sometimes it doesn't happen for X reasons and ioi is human after all. =D

What I want to talk about here is about adding a bar for each area, in a small info window to the website (at least to VGChartz, not the whole VGC if overall presentation have to be changed) with some color rules.

- A first color, let's say "grey", when nothing is ready to be uploaded, it would also mean that the data currently displayed is from last week.

- Another color (let's say "orange") if the upload is approx in the next 24 hours or the current day (may not be that important).

- A new color (let's say "red") when the data upload is really close (like 1/2 hours before).

- Finally the color would be "green" if the area it's linked to is uploaded, when each bar become green (which means everything is there) the color would go back to grey the next day, until next week numbers.

I thought about that because I'm losing alot of time checking here for weekly numbers and I think i'm not the only one. Obviously people who don't care for weekly sales, are for sure not interested in this. If any of you have another idea say it. And if it asks too much effort then forget about this idea admins. (it may also reduce website views x)). :P

So what do you guys think?



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Such an indicator wouldn't fix your problem - you would check the site just as often normally, and when it showed numbers were going to be up soon you would check more frequently, so more total time 'wasted'.

The site makes money from the extra pageviews checking for numbers leads to, so notification is unlikely.



Meh, I don't think it'll change much anyway, you can just pop on periodically on Thurs night/friday/saturday just to check the front page to see whether the numbers are up anyway, would end up doing the same to check whether the bar is changing colour too :p



Disconnect and self destruct, one bullet a time.

They like changing it up, if force you to hit the site 100 times instead of 10... more traffic is good for the site from a business perspective.



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Nah, just a red banner that appears when something happens would be good.



 

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I like your idea Seece



It's fine the way it is.



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Riot Of The Blood said:

It's fine the way it is.


Daphne Rosen.



 

palancas7 said:
Riot Of The Blood said:

It's fine the way it is.


Daphne Rosen.


Something tell me I should google Daphne Rosen.  I should probably be pantsless when I do it.

OT:  I don't think such an option as suggested by the OP is even possible at this time.  That's not how VGChartz data collection works--if I understand what he's asking, correctly.