Stats, settings, bits and pieces

A fair few changes dropping on a regular basis. it's likely nobody besides me even realises how many micro-changes hit every day, I probably commit roughly 6-12 times a day to the production tree, although only a few of those result in user-visible changes.

Anyway, the latest major one to drop in yesterday was the new stats screen:



We introduced some new numbers, specifically the organic clicks, and fixed the term at 30 days - the 7 day chart was just silly. More importantly however was the explanation I added next to each chart, explaining what it is and how you can improve your numbers. I think this is something that's often missed - places provide you with piles of numbers but no good information on what you can reasonably do about them.

I've added another control to the Advert settings page, granting people control over whether they want to auto-accept previously approved entrecards. The system is pretty much flawless, in the sense that if you've approved it before, there's little reason not to again, however part of our mission is to ensure control remains in the hands of the site owner so having the switch there is important, and we defaulted it to "off" so it won't auto-accept unless you ask it to.

A few other bits and pieces around the place, fixes, nailed one of the cookie bugs which sorted the last two no-drop cases I'm aware of which is great.

In case nobody noticed, I also managed to finally stab that weird firefox rendering error to death. For those who were curious, it turns out that despite happily displaying block-level elements inside an "a href", firefox occasionally fails to render the contents properly. However, if you use span tags instead, but use CSS to change their display mode to block..it works fine. Nutty.