Yearly / Monthly personal stats - on the roadmap

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Hey everyone this is a ROADMAP post which means you can vote for ideas that you want to see sooner, this will help shape the future of the site!

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This is kind of an add-on to the Personal Stats but it also encompasses “Year in review” / “TARDIS Guide Wrapped”.

I really wanted to get it done before the end of the year, as it’s a great thing to share and get a boost to the site’s visibility.

But it would also really annoy me if, like Spotify, it didn’t include the whole years stats!

Plus I haven’t had time.

Plus pretty much everyone has joined the site this year, so their stats are less “what you completed this year” and more “you filled in your entire backlog this year”

But going forward, for members who are already up to date, this could be a really fun feature.

Another idea I had is to have a bit that focuses only on stories that were released this year too - that solves the whole backlog thing.

Anyway, this is in progress, hopefully it isn’t too late in January and people still share them.

Oh and I already built a “view stats for every year since 1963” dashboard but haven’t ever released it because it bugged me that it wasn’t completely correct, we need to finish adding every story ever! The road to 10,000 stories…

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Well, I love stats so naturally, I love these Year In Reviews as well. I already look forward to seeing my YIR for 2025!

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Yes this would be an amazing feature, I want it!

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So true :rofl:

I always say yes to a new stat feature!

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Yeah, I’d absolutely love it! More stats!

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MORE STATS MORE STATS MoRE STATS

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More stats are never a bad thing.

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This is a feature which I haven’t yet built for a multitude of reasons. I’ll explain why below, and also how I think I can improve it to hopefully launch it in the future.

Problem: We don’t know if you completed something today, or you filled out your backlog

We are still adding stories to the site all the time, so even if you joined the site right at the beginning, chances are you’ve completed and rated stories recently that you actually completed months or years ago.

Other sites get around this by allowing you to enter the exact date that you completed something. That’s what I’m planning to do. But that would be a lot of work for people to add in all the dates, and who even remembers those dates? (Unless you’ve kept a log).

If there were no more old stories to add to the site going forward then this would fix itself – at least for existing users who have filled everything in already – but there are still lots more stories being added.

So I don’t see an easy way to build a screen that says “here’s everything you completed in 2014” just yet.

Possible Solution: Everything released in 2024?

What we could do is a report on your activity for everything released in 2024. That at least would definitely be pretty accurate, as it wouldn’t include backlog things.

I am considering doing this, as well as a general “here’s how everyone on the site rated 2024’s Whoniverse content”.

Stats by year

Long ago I built a page that let you view stats by year - which stories were released that year, which characters were most popular each year, what were the average ratings each year.

But as I’m still adding content, they didn’t paint a clear enough picture, and I hate having misleading stats, so it’s on the back burner. But once we have everything, it will definitely be a feature I re-launch!

So this is basically to say, yes a “TARDIS Guide Wrapped” is planned for the future but there are issues which mean it can’t be like other sites. Also it will be delayed, as I’ve been busy with other things :blush:

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I think that the best thing is to make it this is how many stories you completed on the site during the last year. It might be a bit off but will get more accurate for every year.

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Is there perhaps a way to ignore stories completed using the “bulk mark complete” function? That could get around the backlog issue for the most part. Also, I feel like at this point new stories getting added are generally niche enough to not skew anyone’s stats too much. Most people don’t even know these stories exist. This is more an issue for new people joining and updating their backlog rather than old stuff being added to the site. Maybe a way to ignore the first week or so on the site? Again, to stop backlog updating interfering with the stats.

Just spitballing here.

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I don’t think that accuracy is the most important thing about this feature. It is to have some fun stat presented in a fun way to share here and on social media.

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I agree that the ‘things released in 2024’ would be better. I’ve ‘completed’ hundreds of stories since joining but most of those have been completed over the last 30+ years!

Maybe it could include the ‘repeats’ because those will be recent.

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Oh yes, everything you do in bulk is marked in the database as having used that feature, so I can eliminate that.

But it originally only existed for TV (it’s now every set), so it’s not that useful in eliminating the problem.

Yes that’s true. Although I think maybe “sharing what you did this year” is usually done in December, which is why other sites do it early (I hate that, it misses stuff out), so not sure how popular it will be to share this in January…

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Letterboxd has the option of ’logging’ a film (which means you’ve watched on that day—or another day, because you can change the date. Then it goes in your diary) or rating a film without logging it (when you’ve watched it before).

I expect it would mean a lot of coding, though.

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Maybe instead of there being a way to set the date, it could be easier to just have the the option to mark something as backlog? So that it could be ignored for things like this

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Agree with @Jae on marking tings as backlog. I too have logged plenty of things completed before, but I don’t always recall when I did that…

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This is something I’m excited about, because I love stats, but they have to be accurate, unlile Spotify Wrapped and other services.

@Jae had an interesting suggestion about backlogs. And the Letterboxd system is also one I like, but it requires a bit of an overhaul, I suspect.

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Yes that’s quite clever but it does add lots of steps to rating a story which I don’t like.

I was actually thinking of how best to do this - maybe set an empty date? Something like that could work.

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I always find the lettboxd ‘date’ thing quite fiddly to use.

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