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Clicky discussion forums are live, get your chat on
I posted a message on the dashboard yesterday but thought I should post something on here too for all of our RSS readers who don't stop by too often.
We have just launched our discussion forums, which we hope provide a better sense of community, as well as create an established, searchable database of help and feature request topics for future generations to peruse when in need. So stop by and chat with other Clicky users if you'd like :)
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Help translate Clicky into your language
The number one requested feature we get is to localize our service, and I'm just pleased as punch to announce that as of today, our localization framework is in place.
We have witnessed the success of other services who used a crowd-sourcing model to localize their web sites (Netvibes and Facebook, for example). We recognize the power of this model and have taken the same approach. Anyone with a Clicky account can submit their own translations for any language we offer (8 of them to start off with), or vote upon the translations submitted by others.
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The new Clicky is good to go
It's alive! I was going to write this nice long blog post all about everything new, but I'm dead tired and need sleep. So I'm just copy/pasting my development notes into here, which was also kind of my rough draft for this post I had all planned in my head. We'll have an official press release pretty soon that will be more along the lines of what I wanted to post here, including some pics. This post is really long, but very detailed also. If you want to know everything that's new, you should read it.
All site IDs below 15,000 or so won't be ready until about 10PM USA PST on Saturday, because that server is HUGE. So big in fact that if we didn't cut out some of the really old history, we'd be here for almost twice as long. Visitor and action data more than 6 months old got the axe. Sorry, but it had to be done, and we estimate we saved more than 24 hours with this measure. 6 months has always been our official history length anyways, but this is the first time we've had to enforce it.
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A year ago today...
How many of you remember this logo? It's what I managed to whip up in Photoshop when Clicky launched a year ago today at clicky.roxr.net. It was only 6 weeks in the making at that point and rather scant for features, but one thing we did well from the beginning was showing you every visitor to your site and every action by said visitors. People loved that, and even today, there are still very few affordable products on the market that show you that level of detail per visitor. This remains one of our biggest selling points for a majority of people.
In one year's time, we've had 20,000 sites register on getclicky.com, and tracked almost 600 million clicks for those sites. We've partnered with Performancing and FreeWebs to bring our product to their userbase of 40,000+ and 17,000,000+, respectively. (Plus one other company with over 150,000 users, but that has not launched yet so I can't talk about it). We've had 4 buyout offers - 2 laughable, 2 reasonable - but we turned all of them down. Hard to believe there's still only two of us running this thing. At this rate, that's likely to change soon.
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The new Clicky dashboard
The new Clicky Dashboard is designed to quickly and efficiently show you the traffic data that you care about. It is full of live refresh fun (many thanks to the jQuery JavaScript library), and includes the ability to drag and drop the modules to wherever you want on the screen. They'll stay there forever until you move them again.
The screenshot above shows a number of modules from the Dashboard. Take the 'Links' one for example. It shows your top 5 incoming links by default, but also allows you to view outgoing links and top incoming domains simply by clicking the appropriate link. Only that module is updated when you click items, making the dashboard very fast and efficient at getting the data you want.