Awesome things and EM2 release date
First off, a note: We will be releasing EVE Metrics 2 to the public on Thursday.
This means the site will be down for several hours on Thursday as we arduously migrate all the old data (though not market data- we’re starting fresh!), set up the new database backend and test everything. After it comes back up there will be a few changes- notably that the APIs will have moved and changed format. They’re now much more useful, including providing historic data and some other useful bits of info. And they’re documented properly now! There is no web push framework and we’re looking at if we’re going to offer it again or go with an alternative.
The new site features a lot of the features you’re used to, but removes a few. For the time being, regional limiting is not available- however, it’s not as needed in EM2. We’ve redesigned the market UI considerably and it performs a lot better. If you like your graphs, you’ll love EM2- there’s plenty of them, sparklines and full graphs.
Our plan with EM2 is to iteratively add more features incorporating feedback we get from users as we go- hence why this release focuses on making things performant and fast, rather than packing in features aplenty. There will be paid (ISK, of course) versions of EM2 for large scale traders and corporations which will provide more advanced tools, but none of this is in EM2 at release, and we do not intend to make any of the basics cost ISK at any stage, nor will any APIs require payment to use. And one of the best bits about this? We’ll be using the ISK to run competitions for our uploader community, and to reward uploaders with ISK. We’re not doing this at launch because we need to analyse how everything works out in the real world, but uploaders will no longer be credited for getting lots of uploads- they’ll be rewarded for information density of uploads, be it stuff we’ve not seen in a while or stuff that changes often. Uploading the same 10 orders once a day isn’t going to get you a lot of credits- but it won’t get you nothing, either.
What we’re trying to really push and develop is our uploader community. We already have a huge collection of uploaders who regularly upload information to the site, and we’d like to reward them properly in a way that encourages having fresh data in the database for as many items as we can manage. This means anyone who uses the site will be getting better information and more of it, which is of course good. Good data means we can use the data to make more useful tools and provide better statistics.
On the other side of awesome, the song written by Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen for Episode 13 of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse (“Epitaph One”) is out on Amazon- and it’s bloody fantastic. Even if you’re not a Dollhouse fan (and if you’re not, why are you here? Go watch it!), you’ll probably love Remains
And another awesome thing: Makurid, the MMMetrics resident caching/performance tweaking guru, has been applying some extra caching to Charactr- everything’s now a whole lot snappier after a good helping of memcached, so you should be able to enjoy seeing your character list anywhere, faster.
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