Blog Rating Top 50.ru: development

Top 50 blogs - new rating of posts and blogs of the RuNet. As planned, it should be a substitute for a rating from Yandex after its final closure.



Let me remind you: on November 3rd of this year, the developers of the Yandex.Blogs service announced the closure of the rating of entries, while opening the API. From Yandex, the top will be completely removed in December.



The announcement of the first version of the Top 50.ru has already been published on Habré. The reaction of Habravchan was generally negative, despite this I decided not to give up and continue the development of the project, and took it as a test for "lousiness", especially this feedback was largely my fault: it gave the court absolutely raw service to the public, hastily wrote a post in a semi-playful semi-stupid form.

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Over the past week and a half, the project has undergone many positive changes:

- Added new interesting features;

- the lion's share of the code has been completely rewritten;

- a plan for further development.



Further about all this in order and how the project got to the pages of Vesti.ru.

Improvements

What is the most important thing in the ranking? That's right, quality ranking. In the beginning, the Top 50 did not do well with this, as the habravchane wrote about. Since the launch, the algorithm has changed several times and now, we can safely say: relevance is comparable to Yandex. However, this does not mean that the records are sorted as well, it means that the most interesting and relevant is in the top.



In addition to improving the consolidated rating, all the others were also refined: by commentators, by links, by comments, by attendance. The changes are related to checking the relevance of information: for example, if five new comments appeared in a post three years ago, this does not mean that the topic is relevant.



There was a very convenient summary table posts . With the ability to sort by all indicators. Gives a general idea of ​​the current state of the blogosphere. The construction is slightly different from the lists, for some tasks it can be very useful.





Blog rating made. About him as a missing opportunity, mentioned in the comments to the last post on Habré. At the moment it is identical to Yandex, but soon it is planned to remake it. You will be the first to know about it :)



A few minor improvements:

- added service icons;

- A prominently placed link to RSS;

- the Reforma widget has been installed;

- fixed layout and RSS errors;

- other little things that now do not even remember.



For the lazy, a new super-short domain has appeared: T-50.ru



The technological part has also undergone many changes. Most of the code was rewritten, a micro framework was formed (the bicycle is justified by maximizing performance). Thanks to the new core of the system of adding new types of ratings at times easier and faster.



It is worth noting another significant aspect: all the data received by the robot through the API is stored in the archive, due to this in the future it will be possible to make a system of analytics of the blogosphere.



The service is still extremely fast.

Progress

After the publication on Habré about Top-50 wrote in many blogs. There was a post on Roem.ru, and after him, you would not believe, Vesti.ru was mentioned about the service.



Every day, an average of three hundred visitors come to the Top-50. I really hope that this number will only grow :)

What's next?

I devote all my free time from full time to the Top 50, still not giving up and will continue to develop the project. There is a whole list of interesting features that I would like to realize, but time, alas, is not rubber.



Here are just the most important things from what was planned: analytics of the blogosphere, various ways of presenting the rating of blogs, complete redesign, notification of blogs with the help of comments about getting into the consolidated top. Habr will be the first to know about all significant innovations.



Dear habravchane, I really need your help. Service is done for users, and users are you. Offer any features that will be personally useful to you. Criticize those that are now, not forgetting the arguments.



I look forward to hearing from you any comments and suggestions in the comments to this post, in my habraposhta, by email. mail mail@top-50.ru, through the service Reformal .