Live now! New features for your Network Leaderboards

[Nick Barr]

It's been a little over a week since we launched Leaderboards for your Ning Networks. Since then, we've been busy working on several new features to make your Network Leaderboards even more powerful. Many of these come straight out of the requests you made on Ning Creators — Thanks for your feedback!

Here's a quick-and-dirty rundown of everything that's going out today:

• Every Leaderboard page now has a Text Box — this is perfect for adding more context, like explaining the rules for a contest you're running.

• You can grab an RSS feed for every Leaderboard page. Great for adding them to another site, or for creating a custom widget.
• We introduced a drag-n-drop interface for the Leaderboards landing page, giving you more control over the layout.
• 2 new display options for your Leaderboards: You can hide the Network Creator and Admins, and you can hide members and content you've already featured. Up to you whether to hide these, or leave them as is.
• Group discussions are now counted in the Top Discussions Leaderboard.
• Share links now appear at the bottom of every Leaderboard Page.
• We made some optimizations to improve how members and content appear. Specifically, inactive members shouldn't show up and new members and content shouldn't spike as rapidly.
• We went ahead and made "popularity" sorts consistent with your Leaderboards across different features.
  

And that's it! Hope these improvements help make Leaderboards an even more compelling part of your network's social experience. 

[Patrick Chappelle]

Thank you kindly Nick!

[The PL Team (d&e)]

NICK, IM ON MY WAY TO HUG YOU.

[Brian]

Good job guys. Thanks to the dev team as well!

[Alex Hart]

Excellent news.

[Peter Harper]

Looking good :)

[celina[D]]

Great additions that can be very useful
However my statistics still don't even come close to the real figures
It depicts top members today just because they have their birthday or signed up.
I consider someone a top member only by his/hers activity within the network
Afterall the idea is to have them earn the "title" of top member in order to stimulate them

What I am really wondering about is how Ning comes to putting someone or something into the top whatever
What are the criteria?

[Eric Suesz]

Hi, cellina[D]. If you are seeing a specific error, can you create a new discussion so we can address it?

[celina[D]]

So we get 10 or 20 different discussions on the same subject Eric and you or someone else replies there is already a discussion going on about this? Doesn't make sense to me

[Fitzroy Farquharson]

FIX DI CHAT!!!

[Spyro]

Guys, this is GREAT!!

[J.Pedro Henriques]

Mr Barr,

Could it be possible to explain me why is this happen ?

Both Google Analytics and Tynt are saying otherwise

Thanks in advance

Pedro

[Spyro]

Yes, that looks quite wrong guys, especially if i turn it to "daily" top content

@J.Pedro Henriques I assume the ning algorithm cannot find any top content of the day, week, month so it doesnt display anything.

It would be best to Index all the videos, blog, discussions etc according to their popularity, but always so the Top5

I like the format the when you click on "View All" ...