Vincent Ritter

🤓 Dev diaries

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tinylytics

analytics for small websites

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shoutouts

A place for everything you love, like or want to shout out about on your website.

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Recent posts

I've got the tinylytics webring functionality built into my site and it works a treat.

Will get documentation into place tomorrow or Wednesday, or feel free to poke at the HTML 😉

Thank you all for submitting your sites so far (I've added them all) ✌️❤️

Introducing the Tinylytics Webring

This morning I worked on adding webring functionality to tinylytics and any site that’s active can opt in.

I wanted to add another fun little side thing and teased about this a few weeks ago… and here we go.

It’s basic right now and works very similar to everything you’re used to already (kudos, hit counter, etc).

Getting started is easy, just go to your site settings (select “edit…”) and then scroll to the Webring section. Tick the box and save. And that’s all there is to it.

That’ll trigger an email to myself to review the site and then allow it to show up in the webring.

It’s limited to personal sites only, so I won’t be able to accept any business websites, or service sites (like tinylytics, shoutouts and others).

It’s very important that sites are vetted to avoid abuse of this feature, and to avoid gaming the system.

Just want to keep it fun and light.

This feature just rolled out, and there is no documented way of surfacing the webring just yet on your site. That’s by design as I want to get a few sites up and running first so that we have a good sample size.

Later this week I’ll document how to get a random site shown from the webring.

It’s designed to be super light and fast, so it’ll always just get one randomly selected site to link to, and that’s it.

Here’s to random encounters. They make the world go around ❤️

Some quick tweaks to tinylytics this morning:

  • Tidied up the sites header area, which now includes a little info dropdown. Not so cluttered anymore. They link to the relevant setting section.
  • Added setting sections when editing the site so things are easier to find.

Ah yes, got the Paddle payout this morning 🥳

Oh and of course they charged me the "$15 SWIFT" fee which is only applicable in "some" countries. Go figure.

Yay, I can see 2 payouts from Paddle! Hopefully arriving tomorrow. Nice.

Just shipped one of the best features for tinylytics. But only for paid plans... nah, just kidding.

Some quick tweaks to tinylytics this morning:

  • Fixed the dropdown arrow, when viewing a site, in dark mode. No longer is it camouflaged.
  • Hotkeys: "s" to go to sites. When on a site, fly through stats (1), kudos (2) and uptime (3). "e" to edit. "a" to create a new site.

I've added a quick site switcher to tinylytics this morning. Helpful if you have a lot of sites and want to switch between them. Also includes a slightly tweaked nav area. Slowly working on getting the UI in shape also within the next few weeks and polish it.

Thank you all, again, for signing up to tinylytics. I was supposed to send a newsletter last Friday, considering it was the last one of the month… and now it’s Friday the 1st… and I don’t have anything prepared 😂

Sign up here if you’re interested and you can find the last two there also ✌️

Really hoping to see a "payout in-progress" tomorrow from the folks at Paddle for tinylytics. Knowing my luck though recently... maybe I am just dreaming it to come true.

Maybe I can apply my Reiki skills somewhere here? Power of the mind 😋